GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Agricultural Productivity
4 Feb 2017
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Lecture 7 - theories & consequences of population change. An essay on the principle of population (1798) Malthus" argument: food supply increases in a linear fashion, population increases in an exponential fashion. Time periods: food > population, food = population, food < population (concerning) What to do: preventative checks on population (controlled fertility, positive checks on population (war, famine ,drought aka death) He didn"t know about the industrial revolution, it brought in the means for massive food production. Contraception (he didn"t foresee what would happen in the 19th century, people chose to have less children because they didn"t need them) Fertility transition: a model to explain changes in population due to social/cultural and economic processes that affect levels of fertility. More developed world: 19th & early 20th century. Less developed /developing world: late 20th century and today. Comparable rates to more developed world: role of public health/family planning education. Social status of women: greater empowerment over fertility.
