GEO 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Soil Fertility, Resource Consumption, Infant Mortality
18 Sep 2020
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Assess the scope and historical patterns of human population growth. Evaluate how human population, affluence and technology affect the environment. Explain and apply the fundamentals concepts of demography. Describe how wealth and poverty, the status of women, and family planning affect population growth. Demography: the study of the characteristics of human populations. Census: the count of the number of people in a country, region, or city. 1666 first census in canada- initiated by king louis 14th. By census it determines and provides the info of. Takes several years for it to be computed and processed of the info. Not everyone has a home in the country homeless are not accounted. 1-2% margin of error: may not be completed accurately as they are not encouraged. India has introduced biometric census w/ thumb print, iris, Vital records: information about births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and the incidences of certain infectious diseases. Population distribution: most aspects of population is the uneven spatial distribution.
