SOC375 Lecture Notes - Total Fertility Rate, Ecological Footprint, Infant Mortality
23 Dec 2013
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Ecological footprint an estimate for gauging how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes, using prevailing technology. For every year humans occupy earth it takes the earth 1. 5 years to regenerate the damage. Population checks factor that limit population growth ie natural disasters & war. Human carrying capacity - the number of people that can be supported in a given area indefinitely. Also the infant mortality rate- the number of deaths of infants under one year of age: migration the movement of people into or out of a country. The net migration rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a specified year per 1000 people. Demographic transition theory as a result of a modernization, societies eventually progress from being characterized by high fertility and mortality rates to being characterized by low fertility and mortality.
