BIOL150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Socialized Medicine, Birth Rate, Doubling Time
5 Nov 2017
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An area if geography concentration in (spatial implications) Population geography: total numbers and composition, distributions and movement limits and controls, trends and patterns, policies and policy outcomes, past future of human population. Tools of population geographers: demographic data, maps, politics, representation, what data (cid:272)ou(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat data does(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t is a politi(cid:272)al question, taxes. Future population = current population + (births-deaths) + (immigrants-emigrants: births deaths, natural increase, 0. 03% in canada. Immigrants-emigrants: net immigration (migration, net flow, no net flow causes a down flow in population which is detrimental to economy, 0. 9% Birth fertility rate (cbr: births/year/100 people. The total fertility rate (tfr: average number of children a woman will have. Doubling time: the time needed for a population to double in size. Population dynamics and processes: death (mortality) rates: world crude rates, russia has 11-15 deaths but its not a developing country, suicide by alcohol, alcohol consumption is ridiculously high, if you live in russia relative to.
