GEOG100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Extortion, Natural Disaster, Urban Sprawl

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG100
• Professor: Erin Joakim

Document Summary

Explain population trends and patterns in births (crude birth rate), natural increase and mortality (crude death rate, infant and child mortality rates), fertility and life expectancy in contrasting regions of the world. Explain population momentum and its impact on population projections. Examine the impacts of youthful and ageing populations. Evaluate examples of a pro-natalist policy and an anti-natalist policy. Discuss the causes of migratiodns, both forced and voluntary. Evaluate internal (national) and international migrations in terms of their geographic (socio-economic, political and environmental) impacts at their origins and destinations. Examine gender inequalities in culture, status, education, birth ratios, health, employment, empowerment, life expectancy, family size, migration, legal rights and land tenure. Trend: the general course or prevailing tendency changes over time. Pattern: a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc. , forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement, e. g. differences by country, age, gender. Diffusion: the spread of ideas/disease/technology over time and space.