ENV222H1 Lecture Notes - Demographic Transition, United Nations Population Fund, Urban Sprawl

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV222H1
• Professor: Matti Siemiatycki

Document Summary

Cunningham, william p. , mary ann cunningham and barbara saigo (2005). Population as a cause: the problem rate of acceleration of total global population; reader 71-72. In worldwatch institute, state of the world 2001. Implications of growth in south, decline in north: global biodiversity is concentrated in the south, near the equator, and so exposed to stress from population growth. societal values re environment: policy options for limiting population growth. 4. 1 legal limits family size; encourage sterilization; provide contraceptives. 4. 2 enhance power of women, social justice in general, eg state-supplied old age security to remove reliance on children. 5. 1 an important problem because of the environmental impact, food supply implications mainstream view in early years of environmental movement, eg fairfield. Osborne, our plundered planet, 1948; and paul ehrlich, the population bomb, 1968. 5. 2 not a problem because technology can solve the environmental impacts, ensure food supply - see john s. dryzek, chapter 3 growth forever: the promethean response in the.