ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Robert Malthus, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Indian Register
Week 8, Lecture 2: Human Population Dynamics
Epidemiologic transition: humans realize importance of sanitization, start living longer
Phase 1 is the world in 1867
Canada Population Projection
● Canada is entering a period of zero natural population increase
● In the absence of international immigration, Canada’s population would begin to decline
by mid-century
● Future population scenaries depend on assumptions about migrant numbers and their
origins (immigrant women from some countries tend to have more children than others)
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Document Summary
Epidemiologic transition: humans realize importance of sanitization, start living longer. Canada is entering a period of zero natural population increase. In the absence of international immigration, canada"s population would begin to decline by mid-century. Future population scenaries depend on assumptions about migrant numbers and their origins (immigrant women from some countries tend to have more children than others) Children of immigrants born in canada (or who come here at young age) tend to have small families, consistent with rest of canadian population. The one exception in canada = aboriginal communities, which typically have high-than- average birth rates. Defined in census as indians, metis, or inuit. The biotic potential for the human species exceeds environmental resistance (forage availability, predation, parasitism,e tc) Birth rates can now exceed death rates. Thomas malthus (1798) argued human populations increase exponentially when food production is plentiful. Human populations inevitably outstrip food supply and eventually collapse.
