GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Demographic Transition, Idiocracy, Thomas Robert Malthus
30 Sep 2020
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Some form of breaking mechanism must necessarily operate to control totally unregulated population growth. One attempt was to summarize historically observed limitations of population growth. The demographic transition model traces the changing levels of human fertility and mortality associated with industrialization and urbanization. As long as births only slightly exceed deaths the population will grow slowly. Was associated with modernizing consequences of industrialization in. Many countries in asia and latin american display characteristics of stage two. Rapidly rising population results form increases in life expectancy. In turn reflects a falling death rate. Birth rates decline as people begin to control family size. A product of urbanization (advantages of many children in agricultural society are not as evident) Bring 15 kids into the city, population will still grow. Many countries register low birthday an death rates. Stage four: very low birthday and death rates. Yields at best only a slight percentage of increase.
