GEOG-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution
25 Sep 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Leo Ellis
Cultural Geography
Geog-130
Types of Migration
• Forced
Example: Slavery
• Impelled
-Movement where choice is limited(Cases like people fleeing from civil war)
• Free
-Example: 19th century European in search of a better life elsewhere – 70
million in the 19th century alone Benefits?
Limitation’s today: Immigration laws
Illegal
Examples:Mexico/U.S
Population growth Theory:Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
- An essay on the principle population (1798)
- Malthus’s argument
1. Food supply increase- linear
2. Population increase – exponential (Looked at other species growth)
Time Periods:
1. Food > Population
2. 2. Food=Population (where Malthus was)
3. Food < Population
In order to not hit stage 3
A. Preventative “Checks”
on population
Document Summary
Movement where choice is limited(cases like people fleeing from civil war: free. An essay on the principle population (1798) Malthus"s argument: food supply increase- linear, population increase exponential (looked at other species growth) Food=population (where malthus was: food < population. Agricultural population (he didn"t see the increase in food supply. Food supply always remained higher than population, he did not see the industrial revolution) Fertility transition (fertility"s lower than replacement, canada"s population would decline if canada didn"t accept immigrants) 85% more significant usage of contraception driven by publication. Large family (it was the norm to have a large family, as aid programs begin to exist, families diminished: social status, cultural transition. Encourges lower fertility: role of government in affecting fertility. Governments have the ability to alter population in three main ways: increasing/decreasing births via natal policty. Pro natal: incentive to have children (baby bonus payments. Anti-natal: chinas child limitation policy, indias sterilization: decreasing (or increasing) deaths.
