INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Neofunctionalism, De Jure, Zero Population Growth
Document Summary
The political rights and civil liberties recognized by the international community as inalienable and valid for individuals in all countries by virtue of their humanity. An index that uses life expectancy, literacy, average number of years of schooling and income to assess a country"s performance in providing for its people"s welfare and security. Start at the center and go out towards the margins. Pessimists who warn of the global ecopolitical dangers of uncontrolled population growth. A series of research, and development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s, that increased agriculture production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. One couple replacing themselves on average with two children so that a country"s population will remain stable if this rate prevails. A metaphor, widely used to explain the impact of human behavior on ecological systems, that explains how rational self-interested behavior by individuals may have a destructive, undesirable collective impact.
