ISS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Amartya Sen, Ester Boserup, Demographic Transition
1 Jul 2016
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Demography: statistical study of the characteristics of human populations, and how they change over time. Population density: average number of people per km. Death and birth rate: number of births/deaths per 1000 people per year. Fertility rate: average number of children per women. Population to increase exponentially; food production arithmetically. Wars, famine and disease are natural limits to growth. The poor bad managers of time and money and given to irrational procreation. Moral code of self-restraint to avoid resource crisis. Relationship between population, economic development and environmental impacts. Assumed scarcity of resources nature and rapacity of population growth. Population= # of people in a group. Affluence= per capita gdp or level of consumption of the population. Technology= methods available to produce these products. Carrying capacity: theoretical limit of population that an area can sustain over an indeterminate amount of time, assuming a particular lifestyle. Population as a straw man considering one dimension thing to explore to explain complex issue.
