GEOG 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Millennium Development Goals, Demographic Transition, Child Mortality
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Geog 1700 - lecture 13 - part 6. Sub-saharan africa: environmental regions, population regions, cultural regions, political regions, economic and social regions, environmental regions. Desertification could threaten some of africa"s (cid:373)ost (cid:448)alua(cid:271)le agri(cid:272)ultural la(cid:374)d. Some reforestation in niger (in the sahel) Climate change is expected to have a variety of impacts on africa: population regions. Northwestern coast from senegal south to cameroon. Southern africa near the indian ocean coast. Industrial cities of the republic of south asia. Nor high rates of rural to urban migration. Total fertility rates are high, but are expected to decrease as the region proceeds through the demographic transition. The need for child labor is one explanation of higher birth and fertility rates in the region. Child (cid:373)ortality is de(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) (cid:373)ost (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tries i(cid:374) li(cid:374)e (cid:449)ith the mille(cid:374)(cid:374)iu(cid:373) Lagos, nigeria is the largest city in sub-saharan africa. Slum growth is now fastest in africa, where urbanization is accelerating.
