GEOS2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Kuznets Curve, One-Child Policy, Ecological Footprint
29 Nov 2018
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Exponential population growth does not match with the biophysical constraints of resources. Population growth = more people = more ideas for solutions to environmental crisis. Population is not the primary driver for environmental crisis. Geometric or exponential population growth vs. arithmetic or linear natural resources. Famine, war) disrupt the exponential growth (periods of demographic crisis and correction) stabilise rate of growth. Initiative to match population growth and amount of natural resources: resulted in social issues, distribution of resources, gender inequality. Models that explain the relationship between environmental change and population. Ipat: population remains one of the main driving forces, though not the only one, affluence (measured by gdp, technology can offset the environmental impacts resulted from rapid population growth. Environmental kuznets curve: forest transition theory: deforestation urbanisation and globalisation people outmigrate leave the lands fallow forests grow. Carrying capacity: relationship between population vs. natural resources, assuming a particular lifestyle, consider the biosphere limits.
