GEOG 1HA3 Lecture 1: global population - the big picture
3 Mar 2017
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India 1. 25 billion: by 2020 india may surpass china. Annual in(cid:272)rease (cid:894)(cid:1006) or (cid:1007) canada"s e(cid:448)ery single year(cid:895) Where do the 7+ billion people live? (what is where?) What factors underlie this distribution (why there?) What are the implications and consequences of this distribution (why care?) Demography: the study of population: from greek, demos, graphe. Population geography: the study of the spatial components of demography. Where there are a lot of people, there may not be a lot of food imbalance of population and resources. What factors have contributed to these population increases/decreases: significant population changes associated with: first agricultural revolution (12,000 years ago) Mesopotamia (then egypt, india, china & mesoamerica (central. Keys: food production, labour specialization, permanent settlement = population growth: epidemics. Keys: food production, standard of living, declining death rates prior to changes in birth rates = population growth: note: industrialization occurring today in developing world. Distribution: recall the spatial arrangement of geographic phenomena.
