GEOG 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Kuznets Curve, Ecological Footprint, Demographic Transition

• School: UBC
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 410
• Professor: K A R E N A B K K E R

Document Summary

Chapter 2 explores the links between population growth and environmental impacts. Multiple sides of population arguments will be addressed: population as detrimental to the environment, population as a resource for innovation, and population as an effect of underdevelopment rather than a cause. The problem of geometric growth: malthus argued that human population would outgrow resources, and therefore population growth has the greatest influence on the environment. War, disease, and famine are therefore natural limits to population growth: according to malthus, therefore, helping the poor is counterproductive because it allows the population to grow instead of die from disease, starvation, or conflict. Population, development, and environmental impact: neo-malthusians ha(cid:448)e alte(cid:396)ed malthus"s o(cid:396)igi(cid:374)al a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:271)out the (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) population and environmental impact, ehrlich and holdren (1974) tried to account for differences in lifestyle using the i=p*a*t equation, in which. A = affluence (wealthier people tend to consume more resources)