GEOG 341 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Demographic Transition, Net Reproduction Rate, One-Child Policy
4 May 2016
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Week 1 is there a population problem: jonathan swift"s essay from 1729: a modest proposal for preventing the. Children of poor people in ireland from being a burden to their parents or. Country, and for making them beneficial to the public . Main arguments: too many poor children on street, solution is to eat them become a delicacy, population: a lively introduction. Demography is defined as the study of human populations: their size, composition, and distribution, as well as the causes and consequences of changes in these characteristics. They grow or decline through the interplay of three demographic processes: birth, death, and migration. The study of population dynamics must begin with fertility. Fertility = number of births that occur to an individual or in a population. Fecundity = the physiological ability of individuals or couples to have children (infecund=inability: max fecundity =15 children per women.
