GEOG 10160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Total Fertility Rate, Gapminder Foundation, Dependency Ratio
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Environmental issues must always be understood in the context of human population and human population dynamics. Age and gender characteristics, income and consumption, movement and growth of population are influenced by and influence environmental change. Environmental impact equation; links environmental impact directly to population size, level of affluence and the level of technology used by a population. In this exercise your table will examine global variability in each of these parameters and how they relate to examples of environmental degradation. Examining global population and the rate of natural increase. In our last class meeting you were introduced to gapminder as a means of exploring the relationships between various environmental parameters. In this portion of the exercise you will review your findings on regional variations in cbr, cdr and population growth rate and total fertility rate. Identify three countries in each of the regions listed below. List your countries in the first table below.