REM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Flue Gas, Infant Mortality, Environmental Protection
12 Apr 2016
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From the individual to the global environment: the ipat" framework. Aluence (consumption per person) primarily developed world problem. Technology (throughput per unit of consumption) impact of speciic technology depends on various factors. Aluent societies can inance new technologies to ameliorate environmental problem. So increasing levels of technology do not automatically increase environmental impact. Local and regionally: caused by some combination of natural increase (surplus of birth over deaths) and immigration. Globally: it is a result of natural increase alone! First stage- birth rate and death rates luctuate, with some overall increase. Second stage- death rates decline and birth rates stay high. Third stage- birth rate drop to close to replacement levels. Parents depend on children to look after them. Improvements in social power of women and overall standard of living can lead to a decrease in the birth rate. Population-environment links are not a simple one-way street as in:
