Population Planning and Growth

Question 1

Why study population growth?

Answer 1

1) Generated critical information to understand health implications of population growth

Question 2

What kinds of statistics are studied?

Answer 2

1) Size of population
2) Population distribution
3) Births and deaths
4) Marriages and divorces
5) Health implications
6) Planning for services and resources
7) Environmental protection efforts
8) Planning to control population size, density, etc

Question 3

What is population growth equal to?

Answer 3

birth rate-death rate

Question 4

Determinants of birth:

Answer 4

1) Culture and religion
2) Economics
3) Social change
4) War
5) Politics and policy
6) Health care
7) Technology

Question 5

Determinants of death:

Answer 5

1) Disease, famine
2) Culture and religion
3) Economics
4) Social Change
5) War
6) Health care
7) Technology

Question 6

What are the two kinds of curves related to population growth?

Answer 6

J and S shaped

Question 7

90% of births in the next 25-50 years will be where?

Answer 7

World’s poorest countries

Question 8

What are adverse implications of an increased population?

Answer 8

1) Overcrowding 2) Sanitation 3) Infectious diseases 4) Violence/crime 5)Prostitution 6) HIV/AIDs 7) Children w/o homes, families 8) Death rates

Question 9

Why do some countries face decreases in population?

Answer 9

1) AIDs (Low-income countries)
2) War and famine
3) Reduced fertility

Question 10

Rapidly declining death rates in some areas of the world due to:

Answer 10

1) Vaccinations
2) Reduction in infectious disease
3) Sanitation
4) Clean water
5) Pest control
6) Disease treatment
7) Reductions in warfare and genocide

Question 11

Rapidly declining birth rates in some areas due to:

Answer 11

1) Policies: One child policy and policy support of birth control
2) Changing expectations and norms

Question 12

Nature determinants of carrying capacity:

Answer 12

1) Weather
2) Fertility of land
3) Water

Question 13

Human determinants of carrying capacity:

Answer 13

1) Urbanization
2) Agricultural practices
3) Pollution
4) Resource consumption
5) Technology

Question 14

Malthus’s predictions:

Answer 14

1) World would experience overpopulation and outgrow the food supply, resulting in war, famine and overall destruction
2) Predictions have not come true

Question 15

Paul Erlich said:

Answer 15

1) It is impossible for the population and per capita consumption can grow indefinitely

Question 16

Inequalities in access to water:

Answer 16

1) Poorer countries suffer more pollution
2) Low SES pay 5-10 more per liter than high SES
3) An American’s 5 minute shower uses more water than an average poor person has access to all day

Question 17

Food - and land shortages

Answer 17

Shortages of Arable land

Green revolution dramatically increased food production but also damaged land

Question 18

What is happening in the oceans?

Answer 18

Overfishing

Question 19

Greenhouse effect:

Answer 19

Potential or GWP relative to CO2, Carbon dioxide, Fluorinated gases, Methane, nitrous oxide

Question 20

How do humans cause climate change?

Answer 20

1) Atmospheric pollution? Industrial activity, Urban/suburban sprawl & dependence on cars
2) Affluence
3) Waste Disposal

Question 21

What are consequences of climate change?

Answer 21

1) Significant increases and variability in global temperatures
2) Rising oceans
3) More intense storms
4) Heat waves
5) Threats to agriculture
6) More disease carrying insects

Question 22

Consequences of the consequences:

Answer 22

1) Dislocation of major populations
2) Threats to food supply
3) More and or new infectious diseases
4) Political upheavals

Question 23

Kyoto Protocol:

Answer 23

1) Mandatory (country specific) reductions in greenhouse emissions 2) 2006, 121 countries participated, covering a majority of emissions

Question 24

Copenhagen climate conference (2009)

Answer 24

1) Largely a failure although general statement

Question 25

Barriers to population control

Answer 25

1) Political
2) Economic value of children
3) Cultural/religious
4) Personal
5) Restrictions on individual liberty