SUS AND MOVE Flashcards
study of human
populations.
Demography
The movement of a person or
people from one country, locality, place of
residence, to settle in another; an instance of
this.
Migration
is ability to maintain or support a
process over time.
Sustainability
development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs
Sustainable development
The whole number of people or
inhabitants in a country or region
Population
is the state whereby the human
population rises to an extent exceeding the
carrying capacity of the ecological setting.
Overpopulation
is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates.
Climate change
One of the most important components of globalization
people.
science of population.
Demography
seeks to understand the dynamics of population in terms of birth, migration, aging, as well as death
Global Demography
being considered as the major cause of poverty
overpopulation
ability of individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births.
Family Planning
One-child policy, official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each.
Anti-birth Policies
Modern family planning methods are further categorized into three
short-term methods (the pill, condoms, foaming tablets,etc. long term methods (injectables, implants and IUDs) permanent methods (female and male sterilization)
is an increase in the production of goods and services in an economy.
Economic Improvement
Creating programs to encourage the opening of new businesses.
New Businesses
Building better infrastructure through highway improvements.
Infrastructure
Building a new school or library in a community.
Education
Implementing policies like the giving of incentives for startups
Policies
humans reproduced faster than their ability to produce food.
Malthusian Theory
states that changes in the rate of population growth is a result of industrialization of society.
Demographic Transition Theory
suggests a shift from high fertility/high mortality to low fertility/low mortality, with an intermediate period of rapid growth during which declining fertility rates lag behind declining mortality rates.
Demographic Transition Model
crude birth rates and crude death rates remain close to each other keeping the population relatively level.
pre-industrial stage
however, improvements in health care delivery and medicines, coupled with investments in sanitation and infrastructure, bring a sharp drop in the crude death rates.
urbanizing/industrializing stage
