Topic 8 Flashcards
The human population rate is growing at an
Exponential curve
Human development index (HDI)
Measurement of the well being of a country. Combines health wealth and education
Why do ppl have large families
High mortality rates
Economic asset
Status of women
How to reduce family size
Education
Improve health
Contraceptives and family counseling
Stage 1 high stationary
High birth rates and infant mortality rates
Culture encouraging big families
Bad health
Stage 2 early expanding LEDC
Death rate drops as salinization and food improves
Disease reduced
Still high birth rates
Less mortality
Stage three late expanding wealthy LEDC
Drop in BR
better health education and status of women
Stage4 low stationary
Low BR/DR
industrialized
Stable
Stage 5 declining MEDC
Population won’t be replaced
Expanding stage 1
High BR & rapid decline
Expanding stage 2
Triangle
Stationary stage 3
Half oval
Contracting stage 4
Circle
Recyclable resources
Steel aluminum iron
How to encourage sustainability
Ecological land use, sustainable material cycles,
Dynamic natural capital
Depends on society
Use valuation capital
Can put price on
Non use valuation capital
Impossible to put a price on
Why it’s hard to determine human carrying capacity
We use so many resources
Substitute resources
Importation
Types of solid domestic waste
Plastic, textiles, glass, metal
