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Chapter 09 - Facing the Problems of Overpopulation

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Total Fertility Rate: (TFR)The average number of childeren born to each woman
Nonrenewable Resources:Materials which are not replenished (ex. minerals + fossil fuels)
Renewable Resources:Materials that are replenished in a short period of time (ex. Trees, fish, soil, fresh water)
Consumption:The human use of materials and energy
People Over-Population:Occurs when the enviroment is worsening from too many people
Consumption Overpopulation:Occurs when each individual in a population consumes too large a share of resources
Highly developed nations represent 20% of the world population while they consume ______considerably more than 50% of the world's resouces
I (Env. Impact) = P (#ppl.) * ___ * ___A (Affluence/Amount of Resources Used) * T (Env. effect used to develop product)
Urbanization:The process in which people increasingly move from rural areas to densely populated cities
Urban Heat Island:Cities which are hotter than the surrounding countryside due to paved streets and buildings
Compact Development:A design process where cities are have tall multiple unit buildings close to Public Transport + Workplaces
Age Structure Diagrams -Pyramid (ex. Developing / Mexico), Collumn (ex. Developed / USA), Inverse Pyramid (Dieing Population / Finland)
Prontalists:People who think that the vitality of their region is at risk because of declining birth rates (ex. East Europeans)



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