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Objectives for this Chapter
• A student reading this chapter will be able to: – 1. Define the attributes of populations including
birth and death rates, growth rate, density, and mobility (immigration and emigration).
– 2. Calculate rate of natural increase from birth and death rates, and mathematically demonstrate the effects of age-sex composition on a population.
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– 3. Define biotic potential and maximum growth rate, and list the various limits to growth
– 4. Identify, list, and explain the population growth forms.
– 5. Recognize and explain the concept of population explosion with respect to complete and incomplete demographic transition. Define population implosion and discuss the conditions that lead to this phenomena.
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Objectives for this Chapter
– 6. Explain the role of urbanization in influencing sustainability of populations.
– 7. Explain global population projections and differentiate between developed and lesser developed countries with respect to those projections.
– 8. List and discuss the various options for fertility control methods, while contrasting the effectiveness, risks, and benefits of each type.
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HUMAN POPULATION INTRODUCTION
– Understanding the dynamics of human populations is a first order of business in beginning the study of environmental health.
– There is growing realization that surging populations, environmental degradation, and ethnic conflict are strongly intertwined.
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LESSER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
– Overpopulation, infectious disease, unprovoked crime, few resources, and the influx of more refugees, increases the erosion of nation-states leading to the empowerment of private armies, security firms and international drug cartels.
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LESSER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
– This is a vision of the early 21st century in many parts of the lesser developed countries (LDCs), and threatens to expand along with the growth of human populations.
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
• Species – A species is normally considered to be a group
of organisms that can breed together with the production of a viable and fertile offspring.
– Different species not only have differing physical attributes, but they also differ in the population characteristics.
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Population
– A population is considered to be the breeding group for an organism.
– Each population has characteristics that help to identify it.
– Some of these characteristics are birth rate, death rate, rate of natural increase, age distribution, and sex ratio.
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Birth Rate
– Birth rate refers to the number of individuals added to a population through reproduction (live births) and is normally expressed as the number of live births per 1,000 population (counting the population at the midpoint of the year)(Fig. 2-1).
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Death Rate
– Death rate is also similarly calculated using total deaths divided by the mid-year total population (Fig. 2-1).
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Rate of Natural Increase
– The rate of natural increase is determined by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate (Fig. 2-1).
– The rate of natural increase reflects the growth rate in which migration is not considered.
– The growth of a population in the absence of migration must depend on the birth rate being higher than the death rate.
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Fig. 2-1
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Age Distribution
– The age-sex composition of the population has a profound effect on the birth and death rates of a country because the probability of dying or giving birth within any given year depends upon the age and sex of the population members Fig. 2-2.
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Age Distribution (Fig. 2-2)
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
• Total Fertility Rates – Total fertility rates(TFR) represent the number
of children a woman in a given population is likely to bear during her reproductive lifetime providing that birth rates remain constant for at least a generation.
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
• Immigration – In nature, when the density of organisms
becomes too great, the intense competition for food, water, and other resources damages the entire population. Some species have the ability to disperse or migrate out of the area and in doing so, temporarily relieve the overcrowding.
– This process is called emigration.
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Immigration
– When species emigrate from an area, they must immigrate or enter into another area.
– Driven by natural disasters, war, disease, and disappearing resources, the numbers of refugees worldwide may exceed 15 million, with about 880,000 to 1.4 million immigrants entering the United States each year, including more than 200,000 who enter illegally.
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
– There are periodic upsurges in many populations that lead to overwhelming numbers.
– Whether these population explosions occur in rabbits, lemmings, soldier ants, or locusts, there is always some natural pressures that bring the population back into balance with their natural surroundings.
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
• Biotic Potential – The unrestricted growth of populations
resulting in the maximum growth rate for a particular population is called its biotic potential.
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
– The biotic potential of species differs markedly and is influenced by: (1) the frequency of reproduction; (2) the total number of times the organism reproduces; (3) the number of offspring from each reproductive cycle; and (4) the age at which reproduction starts.
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
• Environmental Resistance – Environmental resistance refers to those
pressures that limit population and may include such factors as disease, wars, predatory behavior, toxic waste accumulation, or species competition (Fig. 2-3).
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Fig 2-3
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
– By plating bacteria as outlined in figure 2-4, one can examine and then plot a bacterial growth curve (Fig. 2-5).
• Lag Phase – The initial part of the curve in which the
organisms show no increase in growth rate, but are preparing for the exponential growth phase which follows.
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Fig. 2-4
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Fig. 2-5
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Fig. 2-6
– If an organism grows too rapidly and the population escalates beyond the carrying capacity of the environment in which it is located, a “J” type growth curve may develop (Fig. 2-6).
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
– This behavior sometimes oscillates every few years as in the case of lemmings that inhabit the arctic tundra north of the Canadian forest.
– Every 3 to 4 years the population explodes, then crashes the following year, followed by a 2 year cycle of slow recovery (Fig 2-7).
– Figure 2.8 shows the effects of predators on populations.
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Fig. 2-7
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Fig. 2-8
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
• k-Strategy (type I”) – When large organisms with relatively long life
spans have only a few offspring, but devote their energies to protecting and nurturing the offspring to enhance their individual survival until they can reproduce (Fig.2-9).
– Density dependent factors include such items as food supply, which becomes more limiting as the size of the population grows.
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POPULATIONS DYNAMICS • r-Strategy
– r-strategy populations are typically small, short-lived organisms, which produce large numbers of offspring and receive little or no parental care (Fig. 2-9).
– These organisms are limited by density-independent factors such as a drought that dries up a pond, or sudden climactic changes such as El nino which alters the temperature of the water making it uninhabitable for certain species.
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Fig. 2-9Adapted from Turk & Turk. 7
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POPULATION TRENDS IN THE WORLD
– Demographers use the information on population size, fertility rates, migration, birth and death rates, growth rates, infant mortality, density, age-sex composition and other factors to statistically characterize human populations.
– Their purpose is to predict what will happen to that population over time.
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POPULATION TRENDS IN THE WORLD
• Historical Trends – After earth’s temperature stabilized about
10,000 years ago, humans began to domesticate animals and cultivate crops, this allowed the human population to increase (Fig. 2-10).
– Since then, the world growth rate has increased dramatically, although we are currently experiencing a downward trend (Fig 2.11).
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Fig. 2-10Adapted from Turk & Turk. 7
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Fig. 2-11
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Historical Trends
• Growth Rate – The rate of births is the ratio of births to the
population, and death rates represent the ratio of deaths to the population.
– Growth rate is then determined by the birth rate minus the death rate.
– The population has grown so much, that even the smaller growth rates lead to additions of larger numbers of people to the global population (Fig 2-12).
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Fig. 2-12
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Historical Trends
• Doubling Time – Another useful way to demonstrate growth rate
is to present it as doubling time (Fig. 2-13), or the number of years for a human population to double its size. The doubling time can be calculated according to the following relationship:
doubling time = 0.70 / growth rate
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Fig. 2-13
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Historical Trends
• Demographic Transition – Developed countries have exhibited slowly declining
birth and death rates over the last century. – This has resulted in a diminishing difference between
birth rates and death rates and a very low rate of natural increase resulting in a stable population with very long doubling times (Fig. 2-14).
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Fig. 2-14 Adapted from United nations Population Fund. 3
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Historical Trends
• Incomplete Demographic Transition – LDCs do not have the resources to institute
social security, and have unstable policies that fail to capture the trust of its citizens.
– The populations had remained stable with high birth rates and high death rates.
– Developed countries introduced better sanitation and nutrition to LDCs, resulting in a decrease of the death rate (Fig. 2-15).
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Fig. 2-15Adapted from United nations Population Fund. 3
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Current Population Trends
– The world’s population is growing at a rate of 1.4 percent annually and is expected to reach six billion people by the middle of 1999
– Almost 98 percent of the annual increase in the world’s population is occurring in the LDCs.
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Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
• Declines in Fertility – In 1970 there were 19 countries reporting
declining fertility rates while in 1997 over 57 countries have reported below-replacement fertility rates.
– By the year 2060, Europe will have lost almost 25 percent of its population.
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Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
• Concerns About Decline – There is a concern throughout Europe and
Japan that the declining population will result in decreasing house and land prices as the demand declines along with the population.
– In the southern island of Kyushu, Japan, officials are offering a gift of $5,000 to parents who have a fourth or subsequent child.
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Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
• Concerns About Decline – Higher education for women with new
aspirations and higher incomes, is considered to be a factor for declining fertility rates in many countries.
– In fact, as illiteracy among women decreases in a country, the average number of children born to those women declines (Fig. 2-16).
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Fig. 2-16
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Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
• Fertility Rates in the United States – The replacement TFR level for most countries
is accepted as being 2.1. – Subtle changes in social attitude appeared to
produce rather significant changes in fertility rates (Fig. 2-17).
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Fig. 2-17Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
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Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
• Immigration and the Changing Racial Landscape in the United States – Although the TFR has remained below replacement
levels, immigration adds at least another 850,000 to 1.2 million people to the United States each year.
– The expanding population of elderly white will be expecting support from a working population of tremendous diversity and proportionally fewer workers per retiree (Fig. 2-18).
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Fig. 2-18
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Current Population Trends in the Less Developed Countries
– More than 80 percent of the world lives in the LDCs.
– In the next 20 years 1.76 billion children will be born in the LDCs (Fig. 2-19).
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Fig. 2-19Adapted from Population reference Bureau 2and the United Nations Population Fund.3
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Predicted Future Trends in Populations
– The median or best estimate by the United Nations is that the world population will stabilize at 11.5 billion people around the year 2150 if the world fertility rate drops to 2.06 and life expectancy is 85 years (Fig.2-20).
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Fig. 2-20Adapted from Doyle18 and Motavallui.19
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Urbanization – What is it?
– The mass migration of people to the cities. • Megacities
– Defined as having a population of more than 10 million, will be commonplace by the year 2015, with 9 of the 10 largest cities being in the the developing countries. (Figs.2-21, 22).
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Fig. 2-21Adapted from the Environment.17
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Fig. 2-22. Borders of W. Africa merged by megacities
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Urbanization
• Facilitates the spread of disease. • Potential increase in violence • Environmental degradation
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THE CONTROL OF POPULATION
• Empowerment or Force – Countries attempting to bring population
growth under control without first empowering women and providing effective birth control have often resorted to oppressive population control policies.
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Population Policies in Some Countries
• India – India was the first country to introduce family
planning in 1951, with the rhythm method. • China
– China continues to enforce a one-child policy in the nation’s largest cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
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Family Planning Versus Population Control
• Population Control – Government directed programs that set a policy
for establishing an optimum population size.
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Family Planning Versus Population Control
• Family planning – Population control is in contrast to family
planning programs that are directed at assisting couples in having the number of children they desire regardless of how many.
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METHODS OF FERTILITY CONTROL
• Introduction – Methods that prevent fertilization of the egg are
called contraception. – Methods vary in their risks to health, their
efficacy in preventing pregnancies, ease of use, acceptance, and costs.
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Contraceptive Methods that are Reversible
• Natural Birth Control and Family Planning • Hormonal
– Oral Contraceptives (Fig. 2-23) – Depo-Provera – Norplant (Fig. 2-24)
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Fig. 2-23
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Fig 2-24
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Contraceptive Methods that are Reversible
• Spermicides (Fig. 2-25) • Barrier Methods
– Male Condom (Fig.2-26) – Female Condom (Fig. 2-27), Diaphragms, and
Cervical Caps (Fig. 2-28) • Intrauterine Devices (IUD’s) (Fig. 2-29)
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Fig. 2-25
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Fig. 2-26
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Fig. 2-27
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Fig. 2-28
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Fig. 2-29
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Contraceptive Methods that are Permanent
– Sterilization has become one of the most popular methods for contraception in the United States among married couples who have achieved their desired level of parenthood
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Contraceptive Methods that are Permanent
• Vasectomy – Male sterilization by making an incision on
either side of the scrotum and snipping out a piece of the vas deferens.
• Tubal Ligation – Blocks the entry of eggs into uterus, eggs
released from the ovaries dissolve and are reabsorbed into the body.
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Contraceptive Methods that are Permanent
• Abortion – The medical means of terminating a pregnancy. – Nearly 60 million abortions occur annually on a
worldwide basis. – Abortion can also be safely induced within the
first 9 weeks of pregnancy by administering the drug RU-486.
- LIVING WITH THE EARTH
- Objectives for this Chapter
- Objectives for this Chapter
- Objectives for this Chapter
- LIVING WITH THE EARTH
- LESSER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
- LESSER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
- Population
- Birth Rate
- Death Rate
- Rate of Natural Increase
- Fig. 2-1
- Age Distribution
- Age Distribution (Fig. 2-2)
- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
- Immigration
- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
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- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
- Fig. 2-4
- Fig. 2-5
- Fig. 2-6
- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
- Fig. 2-7
- Fig. 2-8
- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
- POPULATIONS DYNAMICS
- Fig. 2-9
- POPULATION TRENDS IN THE WORLD
- POPULATION TRENDS IN THE WORLD
- Fig. 2-10
- Fig. 2-11
- Historical Trends
- Fig. 2-12
- Historical Trends
- Fig. 2-13
- Historical Trends
- Fig. 2-14
- Historical Trends
- Fig. 2-15
- Current Population Trends
- Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
- Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
- Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
- Fig. 2-16
- Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
- Fig. 2-17
- Population Decreases in the Developed Countries
- Fig. 2-18
- Current Population Trends in the Less Developed Countries
- Fig. 2-19
- Predicted Future Trends in Populations
- Fig. 2-20
- Urbanization – What is it?
- Fig. 2-21
- Fig. 2-22. Borders of W. Africa merged by megacities
- Urbanization
- THE CONTROL OF POPULATION
- Population Policies in Some Countries
- Family Planning Versus Population Control
- Family Planning Versus Population Control
- METHODS OF FERTILITY CONTROL
- Contraceptive Methods that are Reversible
- Fig. 2-23
- Fig 2-24
- Contraceptive Methods that are Reversible
- Fig. 2-25
- Fig. 2-26
- Fig. 2-27
- Fig. 2-28
- Fig. 2-29
- Contraceptive Methods that are Permanent
- Contraceptive Methods that are Permanent
- Contraceptive Methods that are Permanent
