Unit 3 Reading Study Guide
Focus your study of this week's reading on the following concepts:
Chapter 4
- Population growth rate
- Exponential growth
- Demographic transition
- Population histograms
- Malthusian overpopulation
- Population-based resource degradation
- Technological-and-consumption-based resource degradation
- Is reproduction a personal right?
- Reasons for large family size in LDCs
- Sustainable development
- Human carrying capacity
- Overshoot
Chapter 5
- Undernutrition, malnutrition, and overnutrition
- Sustainable agriculture
- Desertification
- Farmland conversion
- Strategies for improving irrigation efficiency
- The Green Revolution
- Genetically engineered (transgenic) crops
- Fertilizer use
- Problems associated with increasing the amount of land under cultivation
Chapter 17
- Obligations to future generations?
|