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I- Our environmental impacts
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P- are the product of our population size
A- times affluence
T- and the technology used to produce the goods and services we consume. |
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| Estimates the relative amount of productive land required to support each of us. |
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encompasses vital statistics about people, such as births, deaths, and where they live, as well as total population size.
(derived from the Greek words demos [people] and graphein [to write or to measure])
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| Ecological Footprint Analysis |
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| Estimating the amount of territory needed to support all your consumption of food, paper, computers, energy, water, and other resources. |
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-The most accessible demographic statistic of fertility
-The number of births in a year per thousand persons
-Statistically "crude" in the sense that it is not adjusted for population characteristics, such as the number of women of reproductive age. |
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| The number of children born to an average woman in a population during her entire reproductive life. |
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| Zero Population Growth (ZPG) |
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| Occurs when births plus immigration in a population just equal deaths plus emigration. |
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| The number of children per couple needed to maintain a stable population. Becuase of early deaths, infertility, and nonreproducing individuals, this is usually about 2.1 children per couple. |
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Crude Death Rates
(AKA Crude Mortality Rates)
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| Are expressed in terms of the number of deaths per thousand persons in any given year. |
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| The average age that a newborn infant can expect to attain in any given society. |
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| the number of nonworking compared with working individuals in a population. |
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| The factors that increase people's desire to have babies. |
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The pattern that goes from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates.
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| Allows couples to determine the number and spacing of their children. |
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| Usually means any method used to reduce births, including celibacy, delayed marriage, contraception, methods that prevent embryo implantation, and induced abortions. |
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