CHAPTER 15: POPULATION, GLOBAL INEQUALITY, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
- Account for how the world population has changed over the past 50 years.
- Identify and define the three primary factors that affect the rate of population growth.
- Analyze the components of immigration to understand the crude net migration rate.
- Summarize the impact of population growth.
- Discuss the Malthusian Perspective, the Neo-Malthusian Perspective, and Demographic Transition Theory.
- Explain the stages of the demographic transition theory and how populations rise and fall based on this theory.
- Address world hunger and how it constitutes a social problem.
- Discuss the green revolution and the biotechnological revolution, their potential contribution to relieve world hunger and the problems associated with their resolution.
- Discuss strategies of how fertility can be controlled.
- Analyze the consequences of immigration from both the negative and positive aspects of the argument.
- Discuss the threats to the environment created by environmental degradation.
- Discuss overpopulation and problems facing the environment from the three sociological perspectives.
- Forecast the necessary changes to improve the environment and improve the quality of life for the population of the world.
