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Demography correct answers The statistical study of the characteristics of human populations, and how they change over time. Population Density correct answers Average number of people per km2 Population Growth correct answers Changes in population over time Death and Birth Rate correct an...

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ISS 310 Exam 2 MSU || Questions and 100% Verified
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Demography correct answers The statistical study of the characteristics of human populations,
and how they change over time.

Population Density correct answers Average number of people per km2

Population Growth correct answers Changes in population over time

Death and Birth Rate correct answers # of births/deaths per 1000 people per year

Fertility Rate correct answers Average # of children per woman

Thomas Malthus (1798) correct answers Ecoscarcity
Population to increase exponentially; food production arithmetically.
War, famine, and disease are natural limits to growth
Welfare for poor is counterproductive-the poor are bad managers of time and money
Moral code of Self-restraint

Neo-Malthusian Arguments correct answers Relationship between population, economic
development, and environmental impacts
Focus on population
Disregard distribution of people and resources
Disregard scale-What's the scale of analysis

Paul Ehrlich (1968) correct answers "Population Bomb"
Assumed scarcity of resources nature and rapacity of population growth.
Blamed the poor and developing world

Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren (1974) IPAT correct answers I= Impact decline of ecosystems,
production of was
P=Population- # of people in a group
A= Affluence- Per capita GDP or level of consumption of the population
T= Technology- Methods available to produce those products

Eugenics (1800's-1940's) correct answers Selective human breeding and forced sterilization and
segregation laws

Population Control Movement (1970's) correct answers Female sterilization

Ester Boserup (1910-1999) correct answers Critiques Malthusian approach
Induced intensification thesis
Population will increase production
Demands lead to technological innovation and increased food production

, Amartya Sen correct answers Attention to ownership and distribution of resources, rather than
availability
Famine is not only produced by shortage, but by social structures, political and economic factors

The Project of Modernity correct answers More food, less people
Demographic transition

Global Population Trends correct answers Attention to birth rates and death rates over time, and
the reasons for the changes

Common Pool Resources correct answers Goods or services characterized by:
difficulty of exclusion, Substractability

Difficulty of Exclusion correct answers It's characteristics make it hard to fully enclose and
partition and to exclude users

Substractability correct answers The degree to which one persons use of a resource diminishes
other's use

Garret Hardin (1968) correct answers Influenced by Malthus
Concerned with overpopulation
A metaphor and a model; a pasture used by herders

"The Prisoner's Dilemma" correct answers A game theory where multiple rational individuals
make decisions in pursuit of their own interest that create collection outcomes non-optimal for
everyone

Commons correct answers Goods or resources whose characteristics make it hard to fully
enclose and partition

Private property correct answers Privatization via enclose of the commons
"Open access" resources must be bounded and given over to individual owners or strong state
management agencies.

Assumptions of the Tragedy of the Commons correct answers Individuals are selfish
Individuals cannot communicate or cooperate with others
There is no social learning
Environmental commons= open access with no rules or norms in place

Criticisms of the Tragedy of the Commons correct answers Total absence of rules= degradation
and destruction
Not all "commons" but an "open access" scenario
Oversimplification
Overgeneration
More than two solutions (coercion and privatization)

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