TERM 1
Demographic transition theory
DEFINITION 1
Pre-industrial stage: High dea th rates and high birth
rates
Transitional stage: Death rat es fall due to rising food
production and better medical care
Industrial stage: Birth rates f all, as women are
employed and as children beco me less economically
useful in an urban setting
Post-industrial stage: Birth and death rates remain low
and stable
TERM 2
Views on population control
DEFINITION 2
Timothy Cline
Director, Population Connectio n (formerly Zero
Population Growth)
Access to reproductive health care, including family
planning, is a basic human r ight.
Douglas Sylva
Senior Fellow, Catholic Family and Human Rights
Institute
For practical and ethical reas ons, the worlds limited
development funds could be be tter spent than in
encouraging further fertility d ecline.
TERM 3
Affluence and the environment
DEFINITION 3
Poverty can lead to environmental degradation
BUT
Wealth and resource consumption can produce
even more severe and far-reaching environmental
impacts
TERM 4
Lower death rates and lower infant mortality
rates are due in large part to
DEFINITION 4
technological advances, improved sanitation, and
better medical care in developed countries.
TERM 5
In 1798, Thomas Malthus argued
DEFINITION 5
if there was no control over population growth, then
the population would come under check because of
war, disease, and starvation.
