Question: What are the forces that drive and retard population growth? Do healthy, prosperous, populations reproduce faster than poor unhealthy ones?
Answer: This essay seeks to give an overview of some of the forces that drive and retard population growth. These forces include food supply, technological advances, environmental factors such as carrying capacity of land and socio-cultural factors such as health, poverty, urbanisation and their influence on birth and mortality rates. Population theorists like Malthus believed that populations were ultimately limited by their food supply but Boserup suggests that technological change in agriculture has been the driving factor in population growth....(short extract)
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- Subject: Anthropology
- Course: Anthropology
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 65%
- Words: 1729
- Date submitted: February 27, 2009
- Date written: November, 2003
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 835
