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Human Populations and Population Regulation
Environmental Science · Chapter 4 · Section A - 2. Population and Conservation Ecology
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- Carrying capacity; the Malthusian view of over-population and its critique; population growth versus disparate consumption
- Demographic transition: stages and influencing factors
- Exponential (J-shaped) and logistic (S-shaped) growth
- Factors regulating population size: space, food and water, territories, predators, weather and climate, parasites and diseases, disasters, self-regulation
- Human population control: family planning, education, economic growth and women's empowerment