Integrative Biology 102: Lecture Outline

Human Population Dynamics

Lecture Objectives

By the end of the lecture (and reading the online text), you should be able to:
  1. graph human population growth over time.
  2. list factors important in changing population growth rates.
  3. analyze how population pyramids can predict future population growth. 
  4. explain why the carrying capacity of the earth for human populations has changed.
  5. list factors that affect population growth and explain how these factors affect growth.
  6. summarize different worldviews of how human population growth can be controlled.

Reading:  Ch. 7
Terms
  • ethic carrying capacity
  • cultural cc
  • population pyramid
  • pronatalist pressures
  •  demographics
                                 

Sites
PBS: NOVA:  World in the Balance--Population Campaigns
Scientific American, June 2009, Population and Sustainability
World City Population Density
Population Press
U.S. Population Clock Projections
Population Connection:  Education and Action for a Better World
Negative Population Growth
United Nations Population Fund: State of the World Population 2008

Movies
Our Overpopulated World
The Human Overpopulation Crisis
Population and Environment
The world as a village of 1000
The world as a village of 100
State of the World Population Report
1.   Human population growth (movie shown in class) through the years










2.  Where growth is occurring










3.  Factors affecting growth













4.  Carrying Capacity?







5.  Controlling population growth













For the next lecture on Plant Structures for Capturing Energy & Matter, read pages 37 (starting at Roots) to page 44 (ending at Vegetables: Edible Plant Organs) in Levetin & McMahon Chapter 3.  Be ready to answer these questions in lecture: