Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Population theories - Resources relationships
- Boserup theory (woman)
- Case study: Mauritius
- De-rocking
- Land made available to grow more crops
- Intercropping between rows of sugar cane
- Ground nut
- Potatoes
- Maize
- Austrian computer modelling system to predict future
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- Tax incentives
- Textile and electronic factories
- Cheap, educated workforce
- Advances in technology will increase food production to keep up with population growth
- Pesticides
- Herbicides
- Fertilisers
- GM crops
- Selective breeding
- Irrigation
- The Green Revolution
- India
- Mexico
- Malthus theory (man)/ neo-malthusians
- Population increases geometrically (1,2,4,8) i.e. population doubles every 25 years
- Food production increased arithmetically (1,2,3,4) i.e. cannot keep up with population growth
- Two checks (to reduce population)
- Positive
- Famine
- War
- Disease
- Preventative
- Abstinence
- Later marriage
- Regulations (e.g. China's one child policy)