Egeo209

Study question Quiz 1 Demographic Issues

Introduction

1. Know the definition of Geography.
2. What are the 5 themes of Human Geography?  Be able to give examples.
3. How might population change effect themes 2, 3, 4 and 5?  Be able to give or identify examples.

Demographic Transition

1. What is the demographic transition?
2. Scientific method, what are the 5 parts (be sure you know the ones we illustrated in class)?  How do they work?
3. What are the basic terms related to the demographic model and what do they mean?
4. Be able to calculate CBR, CDR, RNI and IM from simple data.
5. How does the demographic transition model work?
6. A number of graphs are provided in the demographic transition reading, be able to read and explain these.
7. How has the demographic transition differed between Sweden and Mexico?

Italian Situation

1. What was happening to population in Italy during the 1990s and why?
2. What about Europe as a whole?
3. What was the 7 million issue that Livi-Bacci raises and why is it important?
4. What has been happening in Bellingham with growth and fertility?  Be able to state and explain these two trends.
5. I there and Optimal Population for a country?  Explain.
6. Is Livi-Bacci concerned with optimal population or something else?  Please explain.  Also what major issues relate to this?
7. What causes low fertility?  What are the impacts?
8. What two general category of things leads to the “problem” of low fertility?
9. What is the “Postponement Syndrome”, how does it work and why is it bad?  Does the “family” have a role to play in this syndrome?
10. Solutions, why does Paul Demeny not think that the free market approach will work?
11. What is Livi-Bacci’s solution?

Other readings

1. What is happening in China and why?
2. Why does John Bermingham think that immigration is not solution?