Chapter 2: Population and Scarcity

Chapter 2: Population and Scarcity

Supplemental resources

World Population

U.S. and World Population Clock

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

Population Connection (2000). Video: World Population.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_9SutNmfFk

Malthusianism

Ambirajan, S. (1976). Malthusian population theory and Indian famine policy in the nineteenth century. Population Studies, 30(1): 5-14. (Requires JSTOR access)

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2173660

Malthus, T. (1798). An Essay on the Principle of Population. Published online by Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project (1998).

http://www.esp.org/books/malthus/population/malthus.pdf

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The Sustainable Scale Project

http://www.sustainablescale.org/ConceptualFramework/UnderstandingScale/MeasuringScale/TheIPATEquation.aspx

Encyclopedia of Earth: IPAT.

http://www.eoearth.org/article/IPAT_equation

Contains links at the bottom to other resources, including online journal articles:

http://phe.rockefeller.edu/ImPACT/ImPACT.pdf

Breathing Earth

Counter that combines population statistics and carbon dioxide emissions.

http://breathingearth.net/