TY - JOUR AU - Weeks, John PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Population and the Environment JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/population-and-the-environment SP - AB - The purpose of this course is to understand the causes and consequences of population growth at the global, national, regional, and local levels, focusing especially on the spatial interrelationships among and between population size, growth, and distribution and the natural and built environments. The major goal of the course is to offer insight into why and how populations grow (and decline), and where and under what conditions population change has positive and negative consequences. This requires that we understand the interaction of mortality, fertility, migration, population structure, and population characteristics. All of these factors will be considered within the context of cultural change and economic development and sustainability. The course will include a review and analysis of strategies designed to cope with population change, environmental change, and the rise in affluence and control over nature that have led to both phenomena. ER -