MCDB 150: GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF POPULATION GROWTH
MCDB 150: GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF POPULATION GROWTH
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Genre: Population Growth, Demographics | Language: English
WEB-Rip | MOV | AVC1 @ 1 Mbit/s | 640x360 | AAC Stereo @ 128 Kbit/s 48 KHz | 28 Hours | 17.5 GB
Genre: Population Growth, Demographics | Language: English
About the Course
This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy. Topics include: the human and environmental dimensions of population pressure, demographic history, economic and cultural causes of demographic change, environmental carrying capacity and sustainability. Political, religious and ethical issues surrounding fertility are also addressed. The lectures and readings attempt to balance theoretical and demographic scale analyzes with studies of individual humans and communities. The perspective is global with both developed and developing countries included.
About Professor Robert Wyman
Robert Wyman is Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale. Educated at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, his research has been in neuro-genetics: how genes build the brain. Recent articles in that field have appeared in Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Neuroscience, and Glia. Since Yale produces so many political and societal leaders, Professor Wyman believes students should be educated in the major world issues. Population is probably the most important of these issues as it is a major driver of both human and environmental misery. Publications in this field have appeared in Population and Development Review and Population and Environment.
Sessions
Lecture 01 Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies
Lecture 02 Sex and Violence Among the Apes
Lecture 03 From Ape to Human
Lecture 04 When Humans Were Scarce
Lecture 05 Why Is Africa Different?
Lecture 06 Malthusian Times
Lecture 07 Demographic Transition in Europe; Mortality Decline
Lecture 08 Demographic Transition in Europe; Fertility Decline
Lecture 09 Demographic Transition in Europe
Lecture 10 Quantitative Aspects
Lecture 11 Low Fertility in Developed Countries (Guest Lecture by Michael Teitelbaum)
Lecture 12 Human and Environmental Impacts
Lecture 13 Fertility Attitudes and Practices
Lecture 14 Demographic Transition in Developing Countries
Lecture 15 Female Disadvantage
Lecture 16 Population in Traditional China
Lecture 17 Population in Modern China
Lecture 18 Economic Impact of Population Growth
Lecture 19 Economic Motivations for Fertility
Lecture 20 Teen Sexuality and Teen Pregnancy
Lecture 21 Global Demography of Abortion
Lecture 22 Media and the Fertility Transition in Developing Countries (Guest Lecture by William Ryerson)
Lecture 23 Biology and History of Abortion
Lecture 24 Population and the Environment
MCDB 150: GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF POPULATION GROWTH
MCDB 150: GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF POPULATION GROWTH
MCDB 150: GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF POPULATION GROWTH
MCDB 150: GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF POPULATION GROWTH
