population growth and urbanisation

Question 1

malthusian theory

Answer 1

population grows quicker than food supply —> eventually lead to “malthusian crisis” (death and famine)

Kaplan: revived this theory and controversially noted poor countries poor bc overpopulated so decrease poplation
—> dependency theorists note that it is the wealthy not the poor that need curbing

Question 2

boserup theory

Answer 2

malthusian crisis never happened due to tech —> Saunders: this is an extension of free market that will generate solutions

Question 3

adamson (anti malthusian)

Answer 3

poor countries actually need high populations to stimulate growth so reducing their populations bad