Demographic Transition: Age-Sex Pyramids
2018 Weekly Milestones First Draft
Week 39
Course material: Economic Growth and Long Wave Cycles; The Last Kondratieff Wave; Material Consumption; Demographic Definitions; Demographic Transition.
Videos: The Story of Stuff; Population Pyramids.
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3).
Weblinks: Understanding Exponential Growth; Material World; The Water We Eat; 200 Years of Population Growth in Sweden.
Week 38
Course material: Measures of Development, Measures of Development Country Groupings; Antecedents to Modern Economic Growth
Videos (in-class): Hans Rosling 2006: Stats that reshape your world-view; Nic Marks – Happy Planet Index; Money as Debt; World Population History
Class activities: Venn Diagrams of six development measures
Individual Studies read the eBook: Beyond Economic Growth Chapters 1, 2 and 15
Week 37
Individual Studies: Read the three documents in ‘Preliminaries’. Take the Oxford Practice Grammar online test linked from ‘Improving your English’ document.
Course material: What is Economic Geography?
Class activity: Economic Geography Quiz, Ignorance Survey
Video: Inside Job (documentary about global financial crisis of 2008)
Development, Economy, Consumption Links
- Consumption – Rhodes University library guide
- Corruption Perception Index
- Ecological Footprint – World Wildlife Fund website
- Economic Geography Quiz
- Gapminder Ignorance Survey
- Gapminder World
- Happy Planet Index
- Human Development Index
- Inside Job (vimeo)
- Material World – Peter Menzel Photography
- The water we eat (Angela Morelli's great visualisation)
- Theories of development from the guardian.com
Demography Links
- 200 Years of Population Growth in Sweden – Animated Age-Sex Pyramid
- American Migration: Interactive Map
- Asylum seekers in Europe
- Gapminder World
- Global Refugee Crisis: Interactive maps
- India's first 30 years of Family Planning
- Interactive World Migrations Map: Arrivals and Departures by country
- The World at Seven Billion – What's Your Number?
- World Population Growth Video
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