Population, Urbanization, and Animal Decline
The Human Impact on the Natural Environment
- The Human Impact on the Natural Environment, which lists the five stages of global economic development.
- Examine the population trends in the two most recent stages of economic development:
- The Atlantic industrial era
- The Pacific global era
- Compare the environmental conditions between these two eras and with what occurred in the first three stages of global economic development.
- Explain how the population trends in these eras led to urbanization.
- Choose one of the world's urban agglomerations listed in Table 1.7.
- Identify three environmental effects cause by urbanization in this area.
- Identify a specific animal population decline that resulted from urbanization in this area