Theme 1, Key Idea 2 Part 1 - Env Tolerance, Population, Malthus and Boserup

For Key Idea 2 Part 1 you need to know:

1. Economic and population growth have led to a depletion of the world’s natural resources – with evidence and examples to back up your points.

And be able to:

2. Outline and evaluate two contrasting models which seek to explain population-resource relationships – Malthus and Boserup.

3. Evaluate Malthus and Boserup with reference to two case study countries: Mauritius and Ethiopia


Here are all the Powerpoints and worksheets for this revision session:

GDoc link to folder - clicking this takes you to a folder with all the things you can see below


Especially note the 'Key Idea 2 Summary doc' - it has everything you need to know.

Alternatively, here are the same docs but held on a file sharing website, which may take a little longer to download but you can see what all the files are from this post.




If you have any problems with it, email me rjplastow@gmail.com

Here are some links to articles and websites to go with it (please feel free to add more in the comments section below if you have some more)

UN population data for every country in the world

Welcome Baby 7 Billion

Population is not the problem

Economic Growth Video/The Impossible Hamster