You have been hired as the population minister for an Asian nation that has a Total Fertility Rate of 5.9 for the past 30 years.
You have been tasked with writing a plan that will cut the Total Fertility Rate in half in 15 years and ultimately control population growth in your country. Detail your plan and include at least three specific programs to achieve your goal. When possible give examples of where/what countries these programs have worked for.
This answer will require at least three paragraphs to receive full credit. Be sure to detail at least three separate programs that will help achieve your goal. (30%)
If you achieve your goal, what will the Age Structure Diagram looks like for your country in 30 years and why? (5%)
Other than Fertility Rates list at least two other statistics that you would need to know as you strive to manage population in your country. Birth and Death rates are not answers that you can use nor any fertility rate. Explain why you need the statistics you have chosen. (10%)
Until you succeed in lowering the Fertility Rate there is extreme pressure on the natural resources that your country has. One of the most important resources that your country has are rhinos and elephants that are both under pressure due to poaching for ivory and for their meat. Devise a sustainable way that your country can utilize the wildlife resources that you have to obtain a benefit for the country and its population. You must generate revenue for your country through your ides(s). Your ideas must also insure the future of the rhino and elephant populations. This answer will require multiple paragraphs for full credit. (20%)
- Define and explain the I=PATS equation. (10%)
- A population of 300 elk is growing at a rate of 3.4%. How long will it take for that population to double? How do you know how to answer this question? What rule should you use based on one of your population assignments? (5%)
- What country will have the largest human population in 3 years? (2.5%)
- Why does the United States of America have a relatively stable/low population growth rate? A correct answer is not that our birth rates are close to our death rates. Explain why that is. (5%) Why does the concept of Tragedy of the Common not apply to the United States in 2014? Be sure to give at least two reasons with support. (7.5%)
- As Americans, why do we generally have such a large Ecological Footprint compared to many parts of the world? (5%)