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• 20:29, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+113)‎ . . N Birthrate (crude) ‎ (Created page with "The number of live births per 1000 population per year (sometimes abbreviated as CBR). Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:28, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+141)‎ . . N Capital ‎ (Created page with "A factor of production, including tools, buildings, and machines used by labor to fashion goods from raw material. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:28, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+107)‎ . . N Death rate (crude) ‎ (Created page with "The annual number of deaths per thousand population (sometimes abbreviated CDR). Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:27, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+124)‎ . . Demographic transition ‎ (current)
• 20:26, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+94)‎ . . N Doubling time ‎ (Created page with "The time in years required for a population of a country to double. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:26, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+135)‎ . . N Fertility Rate (total) ‎ (Created page with "The number of live births per woman during her child-bearing years, sometimes called "Total Fertility Rate". Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:26, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+185)‎ . . N Geographic information systems (GIS) ‎ (Created page with "A technique for storing and transforming geographic data on a wide variety of variables to produce digital maps with hardware and associated computer software. Category:E...") (current)
• 20:25, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+152)‎ . . N Human suffering index ‎ (Created page with "A useful descriptive measure of the differences in living conditions among countries, including measures of human well-being. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:24, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+99)‎ . . N Infant mortality rate ‎ (Created page with "The number of deaths during the first year of live per 1000 live births. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:24, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+88)‎ . . N Labor force ‎ (Created page with "The people in society who work, both employed and unemployed. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:23, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+145)‎ . . N Labor migration theory ‎ (Created page with "Theories to explain the process of changing residence from one geographic locale to another, due to economic factors. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:23, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+242)‎ . . N Law of diminishing returns ‎ (Created page with "The law according to which, when factors of production (land, labor, and capital) are doubled, output doubles; but if one factor of production or only some factors are doubled...") (current)
• 20:22, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+154)‎ . . N Logistic growth curve ‎ (Created page with "A life cycle called an S curve, which features a steady state followed by quick growth, then followed by another steady state. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:22, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+126)‎ . . Migration ‎ (current)
• 20:21, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+158)‎ . . N Natural increase ‎ (Created page with "Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths per 1000 individuals per year; it does not include immigration. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:21, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+118)‎ . . N Negative population growth ‎ (Created page with "A falling level of population where out-migration and death exceed in-migration and births. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:21, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+142)‎ . . N Neo-Malthusian ‎ (Created page with "Someone who accepts the Malthusian principle but homes to avoid famine with the intervention of government controls. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:20, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+157)‎ . . N Optimum population size ‎ (Created page with "The theoretical number of people that would provide the best balance of population and resources for a desired standard of living. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:20, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+89)‎ . . N Physiologic density ‎ (Created page with "The number of people per square mile of farmable or arable land. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:17, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+105)‎ . . N Population composition ‎ (Created page with "Age, gender, and reproductive demographics of the people of a specific place. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:17, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+114)‎ . . N Population pyramid ‎ (Created page with "A special type of bar chart indicating the distribution of a population by age and sex. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:17, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+175)‎ . . N Primary economic activity ‎ (Created page with "An economic pursuit mainly involving natural or culturally improved resources, such as agriculture, livestock-raising, forestry, fishing, and mining. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:16, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+182)‎ . . N Primate city ‎ (Created page with "A country's leading city economically, culturally, historically, and politically; it is much larger than competing cities in population, wealth, and power. Category:Econ...") (current)
• 20:16, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+189)‎ . . N Push-and-pull factors ‎ (Created page with "The conditions in the source area, which tend to drive people away, and the perceived attractiveness of the destination that simultaneously stimulate migration flows. Catego...") (current)
• 20:16, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+130)‎ . . N Rate of natural increase ‎ (Created page with "The excess of births over deaths, or the difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:15, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+153)‎ . . N Regional growth forecast ‎ (Created page with "Long-range urban forecasting of population, housing, and the economic activity of a region and small geographic areas within it. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:14, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+186)‎ . . N Rule of seventy ‎ (Created page with "Dividing the average annual rate of growth by 70 (technically 100 times the natural log of 2 or 69.3147), yields the doubling time of population for a country. Category:...") (current)
• 20:14, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+116)‎ . . N Secondary economic activity ‎ (Created page with "The processing of materials to render them more directly useful to people; manufacturing. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:13, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+98)‎ . . N Unemployment ‎ (Created page with "Share of the labor force that is actively seeking but cannot find a job. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:12, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+160)‎ . . N Zero population growth (ZPG) ‎ (Created page with "As a result of the combination of births, deaths, and migration, the population of a country is level, not rising, from year to year. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:12, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+358)‎ . . N Acid rain ‎ (Created page with "A type of caustic precipitation (rain, snow, or fog) that derives from the combustion of coal and other fossil fuels (such as from motor vehicles), releasing sulfur and nitrog...")
• 20:11, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+169)‎ . . N Balance-oriented lifestyle ‎ (Created page with "A mind-set that insists that because resources are finite, they must be recycled, and input rates slowed down to prevent ecological overload. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:11, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+174)‎ . . Biomass ‎
• 20:10, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+129)‎ . . N California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) ‎ (Created page with "The basis for environmental law and policy to protect environmental quality in the State of California. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:10, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+76)‎ . . N Carrying capacity ‎ (Created page with "The maximum population an ecosystem can support. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:09, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+120)‎ . . N Conservation ‎ (Created page with "Careful management and use of resources to assure continuing availability in the longer run. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:09, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+206)‎ . . Deforestation ‎ (current)
• 20:08, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+76)‎ . . N Depletion curves ‎ (Created page with "Graphs used to project the lifetimes of resources. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:08, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+138)‎ . . Desertification ‎ (current)
• 20:07, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+47)‎ . . Energy ‎ (current)
• 20:07, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+145)‎ . . N Fossil fuels ‎ (Created page with "Fuels, including oil, coal, and natural gas, that are formed from plant and animal remains from millions of years ago. Category:Economics")
• 20:06, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+156)‎ . . N Geothermal energy ‎ (Created page with "Energy produced by heat from deep inside the earth as water interfaces with heated rocks from the earth's core, producing steam. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:06, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+215)‎ . . N Green Revolution ‎ (Created page with "A popular term for the greatly increased yield per hectare that followed the introduction of new, scientifically bred, and selected varieties of such food crops as wheat, maiz...") (current)
• 20:06, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+191)‎ . . N Growth-oriented lifestyle ‎ (Created page with "A mind-set that insists on maximum production and consumption; it assumes an environment of unlimited waste and pollution reservoirs and indestructible ecosystems. Cate...") (current)
• 20:05, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+171)‎ . . N Intermediate technology ‎ (Created page with "Low-cost, small-scale technologies intermediate between primitive stick-farming methods and complex Western agri-industrial technical packages. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:05, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+140)‎ . . N Limits to growth ‎ (Created page with "The optimum population size for the world, provided by the Club of Rome, that shows that growth must be limited. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:04, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+192)‎ . . Malnutrition ‎ (current)
• 20:04, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+77)‎ . . N Marine fisheries ‎ (Created page with "Harvesting of fish and shellfish from the oceans. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:04, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+119)‎ . . N Maximum sustainable yield ‎ (Created page with "Maximum production consistent with maintaining future productivity of a renewable resource. Category:Economics")
• 20:03, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+159)‎ . . N Minerals ‎ (Created page with "Natural inorganic substances that have a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystal structure, hardness, and density. Category:Economics")

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