the slide is about how the increasing population effect the environment

1. POPULATION AND
THE ENVIRONMENT

3. Reshma.R

10. Reasons for population growth
• Increase in number of children helps increase the
wealth of a family and provide leisure and old-age
security to parents.
• Decrease in death rate as a result of better
sanitation procedures and medical benefits.
• Early marriage of girls
• Illiteracy among people and lack or non availability
of educational opportunities.

16. Consequences of rapid
population growth
• Acute shortage of food - kwashiorkor,anemia,
scurvy, rickets.
• Poor health
• Lack of educational facilities
• Deterioration of the environment
• Hindering economic progress

27. Urbnization

29. Problems of urbanization
• Depletion of croplands and forest
• Depletion of water resources
• Building material
• Industries
• Slums
• Pollution of water bodies
• Air pollution
• Production of waste

30. Om Prakash

40. Rakesh Kumar Sahoo

44. Parvathy

54. Control of rapid population
growth
• Population growth can be controlled by adopting
various family welfare programmes
• Providing birth control information.
• This could be most effective if performed by the
government
• In many cases abortions are made legal and
cheaper for the poor section of the society.

55. Techniques adopted for birth
control
• Sterilization
• TUBECTOMY-females
• VASECTOMY-males
• Prevention of conception
• By using oral contraceptive pills-prevent the
ovulation
• A non steroidal weekly pill called "saheli" has been
developed by CDRI Lucknow which contains
centchroman

56. • Physical barriers
• Intrauterine contraceptive devices
• Traditional procedure