This document discusses the causes and effects of rapid population growth and urbanization. It notes that population growth is driven by factors like increased childbirth rates, decreased death rates, early marriage, and illiteracy. This rapid growth leads to problems like food shortages, poor health, lack of education facilities, environmental degradation, and hindered economic progress. Urbanization also causes issues such as depletion of land and water resources, pollution, and the creation of slums. The document recommends adopting family planning programs, providing birth control information and access, and legalizing abortions to help control the fast population growth rate. It describes various birth control techniques like sterilization, oral contraceptives, IUDs, and traditional barriers that

1. POPULATION AND
THE ENVIRONMENT

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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

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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