Environmental Issue - Assignment Solution

The vast majority of world population still lives in countries that are classified as underdeveloped or developing nations. Despite their efforts and in maintaining economic relationships with developed economies and even succeeding in it, the underdeveloped countries have been unable to profit from these relationships. However, in most occurrences the majority of underdeveloped nations have come about due to colonization, where not only their social and cultural values were adversely impacted, but financially these economies observed a meltdown(Bernardi, 2007). On the other hand, countries that, somehow, eluded the process of colonization, were unfortunately, by the virtue of system, witnessed an influx in investment from the foreigners, but the profits from these investment were taken back to the land of the foreigners, with very little for the home country to consume.  

The world population seems to be on rise during European colonies, when the underdeveloped economies were going through a rapid population growth, following by a sudden depopulation as a courtesy of inadequate medical facilities and health awareness (Hagberg & Ouattara, 2012). Nevertheless, to this day, growing population has been a grave concern for experts and practitioners from every wake of field, yet fueling the ‘population crisis’ is the works of anxious media and dire prediction of disaster and collapse from the scientific body, which only leads to glaring headlines, with little or no solution to the problem. However, amidst this popular image of population crisis, there are thoughtful and pragmatic discussion on the causes and effect of this social quandary that are brought forward through different perspectives. 

Along several academic lenses that study the crisis of population, is the field of anthropology that takes into account human action and how it affects the environment and society all over. The anthropological perspective on population will assist in enhancing our understanding of this prevailing social issue and how this can be resolved in the near future. Initially, the contribution by cultural anthropologist will be highlighted that have been made in the area of population study by the means of (i) long-term history of population dynamics, (ii) demographic processes in ‘primitive’ and peasant society, and (iii) population and culture.  The anthropological study of population will define growth from two different set of factors, namely ‘deterministic’ and ‘self-regulatory’. These two determinants pan out reasoning that help advance our comprehension of population crises and what are the means that can be achieved that will result in the settling of the same issue.