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Professor Andrew Learmonth, Professor of Geography, examines how population pressures, together with some of their causes and effects, vary in a number of regions of India and Pakistan. He bases hi...s examination on the work of Arthur Geddes, who identified six regional types of population changes. The four main types considered in the programme are 'high natural increase', 'relative stagnation', 'recurrent crisis', and 'colonisation' Using selected case study areas, these types are related to climate, landforms, croptypes and incidence of disease. Professor Learmonth shows how population increase has, in recent years, been keeping pace with increased food production, thus keeping in check improvements in living standards. He considers how changing attitudes to family planning may level off the population explosion by the end of the century. A postscript has been added to this programme in which Professor Learmonth examines the implications of the preliminary results of the 1971 censes of India, which became available after the programme was recorded.
Professor Andrew Learmonth, Professor of Geography, examines how population pressures, together with some of their causes and effects, vary in a number of regions of India and Pakistan. He bases hi...s examination on the work of Arthur Geddes, who identified six regional types of population changes. The four main types considered in the programme are 'high natural increase', 'relative stagnation', 'recurrent crisis', and 'colonisation' Using selected case study areas, these types are related to climate, landforms, croptypes and incidence of disease. Professor Learmonth shows how population increase has, in recent years, been keeping pace with increased food production, thus keeping in check improvements in living standards. He considers how changing attitudes to family planning may level off the population explosion by the end of the century. A postscript has been added to this programme in which Professor Learmonth examines the implications of the preliminary results of the 1971 censes of India, which became available after the programme was recorded.
| Module code and title: | D100, Understanding society: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | D100; 33 |
| First transmission date: | 03-10-1971 |
| Published: | 1971 |
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| Duration: | 00:26:36 |
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| Producer: | Desmond Smith |
| Contributor: | Andrew Learmonth |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | 1971 census of India; India; Pakistan; Population |
| Footage description: | Mrs. Gandhi describes India's regional diversity. Shots of Indian rural activities. Andrew Learmonth describes four regional demographic types of population increase. Each type is illustrated by a graph and a map of India and Pakistan (no boundaries are marked) showing the areas illustrative of the types. The four types are 1. High natural increase 2. Relative Stagnation 3. Recurrent crisis 4. 'Colonization'. Over map of Indian subcontinent showing these areas, Learmonth gives rural population density ratings to areas of India and Pakistan at 1961 censuses. These are linked to the 4 types of regional population increase isolated in sequence 2. Film of Rajasthan is shown by Learmonth to illustrate the 'recurrent crisis' area. Shots of farming methods and farms; interviews with farmers in time of drought, irrigation methods. Andrew Learmonth now examines Kerala. Shots of fishing, coir manufacture (most stages) and spice farming. The area admits of a measure of individual prosperity. Tamilnadu (shots of rice farming) and Eastern Mysore (shots of irrigation methods) are now described in general terms. Andrew Learmonth examines Bengal briefly - shots of flood disasters and of industrial projects. Andrew Learmonth summarises the programme and shows graphs of food production and population trend and a logistic curve of the population of India over the period 1800 - 2000. Addition after credits, Prof. Learmonth using a map of India analyses the preliminary findings of the 1971 census. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70151 |
| Production number: | 00520_1233 |
| Videofinder number: | 3388 |
| Available to public: | no |
