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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2009
Population pressures are major sources of environmental degradation. Population numbers, fertility rates, and the age composition of populations, interact with natural resources, ecological processes, and life-support systems.
* Less [including least] Developed and More [including Most] Developed Countries, respectively. In this paper these UN terms are used. LDCs broadly equate with the terms ‘Third World’ or ‘The South’, and MDCs with ‘Western Countries’ or ‘The North’.