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| Reviewed: |
Feb 22, 2001 by Biology Editorial Board |
| Overview: |
This site was created by the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris - France. It is designed to familiarize the
visitor with current and future human population growth, the impact of several factors on world population growth,
and the impact that humans have on the environment as a result of the rapid growth in the population.
The site is very attractively designed with a minimum of distracting or unnecessary text and excellent graphics and
layout. It looks very much like a modern interactive museum exhibit. The flow through the site is linear, although a
navigation bar (frame) lets the user skip forward or backward to different sections. |
| Learning Goals: |
The site lets users
"personalize" the information they receive by asking questions about when they are born, when they would
choose to marry, where they live, how many children they want, and how they might choose to regulate the
number children they would have. Users can explore current world statistics, those on their continent or those on
other continents. Statistics on death and survival rates are reported in terms of the cohort to which the user
belongs. A graph of the world's population size shows the exponential growth shown by the human population
and describes some important milestones and the events that affected growth rate. The site ends with a series of
questions about the future and the effects of factors such as resource depletion and AIDS. |
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