A group of environmental scientists wants to study the impact of population growth on the environment. Which discipline will contribute to the study?
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The discipline that will contribute to this study is Demography.
Demography is the study of population, population growth, their spread over the various geographic areas, and the breakup of population according to gender, age, occupation, income etc. Basically, it studies the size, composition and distribution of human population.
Environmental science and Demography are the two disciplines of studies that need to come together to accomplish this project.
Demography is the correct answer for your question.
Demography is a field of study that utilizes various data to produce perfect statistics on births and death rates, Income of certain population or overall population of earth, diseases that prevailing and causing mortality, migration and changing structure of human population.
The term Demography came from ancient Greek words Demo which means people and graphy which refers to measurement or writing or description.