IPAT Discussion

This formula is basically used by population analysts to find out the impact of human activity on the environment. Given this equation, what drives environmental decline? Environmental decline or degradation is the decrease in quality of destruction of the environment through the utilization of the resources available. In this equation, population is the major aspect which drives environmental decline since increase in the number of people is usually higher than the affluence and technology which leads to a high impact. The situation is well explained by the situation in the impact in USA. ("U. Suburban sprawl is the rapid expansion of cities in to the surrounding rural areas in an irregular pattern (Frumkin, et al. 2014) The suburban sprawl creates an extension on human population from the central urban areas to the areas of low population density in the cities’ metropolis.