Geographic and Socio-Economic Factor
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Geographic and Socio-Economic Factor
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Communication 2Introduction Poverty is the worst element of any nation which slowly and silently kills the country and its ladders of success and development. Poverty can be explained as a state where the individuals or the masses are deprived from their fundamental rights and necessities of life. In the present age of globalisation, it is one of the most concerned and severe issue that setbacks the development and growth of the countries (Hallegatte, et al., 2016). There is a strong need of resilience as resilience is considered as a multi-faced phenomenon which comprises of the environmental as well as several personal factors which have an interaction in a way of forming synergy to produce ability and competence farther than adversity. It is the competence to enhance the level of skills and thrive hard to face the adverse situations with strong strength of mind. There are several factors such as geographic or socio-economic factors that play a significant role that havea direct impact upon poverty and which emphasis the people living under poverty line to be resilience (Béné, et al., 2014). The paper will discuss the geographic and socio-economic factor in context with their role in poverty and poor people resilience. Impact of physical/geographical factors and socioeconomic factors on poverty and emphasizing poor people to be resilienceThere are hundreds of thousands of people that live below poverty line and face high level of stress and poor living conditions. There are various adversities such as abuse, hunger, violence, death, etc which are experienced by these groups of individuals. But there is a need to develop resilience and become resilient to such conditions for facing these adverse circumstances with utmost competence so that such conditions do not impact the probability of these individuals to overcome these situations and have an improved and sustainable livelihood (Sanders, Lim and Sohn, 2008). There are geographic/personal and socio-economic factors which impacts poverty in a deeper sense and thus force the poor people to be resilient. There are various geographic factors that play a vital role in impacting the poverty conditions in any country. The first and key geographical factor is climate change. It is one of the most severe risks in the aspect of reduction of poverty (Setboonsarng, 2015). The negative impacts of climatechange are extremely evident; the countries are vulnerable to natural disasters comprising droughts, floods, earthquakes, etc. (Hallegatte, et al., 2015). The phenomenon of climate change
Communication 3is global in nature but the major negative impacts are posed upon the poor nations and poor people only. Due to increased dependence upon the natural resources and their restricted competence to cope up with such climatic conditions and variability, the developing countries are more vulnerable to such climatic changes (Roy, et al., 2016). One major example of the negative impacts if these climate change is of the pacific Islands as they are becoming highly vulnerable to the climatic conditions due to continuously increasing developing infrastructure, urbanization, degradation of coastal systems and squatter settlements (Seaman, et al., 2014). The geographical factor of climate change has direct impact on poverty which further has its correlation with resilience. Because of the negative impacts of the climate change on poor people, it is essential to have an adaptation approach. The more adaptive the poor people will be towards the vulnerability of these climate changes, the better will be for them to become resilient(Béné, et al., 2014). There are number of ways which are found by these poor people to overcome the negative impacts of such factors such as they tend to increase the prices of their crops to manage the less production due to insufficiency of rains (Tanner, et al., 2015). Other ways ate that people who have their dependence on agriculture grow those crops and have their dependence on such farm products which can easily be produce without getting impacted by these climate variation and resulting in be more resilience to such changes. The second geographical factor which impacts poverty is the density of population. The density of population can be understood as the ratio of individuals to any land area. With the density of population, it can also be easily determine the graph of poverty of that region (Dang, Lanjouw and Swinkels, 2017). Usually, it is analyzed that the highly or densely populated regions marks ared when it comes to the poverty aspect. Because of the increased number of people at a specific land area decreases the number of resources to be utilized by those individuals and thus scarcity of resources takes place (Estrada, 2013). Because of limited job opportunities, limited availability of resources as well as other limited products, there is tend to increase the number if people started living under the poverty line due to inability to access to these limited resources (Lakhan, 2015). The very common example of poverty because of density of population is India. As per the data revealed by World Bank, it is identified atht the maximum number of poor people or people living under poverty line are in India and the key areas where there is presence of high number of poor people re those areas which are densely populated (Businesstoday, 2016). Thus, it is evident that density of population is one of the key aspects of increasing
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