14.1.6

Rural-Urban Push Factors

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Rural-Urban Push Factors

The reasons that encourage or force people to move away from the rural areas are called push factors.

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Economic push factor

  • An economic push factor is a lack of job opportunities in rural areas.
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Social push factor

  • A social push factor is a poor access to health care and education services in rural areas.
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Environmental push factor

  • Climate change is impacting rural land and preventing enough food to be grown for them and their families, so this is an environmental push factor.

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