Rural-Urban Push Factors
Geography: KS3, topic 14.1.6
Rural-Urban Push Factors
The reasons that encourage or force people to move away from the rural areas are called push factors.
Economic push factor
- An economic push factor is a lack of job opportunities in rural areas.
Social push factor
- A social push factor is a poor access to health care and education services in rural areas.
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.
Test yourself on Rural-Urban Push Factors
Which of the following is a potential environmental push factor encouraging people to move from rural to urban areas?