Environmental Factors Flashcards
Environmental Factors
Safeguarding the environment and sustainable development are critical aspects of the discourse and practice of development goals in today’s world.
Impact of climate change
Climate change directly opposes sustainable development. Communities and countries are harming and overexploiting the very resources on which they depend for survival.
How can climate change inhibit development
Climate change and global warming are having a direct impact on weather and rainfall patterns. This results in floods, droughts, rising seawater levels, higher temperatures and other natural disasters that affect agricultural production.
Disease, hunger and malnutrition are additional problems that the poor are likely to face as a result of this, bringing about added costs of healthcare and a fall in productivity of human resources.
Developing countries (and the poorest), will bear the brunt of climate change. Vulnerable areas include: sub-Saharan Africa (drying), Asian mega deltas (flooding), small islands and the Arctic region.
