the Role of Constraints in Relation to Sustaining Populations

Question 1

What are the constraints in sustaining populations?

Answer 1

• war
• trade barriers
• poverty
• famine
• natural disasters (e.g earthquakes, floods, droughts, volcanic eruptions + storms)

Question 2

How is war a constraint in sustaining populations?

Answer 2

• water, food + other resources are deliberately destroyed to make it harder to sustain the opposing pop.
• more dev. a country = safer from conflict

Question 3

How are trade barriers a constraint in sustaining populations?

Answer 3

• many LICs are liable to tariffs, quotas + regulations that limit their exporting ability + hinders their dev.

Question 4

How is poverty a constraint in sustaining populations?

Answer 4

• lack of money means an individual can’t sustain themselves, + country can’t afford infrastructure for eco. dev.

Question 5

How is famine a constraint in sustaining populations?

Answer 5

• soils get overuse, + droughts kill crops. soil exhaustion inc. w food demand that an inc. pop. applies

Question 6

How are natural disasters a constraint in sustaining populations?

Answer 6

• floods: deprives investment in agri.
• droughts: desertification dec. agri. potential
• volcanic eruptions: devastates large areas, covering farmland in lava, burying settlements + destroying infrastructure (e.g. Montserrat 1995: 1/3 of island evacuated)
• storms
• earthquakes
• all have huge potential to cause large scale catastrophe + deaths