STANDARD OF LIVING SECTION

• Change in lifestyle due to mass production

  People used to provide for their own needs, now they purchase commodities to satisfy their needs
• Ways to improve the environment

  • Do not litter
  • Recycle
  • Reuse plastic goods
  • Plant trees
  • Do not waste water
  • Turn off unused electrical appliances
• Standard of living

  • Determined by the amount of money people earn and what commodities they are able to consume
  • Rich people have a high standard of living
  • Poor people have a low standard of living
• Impact of development on the environment

  • Poor countries are considered developing, industrialised countries are considered developed
  • People migrate from rural to urban areas, increasing pressure on urban areas
• Major concerns of development on the environment

  • Sustaining the earth's resources
  • Global warming
  • Preventing further environmental damage
  • Energy usage
  • Overpopulation
• Ways to reduce unemployment

  • Encouraging entrepreneurship
  • Promoting industrial development
  • Building infrastructure
  • Improving education and training
  • Productive use of resources to promote a healthy environment
• Self-sufficient societies


  People provide for their own needs using available resources
• Lifestyles include

  • Education
  • Working environment
  • Living environment
  • Physical and mental health
  • Leisure time
  • Happiness
• Lifestyles

  Refer to the quality of life a person leads
• Causes of unemployment

  • Lack of education
  • Fluctuations in the economy
  • Decrease in morals and values
  • Outsourcing
  • Decrease in labour-intensive production
• Modern societies characteristics

  • High income levels
  • High level of industrialisation
  • Good health system
  • Good education system
  • Good transportation system
• Unemployment is defined as someone who is completely without work, available to work, within the working age population, and taking active steps to find work
• Standard of living

  The degree of wealth and material comfort of a person or community
• Rural societies characteristics

  • Inadequate housing
  • Inadequate infrastructure
  • Inadequate public services
  • Poor health status
  • Low level of industrialisation
  • Low level of employment
• Economic growth is the increase in production or output over time