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Regional Discrepancies: Transformation of the Subsistence Livelihoods in the Cholistan Desert Region

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  • Sher Muhammad Malik

    (Assistant Professor,Department of Geography, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.)

  • Amjad Ali

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management (CDPM),University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.)

  • Fazal Rahman

    (Professor,Geography,University of Peshawar, Peshawar, KP ,Pakistan.)

Abstract

The Cholistan dessert is hot and dry region with two distinguished regions of Lesser and Greater Cholistan. The Lesser Cholistan is rapidly developed due to development in agriculture, infrastructure, mechanization, transfer of technology and land allotment policy. The Greater Cholistan region is least developed due to subsistence agriculture system, frequent natural hazards and epidemics outburst in the recent times. The study explores the basic causes of this discrepancies in the development of these two desert regions. The impacts of population growth, natural hazards, epidemics, modern technology, mechanization and land allotment policy are associated with transformation of subsistence livelihoods. It was found that the inhabitants of Lesser Cholistan has better adoptability capacity than Greater Cholistan due to prevailing opportunities in the policy and access to modern technology as well as least affected by natural hazards and epidemics in this desert region.

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  • Sher Muhammad Malik & Amjad Ali & Fazal Rahman, 2019. "Regional Discrepancies: Transformation of the Subsistence Livelihoods in the Cholistan Desert Region," Global Regional Review, Humanity Only, vol. 4(1), pages 69-76, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:aaw:grrjrn:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:69-76
    DOI: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-I).08
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    Keywords

    Cholistan Desert Region; Greater & Lesser Cholistan Regions; Regional Discrepancies; Subsistence Livelihoods; Transformation;
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    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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