Strategies for Coping

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Examples can be found below of what strategies have been used to cope with population change

MEDC’s

Advertising for workers from other countries to come and work in sparsely populated areas such as the Shetlands (UK example)

Tax incentives for large families to increase birth rates in France

Banning contraceptives

Extending urban areas to encourage people to move away from densely populated cities in the Netherlands

LEDC’s

Indonesian transmigration policy whereby people are offered incentives to move to one of the sparsely populated islands

China’s one child policy whereby each couple are only allowed to have one child per household

Settlements being built away from over populated areas in Brazil

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