Human Conflicts Under Changing Climate and its Impacts on Socio-Economic Growth: A Case Study of Rawalpindi District

Abstract

Human conflicts due to climate change is becoming main concern of the world. Pakistan economy is facing the climate related issue in the most of the district and villages which lead to the socio economic growth. Most of the areas of Pakistan is facing the issue temperature which lead to the productivity of the land. Hence, a large amount of economic literature investigated human conflicts and its impact on socio economic growth in both developed and developing economies but they lack of few literatures available about different district of Pakistan.  Therefore, this study mainly focused on human conflict   and its impact on the socio economic growth of selected district Rawalpindi. The data collected for the empirical analysis from 5 tehsils of the district Rawalpindi and the selected population sample size was 150 used in the study and 30 farmers from each district was selected for the study. The results of the study showed that rainfall have insignificant and positive impact on socio economic growth which means that it have insignificant and positive impact on the cost of conflict and on the other side the coefficient   value of the temperature is statically significant and positive impact on the behavior of the people which create the issue of the conflicts in the district Rawalpindi .However , this study suggested that government should need to make the policy that can reduce the cost of the conflict and government should need to conduct the awareness program for the people of the district.