In Pyrmont‚ high rise buildings are everywhere and they are still being built continuously‚ even though the area is packed with buildings and the spaces between the buildings are very narrow. My focus questions relating to the spatial dimension concentrates on why the area is so dense and why high rise buildings were built. The results I have acquired are from local newspapers‚ which had reported about the history of Pyrmont and how it started developing into a high rise area‚ and from my observations
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY 1 Environmental Sustainability Kim Saia Baton Rouge Community College ENVS 201 Professor Deadra Mackie May 8‚ 2013 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Environmental Sustainability Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions needed to support us now and in future generations by working to ensure we continue to have the water‚ materials‚ and resources to protect us and the environment ("What is sustainability?‚" n.d.‚ para. 1). Environmental sustainability should be
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course of this semester‚ I was able to visit the Alliance Airport located in Fort Worth‚ TX.The airport is owned by the city of Fort Worth and serviced by a private company called Alliance Air Services ("Fort Worth Alliance Airport"‚ n.d.). Alliance Airport serves some corporate aviation however‚ they support mostly cargo and military aviation. Alliance Airport has set up an agreement with Station 35 which is located on the airport premises that they will provide services to the airport however‚
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third runway expansion in the Hong Kong International Airport will cause a significant amount of damage to the environment in many ways. The building process of the third runway extension will involve a lot of land reclamation that causes a lot of noise and water pollution that will harm humans and animals’ ecosystems‚ especially the habitat of the Chinese Pink Dolphins. We understand that a third runway may provide Hong Kong with economic benefits‚ but the losses in our environment would total to
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Executive summary: Sustainability reporting‚ alternatively known as CSR reporting‚ is the annual process whereby companies - public‚ private; large and small - report on their sustainability performance. Reports typically cover social‚ environmental‚ economic and ethical performance and incorporate information on a company ’s environmental impact or carbon footprint‚ staff satisfaction‚ community investment etc. Sustainability reporting is becoming increasingly important as a tool companies can
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Covering an area of 13 square kilometres‚ Changi Airport is a major Asian aviation hub and the main airport in Singapore. Located in Changi‚ it is about 17.2 kilometres north east from the commercial site. Changi Airport is served by 80 airlines with over 400‚000 flights a year connecting to more than 180 cities in 59 countries‚ handling 37.7 million passengers and ranking 19th busiest airport in the world. The airport is expecting to handle a total of 50milllion by 2012. It is operated by the
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How significant the New Deal was depends on the definition of significance. Since significance is how important something is or how big of an impact it has I will be looking at how big of an impact it had on different aspects of the American society‚ how efficient it was and if there are any long lasting effects. In October 24th 1929 the collapse of the stock market left the USA in financial ruins‚ which would have a devastating and long-term effect on the economy. Hundreds of banks failed due to
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Chapter2:Economic sustainability Blackground of Swire Coca-Cola HK Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong Limited (Swire Coca-Cola HK Ltd.) In Hong Kong has the franchise of Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola brand products. Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong ’s major soft drink manufacturer. The company employs nearly fourteen hundred employees‚ operate 17 production lines‚ the annual production of more than 60 million cases of drinks. In addition to Coca-Cola‚ the company also produces Coke Zero‚ Diet Coke‚ Vanilla Coke
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they are representing. (p. 113) This paper will review the efforts at Starbucks to become a sustainable corporate partner with its shareholders‚ employees and customers. Most importantly‚ it will examine how Starbucks has become a leader in corporate social responsibility and sustainability worldwide. STARBUCKS One of the first things that a visitor to the Starbucks web site will notice is that there is a link to a “Responsibility” segment of the site. This link opens the reader to the plethora
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(Submitted by: Mohd. Khalid Khan) Title: “ Emerging Challenges in Airport Management – Way Forward “ Introduction: The last few years has seen an exponential growth in the aviation industry. Aviation infrastructure has expanded to include hundreds of airports and airlines around the world. New airports have mushroomed in places which were hardly known to the world‚ existing airports have upgraded their facilities‚ new terminals have come up and multiple airlines have been setup. The volume
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