Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): * A formal process to predict the environmental consequence of human development activities and to plan an appropriate measure to eliminate or reduce the adverse impacts and to augment positive impacts. * EIA is an attempt to identify measure and evaluate the environmental impacts of a course of actions. Here‚ actions mean any development‚ strategy which will change an existing system. * According to LGED‚ assessment of beneficial and adverse change
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oru [Impacts of Tourism Growth in Thailand and its Sustainability] TAN Jialin * Executive Summary Tourism growth has a great impact on the economy of any state; where on one hand it helps the economy to grow‚ on the other hand it creates socio-economic‚ environmental and cultural challenges which produce negative impacts on the overall economic development and sustainability of the country. First of all we will provide the introduction to the topic and will make the critical literature
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The tourism industry has grown exponentially over the previous twenty years‚ it is now a worldwide industry‚ both in terms of tourists and host destinations‚ and ‘is no longer confined to the developed countries that traditionally provided the demand for world travel’ (Page & Connell‚ 2006‚ pp.4). World leaders have long been recognising the huge economic advantages that a booming tourism industry can bring to their nations‚ and vast amounts of money have been invested set up the infrastructure to
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States and the Soviet Union‚ split the world into two halves. On one side‚ there was the communist countries allied with the Soviet Union‚ and the other side was obviously led by the United States with a number of anti-communist countries. Although Canada did not have any direct connection to the nuclear arms race‚ we were certainly very scared that some day the nuclear war would come into reality therefore destroying the world. In preparation for this‚ Canadians tried peacekeeping as well as building
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Newfoundland‚ Canada in 20 days. Being unfamiliar with the new waters‚ he kidnapped two native children‚ and used them to help him navigate. Though the Vikings and European fishermen had ventured to Canada before him‚ he was given credit for “discovering” Canada for the King of France (“Jacques Cartier”‚ Gale). This discovery changed the world in a monumental way by connecting two different nations and cultures that had previously not known of each other‚ leading to France’s colonization of Canada and exploitation
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GENERAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR BOMBS According to the movie‚ TRINITY AND BEYOND: THE ATOMIC BOMB MOVIE‚ on July the sixteenth year 1945‚ at a site called "Trinity"‚ a plutonium bomb ’ was piled and taken up the top of a tower. This plutonium bomb ’ was exploded thereby generating a very high measure of flash light and a fireball that radiated through 0.6 kilometers (0.37 miles) in 2 seconds. The detonative energy or power was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT. This fume grew up
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fulfilled. TOURISM IMPACTS Tourism impacts are the effects that tourists and tourists activities have on a destination. We will be looking at three main types of impacts that tourism can have on a destination. They are environmental‚ socio-cultural as well as economic impacts. The word impact gives a negative meaning however tourism impacts can be both positive and negative on a destination. Environmental Impacts (physical – what can be seen) – It is not possible to develop tourism without incurring
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vironmental Impact Water Issues Washing machines are second only to toilets as the largest water users in the home‚ accounting for 14 percent of household water use. Household water consumption has a significant impact on aquatic life‚ especially when water supplies come from freshwater lakes and streams. The Rio Grande‚ recently named one of the World Wildlife Fund’s Top 10 Rivers at Risk‚ has been so overextracted that saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has begun moving upstream and endangering
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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter Introduction This dissertation focuses on the development of ‘Slow Food’ in Malaysia as stated in the Sin Chew Happy Sunday Special (24 June. 2007‚ p2)‚ that the ‘fast’ lifestyle has been adapted widely all over the world; regardless of work‚ competition‚ production and even eating. In the need of haste‚ people resort to fast food and convenient has resulted in people lack of flavourful‚ quick and healthy food to keep the bodies strong (www.bonjukmalaysia.com)
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The cultural impacts of tourism on the host communities The impact that tourism has on the cultural lives of communities is one of the most important issues debated by tourism researchers and academics today. There is an increasingly growing concern that tourism development is leading to destinations losing their cultural identity by catering for the perceived needs of tourists. Although they take longer to appear‚ the cultural consequences of tourist activity have the potential to be much
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