[edit] Minerals and oil Materials removed from the Earth are needed to provide humans with food‚ clothing‚ and housing and to continually upgrade the standard of living. Some of the materials needed are renewable resources‚ such as agricultural and forestry products‚ while others are nonrenewable‚ such as minerals. The USGS reported in Materials Flow and Sustainability (1998) that the number of renewable resources is decreasing‚ meanwhile there is an increasing demand for nonrenewable resources
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1. Background. Decentralization is a tool to achieve one purpose of the state‚ especially in order to provide better public services and creating public decision-making process more democratic. Decentralization can be realized with the devolution of authority to the levels of government under it. Indonesia’s fiscal decentralization policy initiated in early 2001 has provided a variety of both national and regional implications. At the regional level‚ this policy is an effort to empower local
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Forest management is the maintaining and management of not only the trees in the forest‚ but the streams‚ habitat‚ watersheds‚ and even the decaying trees or logs on the forest floor. Managing our forests is not only important to the wildlife‚ but to our future economy and way of life. We need to continue to save the Oregon forests and help the ecosystems within them because human beings are also part of the ecosystem. By using forest management‚ it can help certain species of wildlife
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Toyota case study Introduction This case study examines the corporate communication in Toyota 2010 Global Vision programme. Consider the vision articulated by Toyota and its alignment with the company’s image with external stakeholders and the internal culture. Is there sufficient alignment between vision‚ culture and image? Is there potential for any gaps to emerge between them? In 2002 Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has adopted 2010 Global Vision programme as a new strategy. The programme
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pressure companies to adopt these recycling and zero-deforestation policies. We should pressure these corporations working in the Amazon to do the simplest of things: frequently replant trees that have been destroyed when possible‚ known as “reforestation.” The Worldwide Fund for Nature warned that a combination of climate change and deforestation could
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Introduction Throughout this assignment I will discuss Structural Adjustment programmes (SAPs) in different economic regions of the world. I will be looking at Tanzania‚ which is part of the SADC‚ To truly understand this‚ one must first understand what SAPs are. “Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) are economic policies for developing countries that have been promoted by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) since the early 1980s by the provision of loans conditional on the
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There was once a time when I escaped the hustles of the world. I found myself walking alone in a dark and lonely street. Trash was scattered everywhere and the street was filled with rats. I was deeply moved and saddened by the frightful sight. While I was walking down the street‚ I saw a boy. The boy had eyes similar to a jaguar’s but showed signs of depression; he was so thin that his bones were clearly outlined under his skin and his clothes were half torn‚ half worn. I approached the boy and
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Backpacker Tourism in Poor Countries While most kinds of tourism attempt to attract tourists with luxurious accommodations and comfortable facilities‚ backpacker tourism differs from other tourism. According to Longman dictionary‚ the term backpacker or independent tourist means “someone who is traveling for pleasure‚ usually with not very much money‚ and who walks or uses public transport and carries a backpack” (Adamowicz et al.‚ 2009‚ p.107). They move from one place to another rather than
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Introduction Climate is a term used to summarise the long term atmospheric elements that cause the short term weather patterns received in a place (“Climate” Britannica 2015). Climate change is the alterations the climate goes through due to a number of factors. These factors can be described as natural or anthropogenic (“Climate Change” Britannica 2015). Natural drivers of climate change are as a result of natural processes such as changes in the solar activity‚ volcanic activity or the Earth’s
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Some environmental problems in Viet Nam today Thai Cong Tung Abstracts Demographic growth‚ urbanization‚ industrialization‚ infrastructure development...are contributing to increase stress on the natural resource base in Viet Nam today. The paper highlighted those stresses : the rural exodus to the cities due to scarce land resources in the countryside‚ the pollution problems in the urban environment‚ the migration of people to forested areas with direct impacts including the deforestation‚ the watershed
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