...In recent years, Australia’s population has increased significantly due to immigration. The growth rate of its population was 2.1% in 2010, which is higher than that of in China, US and Canada. It is predicted to reach 36 million in 2050. However, both positive and negative impacts come into being because of ‘Big Australia’. It impacts on environmental, social and economical issues in Australia. This essay will examine the influences of high population growth rate in Australia, and it will determine whether the measures should be taken by Australia government so that the population growth will be decreased. Large immigration in Australia has positive outcomes. Encouraging migrants can fill opening in the Australia job market. For example, there are lots of scarce jobs in Australia, such as male nurses and teachers. Encouraging migrants attracts lots of people who have enrich work experience of those scarce jobs to come to Australia, as a result of it, the jobs of male nurses and teachers can be enriched. For instance, skilled migrants can fill jobs as the reason that Negative outcomes also need to be considered with the large immigration. Firstly, there are not enough water resources for those migrants to drink. Australia is a country of lacking water seriously, if too much migrants immigrate to Australia, there would be not enough water afforded to Australian residents and migrants. Secondly, the houses for migrants to live are not enough. If Australia government build...
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...|SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH & COMMUNITY MEDICINE | | |UNSW BLACKBOARD ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET | | |FAMILY NAME: |HENDRAWIJAYA |GIVEN NAME: |FELYA | |STUDENT NO: |3360382 |EMAIL: |Felya.hendrawijaya@hotmail.com | |PHONE (H): | |PHONE (W): | | |MOBILE: |0425067879 |FAX: | | |COURSE NO: |GENM0510 |COURSE NAME: | MANAGING MEDIA | |LECTURER: |DAVID THOMAS |DUE DATE: |21 December 2012 | |ASSIGNMENT: |FINAL ASSIGNMENT |QUESTION NO: | | For group assignments, please submit one cover sheet for the group, and list members of your group here: |Name |Student ID Number ...
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...Underlined - needs to be reworked to sound better Examine the sustainability of Australia's population sustainability. The rate of population growth in Australia is higher than many other countries in the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), as well as levels of resource use and per capita energy consumption ( Sustainable Futures: Linking Population, Resources and the Environment). In Australia, the rate of population growth has increased since the mid 2000s, causes are net overseas migration and natural increase with an average of one birth every minute and 45 seconds. However overseas migration is the main contributor, making up about 60% of population growth. In 2011, Australia's population increased to over 22 million people and (http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/3105.0.65.001) each year in Australia the population increases by about 400,000 people (http://www.tai.org.au/sites/defualt/files/Population%20Paper%20FINAL.pdf)....
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...Michael Hill International Limited (MHI) | Individual Case Report: External Analysis | Table of Contents Report Purpose 3 Company Overview 3 Background of Michael Hill International Limited 3 Environmental factors affecting the Jewellery Industry & Michael Hill International Ltd 4 Industry Analysis 10 Strategic issues and problems for the Jewellery industry 10 Future of the industry 12 Company Analysis 12 Competitor analysis 14 Conclusion 14 References 18 Report Purpose To conduct an external analysis on Michael Hill International limited (MHI) to establish whether the firm is in a favourable industry and ultimately their position among their rivals. It will consist of industry analysis including; key industrial driving forces, potential emerging trends affecting the macro-environment of the industry that might transfer onto Michael Hill International Ltd as well as, their competitors in the industry. The main strategic issues for the industry will be identified and their implications on Michael Hill International Ltd will be outlined/described. Company Overview Background of Michael Hill International Limited In 1979, Michael Hill opened his first signature jewellery store (Michael Hill Jewellery) in Whangarei and entered into the New Zealand jewellery industry. Fast-forward 33 years, Michael Hill International Limited together with its 13 subsidiaries, has become one of the largest manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers...
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...POPULATION GROWTH AND THE PRESSURES IT PLACES ON EARTHS RESOURCES World population has rapidly increased in the last century and has now reached a staggering seven billion, raising alarming concern for the sustainability of our planet. Rapid population growth and economic development are increasing the demands on natural resource stocks (Orimoogunje, 2011). Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to become the primary source of population increase (United, 2002), yet lack of infrastructure represents one of the most significant limitations to economic growth, environment management and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (Paul M. Pronyk, 2007). Uneven resource consumption is wasteful and contributes to the maldistribution of basic resources in developing countries. Studies show that high income earning countries constitute a smaller number of the population, but consume nature’s resources much faster than developing countries; this adds to the inequality of the world and compromises the stability of our ecosystems to support population growth (Kemp, 2004). The global population is expanding and human resource consumption rates are increasing adding to the environmental problems we face today. During the last century alone, global population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 7 billion (World population). In the gap between when my parents were born and I was born the population has roughly doubled from 2.25 billion in the late 1940’s to 4.5 billion in the early...
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...COLLAPSE HOW S O C I E T I E S CHOOSE TO FAIL OR S U C C E E D JARED DIAMOND VIK ING VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi—110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England First published in 2005 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 13579 10 8642 Copyright © Jared Diamond, 2005 All rights reserved Maps by Jeffrey L. Ward LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed/Jared Diamond. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-670-03337-5 1. Social history—Case studies. 2. Social change—Case studies. 3. Environmental policy— Case studies. I. Title. HN13. D5 2005 304.2'8—dc22...
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...Hanndia Pest Control Services Pty Ltd. Introduction: This company specializes in working with real estate agencies to manage white ant infestation on rental properties. They do so by applying environmentally friendly fumigation barriers. Their main office is located in the Brisbane City Council suburb of Calamvale in South Eastern Queensland. They have a total of about 20 employees. This includes the manager field officers and administrative support. According to the Australian Bureau of statistics 2006 population growth reading the local Brisbane City Council population was 971,757 persons at a median age of about 34.9. That was their highest growth in the population. The population of Brisbane has shown an increase of 2.3% since then. Therefore the population increase is a benefit to Hanndia Pest Control services. As the population increases more homes will be built and more properties will be rented. The need for ongoing protection from white ant infestation will grow as well. The Residential Tenancy Authority (RTA) recorded the number of residential bonds held. There were 114,035 dwelling, including 49,740 house dwellings. The rental bonds were lodged by either private owners or real estate agencies managing these dwellings. Occupation Education and Income: Hanndia Pest Control Services will target real estate agents who support the upper market investment home owner. They will be in a professional agency managing the dwellings for the owners that have professional or...
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...------------------------------------------------- Population growth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The estimated size of human population from 10,000 BCE–2000 CE. 'Population growth' refers to the growth in human populations. Global population growth is around 80 million annually, or 1.2% p.a. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1925 to 7 billion in 2012. It is expected to keep growing to reach 11 billion by the end of the century. Most of the growth occurs in the nations with the most poverty, showing the direct link between high population growth and low standards of living. The nations with high standards of living generally have low or zero rates of population growth. Australia's population growth is around 400,000 annually, or 1.8% p.a., which is nearly double the global average. It is caused mainly by very high immigration of around 200,000 p.a., the highest immigration rate in the world. Australia remains the only nation in the world with both high population growth and high standards of living. Population[1] | Years Passed | Year | Billion | - | 1800 | 1 | 127 | 1927 | 2 | 33 | 1960 | 3 | 14 | 1974 | 4 | 13 | 1987 | 5 | 12 | 1999 | 6 | 12 | 2011 | 7 | 14 | 2025* | 8 | 18 | 2043* | 9 | 40 | 2083* | 10 | * UNFPA United Nations Population Fund estimate 31.10.2011 | Contents [hide] * 1 Determinants of population growth * 2 Population growth rate * 3 Excessive growth and decline * 4 Human population growth rate * 5 Growth by country ...
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...IMPACTS OF GROWING POPULATION IN MT. MATUTUM PROTECTED LANDSCAPE ROLANDO T. VISAYA & JOCIEL M. TECSON Students ERM - 216 Submitted to: MARIE ANTONETTE S. PAŇA, MSc ERM ERM 216 – DYNAMICS OF POPULATION, RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENT University of Southeastern Philippines, Obrero, Davao City ERM 216– DYNAMICS OF POPULATION, RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENT ROLANDO T. VISAYA, JOCIEL M. TECSON TERM PAPER I. Executive Summary Increasing population is contributing serious environmental threat on all component of the natural environment particularly on Mt. Matutum Protected Landscape (MMPL). Impact of man’s activities on all component of the natural environment on MMPL particularly the effect of increasing population, resource exploitation, and industrial advancement. Matutum is one of the vital ecosystems that significantly fuels the economy of the SOCSKSARGEN (South Cotabato-Sultan Kudarat-SaranganiGeneral Santos City) growth corridor of Southeastern Mindanao and of Region XII. Its forest resource provides invaluable benefits from various wood based products for both domestic and export consumption. The plant and animal species found in the forests offer vast potentials as renewable sources of food, fiber, medicine and materials for industrial uses while its natural features provide aesthetics and recreation. It is an important watershed serving as headwater and catchment of several major drainages in the area. It supplies 25 percent of the water requirement...
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...Biology 2F03: Lecture 1 Chapter 2: Life on Land • • • • • • • • Labs start on the Sept 17 Why horses and cattle help restore Guanacaste forest of Costa Rica? o This forest was in decline for thousands of years, when Indians colonized central America, it caused its decline. o Its regenerated when the Europeans came with the cattle o The trees only produce a new plant after processes: the fallen fruit has to be eaten by a larger animal (mule, or horse or cow) à it has to pass through the body and ends up in a pile of fertilizer only then it can regenerate and produce a tree o Why did it evolve to be depended to this process? § There must be animals there in the past, in the past it was a camel (llama, alpaca). When the Indians came from asia (50000 years ago) these animals went extinct and the tree lost its major dispersal system What is the most obvious foundation of life on land? o Is landà soil Climate defines biomes, the ‘shapes’ of vegetation o Defines the major types of land on earth o Temperature and precipitation to be specific Soils in turn greatly affect the aspects (roots, water, nutrient) à rentention, root attachment, etc. Soil typically form layers (horizontal) retaining a range of physical and chemical layers: o Classification of soil: O= organic, A, B, C Soil horizons: description o O: organic, litter on top, fine litter deeper (gets broken down, hence fine), pollen, dead organisms o A: mineral soil, some organic matter...
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...Their experience reveals that such programs do not lead automatically to the resumption of growth, let alone ensure the transition onto a higher growth path. The recent experience of transition economies has shown that price stabilization and opening up may not be enough to achieve a rise in the trend rates of investment and growth. Recognizing this evidence, policy emphasis has shifted to pinpointing complementary policies that will lead an economy from stabilization to growth. The policy debate today focuses on reforms. Ghana immediately after independence made tremendous effort towards achieving full employment and socio economic development through public investment in medium and large scale enterprises. Notwithstanding the direct involvement and the effort of the government, the sector is saddled with a lot of constraints, including scarce capital, intensive technology, foreign exchange constraints, poor management, corruption and inadequate attention to economic viability and market prospects which has resulted in poor performance of the industries in terms of output and employment (Steel & Webster, 1992). Following an economic recession in the 1980’s which resulted in the retrenchment of workers from the civil service, the rationalization of production in the private sector under the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) was launched in 1983, and the high population growth rate of 2.6% per annum, coupled with the inability of the medium and large scale enterprises...
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...this concept, its work and how they compare in terms of benefits and disadvantages is necessary for successful counseling. Legal and ethical issues must also be considered when counseling clients. The arguments about contraception fall into several groups: * philosophical arguments such as the "natural law" argument * arguments based on different ideas of marriage, sex and the family * human rights arguments such as * 'procreative liberty' * a woman's right to control her own body * human rights arguments about mass birth control programs * arguments based on the good or bad consequences of birth control (consequentialism) * arguments about the environmental and resource problems caused by over-population * religious arguments Background of the Study The Reproductive Health Bill, popularly known as the RH Bill, is a...
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...HUE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ------***------ NGUYEN VAN TUAN TRANSLATION 5 HUE - 2006 1 INTRODUCTION TRANSLATION 5 is a basic course book written for the second-year students of the Department of English, College of Foreign Languages, Hue University. It is intended to equip the students with an overview of translating Vietnamese and English scientific texts. It also helps the students get familiar with the terms related to science and technology as well as the typical structures frequently used in scientific and technological texts. Since the course book has been written for the students to learn either by themselves or in class with a teacher, there will be a course book and assignments. The course book contains the Vietnamese and English socio-politic texts with notes and suggested translations. The assignments contain the Vietnamese and English socio-politic texts that will be translated into either English or Vietnamese by the students. By the end of the course, the students will be able to: - obtain general knowledge of the Vietnamese and English scientific and technological documents. - get familiar with and effectively use scientific and technological terms and typical structures of scientific and technological texts in their translations. - accurately translate scientific and technological texts into English and Vietnamese. On the completion of this course book, I would like to express...
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...Problems with population growth For two consecutive years since 2009, the population has grown just 0.7% a year, down from annual increases around 1% in previous years and the lowest since the late 1930s. The U.S. gained 2.2 million people from 2010 to 2011, fewer than the 2.8 million added a decade earlier, reaching a total of 311.6 million. (El Nasser, 2012) The recent rapid increase in human population over the past two centuries has raised concerns that the planet may not be able to sustain present or larger numbers of inhabitants. Steve Jones, head of the biology department at University College London, has said, "Humans are 10,000 times more common than we should be". (Gibbens, 2011) Population growth has caused many environmental problems, such as rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, global warming, and pollution, all aggravated by the population expansion. In 1800 the economy passed one billion inhabitants. But the rising numbers are having some serious effects, population growth has already caused climate change, rising sea levels, extinction of wildlife and expanding deserts. Existence has been fuelled by the depleting resources that are fossil fuels, minerals, groundwater, soil, forests and fisheries rather than natural income. (Martin, 2011). Other problems associated with overpopulation include the increased demand for resources such as fresh water and food, starvation and malnutrition, consumption of natural resources faster than the rate of regeneration...
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...Effects of over population in Mexico City There are parts of the world that have an alarming overpopulation rate, one of these locations is Mexico city which is located in the Federal District, Capital of the Country of Mexico. Mexico City's enormous population continues to rapidly increase every day. With approximately 20 million residents; up from 9 million only 20 years ago, Mexico City is considered the most populous urban center on earth. There are many people in the country of Mexico who move to Mexico city because they feel that there are better life and employment opportunities there, however there are also hundreds of people that are born there every year and these factors contribute even more to its overcrowding and overpopulation. Mexico City has a poor living habitat because it is located in the Valley of Mexico, and is highly vulnerable to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. These natural disasters have caused much destruction making these grounds to be weak and dry, never the less the city is rapidly diminishing water supply which adds a danger problem to the overcrowding of its population. Once its water supply is gone, the only way to receive water will be to transport it from across the mountains. Not only does the city have to pipe water in, but it also has to pipe the sewage out of waste-filled areas. This would be a very expensive undertaking and could cost Mexico City a large amount of money. In...
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