Geography unit 4 Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism Leisure: Freedom from time-consuming duties, responsibilities, or activities. Tourism: Temporary movement of people to destinations outside places where they normally live and work. Local Recreation: Surfing, hiking, exploring but it all involves your own local area Non-local Recreation: Going somewhere else to find activities e.g. surfing Business and recreational travel: Travel for pleasure e.g. city guides, coach
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emitted through the combustion or burning of fossil fuels such as coals, oils, and natural gas. This happens when vehicles are driven as well as when power plants and industrial plants are utilized. Combustion also called burning is the greatest resource of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. Fossil fuels are burnt for electricity in homes and buildings, also in transportations. Carbon dioxide emissions that result from the industrial processes, deforestation is a serious environmental threat in
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Mammals are known as one of the most unique and fascinating creatures in the world. Making up the class Mammalia, mammals are classified into 26 orders containing 4500 living species around the world which is categorized in the phylum Chordata (Ortleb & Cadice, 1991). During the middle age, a small animal of the size of a dog appeared and was the lineage from the reptiles. Ortleb and Cadice (1991) stated that different from reptiles, mammals are warm-blooded, they give birth and breast feed their
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temperature causing a vast amount of issues. The sign that supports the human cause is abundant and powerful, some say it is normal for the planet to undergo such changes in atmospheric temperature. If we, as humans, do not change the way we use resources, our planet will be doomed for the future. Deforestation is a major topic in today’s era. Man has cut down trees in great amounts that has led to the obliteration of great forests and the lives of countless animals and plant types. We are unsuccessful
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Perception of Environmental Problems in Ghana 16 5.2 Environmental Policy and Implementing Instituitions in Ghana 17 5.2.1 Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) 18 5.2.2 National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) 18 5.2.3 Ghana Environmental REsources Management systems (GERMS) 19 5.2.4 Forest and Wildlife Policy 20 5.2.5 Environment Sanitation Policy (ESP) 20 5.2.6 Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) 20 5.3 Environmental Implementing Instituitions in Ghana 21 5.3.1 Roles of
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PHILIPPINE FOREST Under our constitution, a forest is legally defined as “that portion of the public domain characterized by a predominant growth of trees or wood species, including nipa, mangrove, and all lands of the public domain not classified as agricultural, industrial, commercial, residential, resettlement, minerals or grazing lands”. It is often said that life comes from the forest. It is an area of land where flora and fauna are present. Types of Philippine Forests: * Dipterocarp
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HRM16 1. When you are researching in terms of topics related to your subject HRM16, which one do you want to work on/ research on? Check the topic you want to research on: ___a. issues regarding hotels contribution on the income of the place ___b. making a program so that hotels become more profitable ___c. importance of spa, salon, & resorts in promoting tourism of place ___d. is General Santos City’s tourism booming ___e. are personalities from General Santos City brings big income
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CHINA’S NEW CONCEPT FOR DEVELOPMENT Jiyao Bi1 INTRODUCTION In the first 20 years of the 21st century China is entering a new development stage to comprehensively build a prosperous society and to accelerate its modernization drive. China views these two decades as a period of great strategic opportunity which should be pursued vigourously. From an international perspective, peace and development remain the central themes of our era, and China is working to achieve this peaceful environment for
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Political factor: If Nike wants to open international market such as China, the company would get disadvantages because every country will protect and priority for its domestic products. So, the company must find out exactly these requirements that the country require in Nike to overcome these barriers. International trade regulations The trade regulations in China are formulated in accordance with the "Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China" in order to maintain foreign trade order
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more in cooking meat and fish. Olive oiland butter is also a main ingredient in different dishes. In Albania, meat (lamb, cow, rabbit and chicken) is used heavily in various dishes in most of the country. Seafood specialties are also common in the coastal areas such as Durrës, Vlorë,Shkoder, Lezhe and Sarandë. Vegetables are used in almost every dish. Usually, Albanian farmers grow every vegetable present in the Mediterranean region and sell them at the local Farmers Market. Vegetables are brought
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