Sustainable tourism is an industry committed to making a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate future employment for local people. The aim of sustainable tourism is to ensure that development brings a positive experience for the local people, tourism companies and the tourists themselves. But sustainable tourism is not the same as ecotourism. Department of Economic and Social Affairs Commission on Sustainable Development Seventh Session 19-30 April 1999, New
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and consumption of goods and services. Some areas have become increasingly ‘switched on’ due to globalisation as they have been integrated into the global economy, more so in the recent decades. These global hubs need not only natural and human resources in order to become successful but the input of internal migration, international migrants and capital and TNC investment. ‘Switched on’ areas are not always wealthy and can have cheap skilled labour. For example, cities in China have much cheaper
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How important is our world, our country for us? Our country is a like our individual homes. The only difference is that is much bigger and has a lot of family members. Everythings that will happen in our country will absolutely affect us. America is known to be one of the best countries in the whole world because of its economy, military, laws, and rights. However, its gloriousness is on the edge of falling down because of us. We the Americans is considered a threat because of our doing. Destroying
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DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF BALOCHISTAN Introduction Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan with 44 percent landmass of the country but has 5.6 percent of the population. The province which is almost half of the country’s land mass has been receiving least attention by successive governments since independence. Therefore the huge potentials of this province to become a strong economical hub could not be exploited and till today it remains the poorest of all four provinces. Apparently
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WIND ENERGY I. Concept: _ Wind is the movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. In fact, wind exists because the sun unevenly heats the surface of the Earth. As hot air rises, cooler air moves in to fill the void. As long as the sun shines, the wind will blow. And as long as the wind blows, people will harness it to power their lives. _ The terms "wind energy" or "wind power" describe the process by which the wind is used to generate mechanical power or electricity
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Hong Kong (CNN) -- China's extraordinary climb to the world's second largest economy was built on the back of Chinese workers, many of whom left rural farms to migrate for work in coastal factories. But as China's wealth rises, workers are demanding a greater share of the wealth and better access to social services. And as this month's edition of "On China" examines, the young generation of worker are tech savvy, aware of their rights and choosier about where they go for work. "They're on the
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Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Manuals and Guides 52 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission TSUNAMI RISK ASSESSMENT ANDMITIGATION FOR THE INDIAN OCEAN KNOWING YOUR TSUNAMI RISK – AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT June 2009 UNESCO 1 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Manuals and Guides 52 knowing your tsunami risk – and what to do about it Tsunami risk assessment and mitigation for the Indian Ocean; The designation employed and the presentation of material throughout
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STUDENTS IN CAVITE INTRODUCTION The earth’s climate is the result of rapid changes that occur on earth for over the past hundred years. This climate’s condition is actually very vital in the daily living of the people, as its impacts and effects to all parts of the world; as well as to the people living on earth. Climate change is the state where there are climate variations that result to great impacts on human activity. In this connection, the impacts of climate change on the study habits of
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region. Biodiversity is the presence of genetic and species variation of living organism in particular ecosystem in a given time. Hence this is a holistic concept encompassing the genetic , species and ecosystem diversity which bear the imprint of spatial and temporal change. The term was first used by Walter G.Rosen in 1986. Biodiversity has multidimensional effect on human living ,its economy and his environment. Ecological services of biodiversity to human is in term
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Water is the natural resource that man and all other living creatures cannot do without. In fact, it is one thing scientists look for in other planets to confirm possible sources of life. For us humans, it is so important that in 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin said that “the wars of the next century would be fought over water” and not oil. Unfortunately, water is also one resource that we always take for granted and end up wasting through inefficient use and pollution.To make matters
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