consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimization of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution - CO2, methane, and water pollution. It should meet the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore’s land use planning and conservation authority with the mission to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play, striving to create
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=====Overview===== **U**rban housing, also known as slums or favelas, is one of the major challenges faced by Brazil. The slums are social clusters officially known as informal settlements. Those communities have been a big problem, not only in Brazil but all around the world. They are growing at an alarming rate in the big cities due to urbanisation. In global surveys for the most expensive cities for residential properties, the 2 main Brazilian cities are highly ranked, with São Paulo in 10th
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Law, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, Email: mtladan@gmail.com Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 License TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Introduction Brief Overview of the Development of Environmental Law in Nigeria Major Drawbacks of the Defunct Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) Act and Regulations 1991-2006 Lessons Learnt Establishment of NESREA: A New Dawn 5.1 Mandate and Powers of NESREA 5.2
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on government actions to establish land designations and objectives or measures for resource values. Government actions can be established 1 • through land use objectives under the Land Act, • in regulation (e.g. Forest Planning and Practices Regulation), • through actions under authority of the Government Actions Regulation, and • through grand-parented objectives, measures and features established under the Forest Practices Code. 1.1 Overview The Government Actions Regulation
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of all Native Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders live in communities with one or more uncontrolled toxic waste sites, incinerators or major landfills. A recent Greenpeace study found that minorities make up twice as large a population share in communities with these unwanted sites as in communities without them. In 1980 the average minority population near a landfill or hazardous waste facility was about 22%; in 1994 it was 36%. I. INTRODUCTION People of color in the United State and around
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CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR VARANASI (JNNURM) Municipal Corporation, Varanasi Final Report, August 2006 City Development Plan for Varanasi Executive Summary 1.0 Introduction Urban centres have a vital role in India’s socio-economic transformation and change. Urban centres account for 30% of the total populace, notwithstanding, most cities and towns are severely stressed in terms of infrastructure and service availability, and their growth and development is constrained by indifferent
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is developed by considering the two distinct characteristics of this culture : (1) lack of resources in Japan, (2) Japanese working culture (Sugimori et al., 1977). After World War II, Japan was affected excessively - insufficient and unproductive land for agriculture - and this lead them to import huge amount of raw materials especially food. Therefore, imbalance of import and export appeared. Since Japan is in a disadvantegeous position about these reasons, it is important to reduce the production
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Kristal Steward BUSA 3000 International Business October 27, 2013 Panama is located between Colombia and Costa Rica in Central America. Panama is literally a land bridge between North and South America, and its territorial size is slightly smaller than North Carolina. Panama has a population of approximately 3,608,431 people. 70 percent are Mestizo (Mixed Amerindian and white), 14 percent Amerindian and mixed (West Indian), 10 percent White, and 6 percent Amerindian. Panama has one of the fastest
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been one cause for a decrease in mine related employment in Appalachia. One reason mountaintop removal is undesirable is the amount of change and damage it creates. There are six stages to mountaintop removal: clearing, blasting, digging, dumping waste, processing, and reclamation. First the trees and vegetation are clear cut or in some instances bulldozed and pushed into a pile and burned. Then a pad is leveled and a series of holes are drilled where dynamite or ammonia nitrate is placed and section
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Introduction Malaysia economic development strategy, since the introduction of New Economic Policy has hastened the development process in the following years especially 1980s - 90’s decade. Development was further speeded up in 2000s with the nation vision of achieving an industrialized status by year 2020. However, the rapid development process sometimes was carried out without really taking into consideration, that the possibility of such development will impacts on the environment, in this case
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