| |7.2 The impact that tourism has had on people and their environment | |7.2 The impact that tourism has had on people and their environment in a| |in an MEDC Ayia Napa‚ Cyprus | |LEDC. | | | |Zanzibar‚ East Africa
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Evaluate the strategies used to reduce the impact of tectonic hazards. Tectonic hazards are comprised of earthquakes and volcanoes; they are named ‘tectonic hazards’ as it is ultimately the movement of tectonic plates that cause these events. These hazards have the potential to kill thousands and devastate the region it strikes. Although the main hazard causes destruction‚ events that follow can be equally‚ if not more‚ devastating‚ for example an earthquake can often trigger a tsunami. Many strategies
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question: no. Though‚ it is necessary to moderate what we have just said. These four categories are intertwined and can have effects on one another; so what is measured by economic indexes will also reflect the other concepts of the word development. I) MEDC More Economically Developed Countries These countries usually possess a high GNP/GDP: United States: 24‚700 per capita (ranked 2nd) Luxembourg: 22‚600 per capita (ranked 5th) France: 18‚200 per capita (ranked 14th) SOURCE: 1995 CIA WORLD
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To some extent‚ any human settlement around the world situated close to or on top of an area of seismic activity is vulnerable. However‚ not all nations suffer equal devastation. 90% of hazard related deaths occur in LEDCs but 75% of hazard related economic losses occur in MEDCs. These figures highlight the vast differences in scale but also the type of impacts nations’ experience. This is largely due to the level of management in place before and after an earthquake has struck. But the level of
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2011 Ireland’s real GDP is expected to fall by more than 10%. Explain what is meant by this‚ and examine the extent to which measure of national income are an accurate reflection of living standards in more economically developed countries (MEDCs). Being an MEDC‚ Ireland is one of the few economically developed countries being tipped to fall in real GDP from 2009 to 2011. To reiterate‚ Ireland have not been making positive progress in terms of their economic growth‚ so their real GDP is indicating
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had strong farming subsidies (difficult for LEDCs to export). - Japan and remainig G7 had discussions over tariffs. In 1995 GATT was fucked and replaced by the WTO(World Trade Organization) WTP serves interests of developing countries in four ways (reasons why LEDCs became members): 1-facilitates trade reforms
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‘The extent to which volcanic processes represent hazards depends on where and when they occur’. Discuss this statement A hazard can be defined as a situation that poses a threat to life‚ health‚ property or the environment. The severity and type of volcanic hazards that occur are mainly dependent on the type of magma. Volcanic processes can be split into two categories – primary hazards and secondary hazards. The primary hazards that can occur are pyroclastic flows‚ lava flows‚ tephra and poisonous
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they may argue that it is the responsibility of MEDCs as they are the one’s who emit the most carbon dioxide. They may believe that as they are not the one’s contributing highly to climate change they should not invest money into tackling it. This money could be used for things such as food‚ clothing and medicine which they may believe are more important than helping the climate. Why should developing countries have to suffer for the damaged MEDCs are doing just to live luxurious lives. This is why
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homeless and without proper shelter. There were many reasons why so many people died in the Pakistan Earthquake. One reason is that Pakistan is an LEDC (Low economically developed country) because their GNP per capita (the total value of all the goods and services produced by a country in a year‚ divided by the total population) was $460‚ whereas Japan‚ a MEDC‚ had $39‚ 460‚ which shows a big difference to the amount of wealth between the two countries. This means that the investment into the strength
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World Conference on Disaster Reduction Hyogo Framework Solutions Community work Tackling the Challenge Mali Using technology‚ soil conservation schemes Reality: Ecosystems very sensitive. High vulnerability. Limited adaptive capacity in LEDCs Benefits: Longer growing season north Extreme weather affects crops Farmland taken up by plants for biofuels Climate change = more famine in Africa‚ S.America‚ Asia Rapid changes mean people don’t have time to adapt EG Amazon Water Shortages
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