movies Flashcards
what happened in 2017
mass tourism in spain caused many protests (angry and violent)
Overtourism
either local people or the tourists feel that the place is overvisited and loses its authenticity
1950 vs 2016
1950- 25mill tourist worldwide
2016= 1.3 billion
why? cheap flights, travel writing ( paid to go to places and write about them),
problem: honeypot cities ( small places that many want to visit), cruiseliners ( environmental destruction), holiday apartments taking local homes, demographics (more middle class, more retiring)
Where is a primary source of data on global human population kept?
The united nations
In what regions of the world will global population grow the most by 2050?
- The least developed countries
-Afghanistan and most of sub-sahara africa will double - Nigarias population to more then triple
Until recently, what factors have kept human population in check?
Nature and environmental limits
What primary factor has resulted in the rapid growth in population by 1800 C.E.?
- Control of death rates
- DR being reduced because infectious diseases have drastically reduced
How much of the world’s fresh water do we appropriate for our own needs?
over half
As of 2009, how many people in the world lack access to clean drinking water?
more then 1 billion
What are some of the factors involved in chronic water shortages globally?
Poor infrastructure, politics poverty, or living in an arid/dry part of the world
How many liters of water is needed to produce a hamburger?
8 thousand liters
what is an effective way for geographers to monitor global food production?
monatizing the land from space
How are developed countries finding more land to produce food for themselves?
foreign investors: target countries for investors such as Africa (some of which already struggle to feed their own people)
In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, what was one of the major factors that led to the conflict that left over 1 million dead in 3 months?
- Competition for scarce reasorces , kill neighbours to gain their land etc
- Today most rawandans live or eat food from their own land
What did Professor William Reece from UBC come up with to measure human carrying
capacity?
The productive biocapacity- take all food water and energy across the world each year and measure it in global hector
How many more global hectares does the United States use compared to the global equitable average allotment defined by William Rees.
The average american uses more then 4 times their fair share compared to the average of 2
What three things does Sir David Attenborough believe we need to do to obtain a sustainable carrying capacity on the planet?
- Stop consuming so many resources
- Change technology
- Reduce pop growth
How is Mexico City working to maintain it’s water supply
No forest, no water so…
-Need to protect and replant the forests
- built a relationship between humans and environment to conserve
