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66SOUTH AMERICA AND ITS URBANIZATION:Migrating from Rural to Urban Areas
The article, "Globalization and Land-use Transitions in Latin America," focuses on deforestation, conservation, and other changes that have been made to the land; and how they affect the country and the world as a whole. This article caught my...
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77How to Become a Green Consultant
Are you passionate about the environment? Do you like the idea of working as a consultant? This article will tell you how to get started.
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71Replacing Meat With Better Alternatives Can Reverse Climate Change
Your level of meat consumption has a direct impact on your health, the environment, and climate change. Meat can cause heart disease, cancer and obesity. Moreover, today's ecologically unsustainable meat industry is also responsible for environmental damage to land, water, and climate.
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63Combating Suburbia: Plans for a Future of More Sustainable Cities
Urban sprawl happened because of the automobile; by changing how we use the automobile, we can experience a positive shift in our urban setting. That's my two cents, anyway. Read on to see what I mean.
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53Environmental Issues 2011
As we move forward into a decade past the 21st century, the age of technology has left us with the possibility of the impossible. I'm not talking about iPhones or Blackberries, they're nothing compared to our very own human capability of inventions...
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63Incentive, Performance, and Floating Zones
Incentive zoning obtains benefits or amenities from private developers. A developer will provide a desired amenity in return for the city offering density bonuses; this is a way to encourage development in a community that might not otherwise see...
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79What is an optimum population?
Optimum populations consists of good resources, good workforce and good population statistics. All of which are needed for an optimum population, to check on more depth, click my Hub!
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80Tailings Rehabilitation in an Arid Climate
Introduction This report critically analyses the tailings storages facilities presently utilised on a mine site in the Kalgoorlie Mining Region of Western Australia. The mine site is located on a relatively flat elevated plateau with occasional...
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76Risk Assessment and Remedial Measures of Open-Cut Coal Mines
Mine Waste Management and Landform Design 1.0 PART A - ACARP RISK ASSESSMENT 1.1 INTRODUCTION The following report outlines the results of an application of a risk assessment modelling tool to the rehabilitation of...
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75Urban Fringe Farming
We live on a small farm and are surrounded by many other small farms/ranches and some suburban-type homes. Yet we are only 1 mile from city limits and 4 miles from the downtown center. It's a very unique position to be in...a true juxtaposition. ...
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