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GCSE Geography Sustainability
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- 1Define 'Sustainable Development'Meeting the needs of the present without damaging the needs of future generations
- 2What 4 things do the UK focus on to be sustainable?Energy saving / efficiency
Recycling
Sustainable transport schemes
Sustainable development in rainforest environments - 3Case Study: ASDA / WalmartIn Didcot, Oxfordshire, fill 4 skips a week with shrink wrap and polythene to landfill
Mil-tek have solution - use a baler to crush plastic to 10% original size, which can then be recycled - 4Case Study: Nokia44% of old phones sit in draws
Nokia want them to be recycled - would save 240,000 tonnes of raw materials.
Promoting recycling campaign in stores and on website - 5Name 4 sustainable transport schemesPark and Ride
Congestion Charge
Cycle Paths
Barclays / Boris Bikes
Trams
Bus Lanes
Underground Train Networks
Pedestrianisation - 6Case Study: Park and Ride, CambridgePark in a car park by M11 / A14
4,500 parking spaces
Get a bus to the main centre - £2.20 per day
Each bus carries up to 70 people
Busses up to every 10 minutes - 7Case Study: Congestion Charge, LondonIntroduced in 2003. By 2008:
21% less traffic
65,000 fewer cars per day
29,000 more bus users
Money reinvested into public transport - 8RainforestsEstimated over half of all plant and animal species live in tropical rainforest
Produce 40% of earth's oxygen
1/4 of medicines we use from rainforest
1 hectare: 1000 trees, up to 300 species - 9How can rainforests be exploited?Logging, deforestation, extraction of resources underneath (oil, gas, gold, diamond)
- 10Case Study: Effects of rainforest extraction in EcuadorStomach cancer 5x more common
More miscarriages
Toxic waste seeps out of 600 unlined pits - pollutes freshwater and farmland
Plants (periwinkle/ leukemia) endangered - 11Case Study: Rainforest Management, MalaysiaReject building power station as too near to Darvel Bay and Danum Valley - didn't want to pollute
Will not mine at the expanse of rainforest
Will develop eco tourism for money - 12Case Study: Rainforest Management, Madagascar2001 - Givauden wanted to develop new fragrance - permit from government
Share of profits with local community, and conservation and development initiatives - 13Case Study: Rainforest Management, Venezuela2008 - no more gold or diamond mining permits allowed
Will sell oil instead
Government will protect local people and biodiversity
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