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15 Cards in this Set
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importance of humans on landscape
Vitousek 1986 |
humans are 19-40% net primary production: 30.7 % on land, and 2.2% on sea
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Importance of humans on landscape
Rojstaczer 2001 |
10-55% of terrestrial photosynthetic production
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Global urbanization
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people move form rural to urban environemtn
develop world: now stablilized but high urban population developing world: now changing drastically -more are moving to the city lagest growth rate in developing world |
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Urbanization
pros and cons |
this is the most efficient way to live
- city can provide better for human needs but in developing countries they cant handle such population growth -lots of traffic, no housing, losing jobs, polluted especially for the rural uneducated ---so they go into ghettos that are realy vilent and unsafe |
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Urbanization
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growth of urban centers due to immigration
- unavoidable result of population growth cities built: a lot has to do with railroads: access to transportation is huge |
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urban sprawl
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spread of low density urban or suburban development outward from an urban center
-remove people from industrial core may become more gentrified later: allow development of larger more natural lots development of second homes |
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how to measure sprawl
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low density residential: pop and housing density
distant separation of homes: over 1 acre plots lack of city centers difficult street networks: moreneed for cars- longer transports |
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problems wth sprawl
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transportation: road networks and problems with mass transit
pollution: more CO2 =more road runoff over all area health: less walking land use: larrger land use for same population size ---displace farmland economics: take more tax $ to facilitate the same number of people |
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exurban
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in between rural and suburban
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exurban development
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conventional: smaller lots with little vegetation and lots of roads
better: bigger lots, indigenous landcover lower road density |
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Transportation problems
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buses aren't much better than cars
cars have parking issues |
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transportation solutions
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Railway
-benefits all -lower traffic fatalities -lower expenditures -cheaper -lower private vehicle mileage -lower transit operating cost help with congestion really help with larger cities |
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Second Homes
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with increased ease of transportation--people can use econd houses on weekends and vacation time
the houses are getting bigger big footprints purchase give tax incentives Florida keys: 24% homes are seasonal Cape May: 48% seasonal |
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Maintaining local green space
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purchase second home to get away from congestion
parks in the city are waysto do with |
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green belts
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keep agri land the same even if build houses on it
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