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    New Urbanism: Serenbe

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    suffer from a lack of exposure to nature, Serenbe is a successful experiment of what a healthy and social community should be. With urban and rural…

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    Agriculture plays a vital role in Australian social, economic and environmental sustainability. With approximately 134,000 farms businesses, Australian farmers produce around 93% of Australia’s daily domestic food supply. In 2010-11, there was 307,000 people employed in Australian agricultural industries including affiliated food and fiber industries. (Chirp, 2016) Current Agricultural Production The agricultural sector, at the farm gate, contributes 3% to Australia’s gross domestic product. In…

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    “agricultural revolution” was a higher human population. Lastly and pretty rhetorical, is the demise of hunter-gathers. Of course there were still hunter-gathers even after the “agricultural revolution”, but with the number of farmers and those in favor of agriculture highly outnumbering hunter-gathers, it was easy for them to run these hunter-gathers out of their land. As a result, hunter-gathers were given…

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    Urban Migration Essay

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    In general, people want to move from rural to urban areas because there are many opportunities such as job, education and health in the cities where people migrate. This leads to the development and growth of cities. But, sometimes people have to make forced migration or they enter the country illegally. If these migrations get out of control, the city will be adversely affected such as crime rate, unemployment, air, land and water pollution. If these problems are increased, it disrupts social…

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    Drought In California

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    This fact can be observed through policies created by the government as well as innovations and new water management techniques. The drought has made a serious impact on agriculture, but the rest of California’s economy has been stable. During the drought, groundwater levels have been severely depleted and certain fish species have almost reached extinction. Even with all the negative results that have occurred, positive outcomes…

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    Rohana Case Study

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    maintain close relationship with Rohana. In Rohana there were two dynasties named as “kajaragama” areola and “chandangama” areola. Fisheries industry and agriculture were the chief mean of livelihood of the inhabitants of ancient Ruhuna…

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    Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The…

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    Karl Marx And Adam Smith

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    misery is derived from industry and the hegemony of those who are not workers. Additionally, by moving to urban areas and struggling for employment in factories, the “primitive familial union” was “disintegrated” (637), meaning that the rural migration decimated family dynamics of the time (most likely for the worse). Inciting rural migration caused countless groups of people to collect in the urban environment and Marx believed this change would “[concentrate] the historical motive power of…

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    Food Instability Scenarios

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    progress is affected by unemployment, poverty, income inequality amongst others. OECD should work with the government of Botswana and the bank of Botswana to develop policies and get an amount allocated to facilitate growth in other key areas such as agriculture, infrastructure, services etc. Also, OECD should consider working with the government and persuading them to build inter industry links. As an example, processing iron ore locally by using thermal coal which is locally available. Thus,…

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    cannot take place without the exchange of information and are often heavily dependent on the availability of suitable finance. Agricultural marketing Agricultural marketing: The term agricultural marketing is composed of two words-agriculture and marketing. Agriculture, in the broadest sense means activities aimed at the use of natural resources for human welfare, and marketing connotes a series of activities involved in moving the goods from the point of production to the point of consumption.…

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