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Advantage:
-Brings in jobs: restaurants, boutiques, hotels, and local people profit from this.
-Local people can show off their homeland: tours, guides, expeditions.
Disadvantage:
-Resorts build on unspoiled land, strains local communities: ex. 4k people off a ship for an island of 1k.
-debt building infrastructure for people visiting.
-profits are sent home to the companies HQ
-Mexico City: up to 30 million people are in one area-city, surrounding towns. Slums, crime, unemployment, air pollution, shortage of drinking water all issues from cities this big.
-people from rural areas are leaving for the cities all over Latin America. Search for jobs and a better life.
San Paulo: 12 Million
Lima: 10 Million
Bueno Aires: 17 million
Rio de Janeiro: 6.3 million
Bogota: 7 million.
-Push factor: people are being pushed from farms to find jobs in cities.
Ex. poor education, medicine, low paying jobs.
-H.E.I is all about humans and their environment.
-EX. Terrace farming
Irrigation building
Infrastructure projects
Altering your environment to meet your needs as a society.
-Pull factors: "pull" people from the farms. Ex. high paying jobs, schools
-Slash-and-burn: cut trees, brush, and grasses and burn debris to clear fields.
Within the last year in L.A.:
04/18 Ecuador earthquake: At least 413 people confirmed dead
02/01 Zika: WHO declares global emergency
2015
12/25 Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay flooding displaces 150,000
11/29 Brazil state announces Zika fever emergency
11/05 Brazil dam burst engulfs homes in Minas Gerais
Summary: disasters disrupt governments ability to provide for society
Disasters