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Human-Environmental Interaction

Tourism

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

Mega Cities

H.E.I

Urbanization

-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

Disasters

-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

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