Land Masses Case Study

The Effects of Human Activity on Coastal Landforms Human activities add another layer of complexity to the natural processes of coastal lands and materials. These activities may have direct or indirect effects on our changing coastlines. They may effect sources of new sediment to the coast and the movement of sediment within the coastal environment. Sediment starvation caused by river and coastal management is one effect of human activities on the coast. For some coastal regions, such as the Pacific coast, a large part of their sediment is supplied by rivers.

The world is linked into a global civilization in many ways. First of all, everyone in the world needs food, water, and shelter to survive healthily. Therefore, since everyone needs those things, everyone is linked into a worldwide civilization that strives to have food, water, and shelter. The environment and its natural resources and climate problems affect the whole world also link us all together. All of the factors that are common to everyone around the world like food and climate change, link us into a global

Unit 4 Chapters 2-4 are about physical geography, humans, and cultures. Physical Geography is the branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes. The way it works together is mainly by physical geography. One happens naturally as the other evolves, and one lives a harder life than the other. Physical geography has had its effects on humans and its culture/society, but what came out of it was amazing.

No one was spared and global chaos took hold. Because of the failure for nations to build strong international cooperation there was no system in place to fix the problem. The economy had gone global, but the political system was still only national. The failure of the U.S. to ratify the League of Nations and the discontent among western powers left the world disordered.

Huxley saw this reflected in the United States; “When the decade of the 1920s began, Americans were anxious to forget the world war...Americans sought to keep the world at bay, clamoring for immigration restrictions to protect their culture against the perceived threat of foreign radicals, to reduce economic competition from immigrant workers, and to prevent a general bombardment of the United States with heterogeneous religious beliefs and cultural values” (“Government”). Uniformity is no doubt a vital step towards a one-world government. As exemplified in Brave New World with the World State, such a tactic was the sole uniting force behind its success: stability through standardization. Having the same goal today, the UN has enlisted the establishment of a one-world-government on their agenda. How do they plan on accomplishing it in fifteen years? “The plan bypasses Congress and the legislatures of the world’s other 193 nations. Yet, the heads of state agreed to work toward implementation, largely through secret trade deals and backroom bureaucratic rule-making” (Hohmann). Nevertheless, accomplishing such a task is challenging. Still, it is something yearned for.

LandWorks is established on work-based training and goes hand in hand with developing life social skills. Through being involved in a positive and non-judgmental work place, prisoners develop the confidence, self-belief and responsibility (Hall, 2014). Being involved with LandWorks the prisoners become more comfortable with you and it is often that prisoners will ask you to describe them (or what you think of them). After a certain period of time prisoners become deeply affected by the ‘prison system’: Just to survive they trust nobody, display no kind of emotions and toughen up, they easily and quickly isolate themselves away from any kind of opportunity to express their inner emotions (Parsons, 2016).

Forced Displacement is a consequence that occurs due to the conflict going on in Columbia. Different groups seek to gain land and have territorial advantages over others, mainly utilizing fear as a tactic to do so. What is interesting in Columbia’s scenario is that the displacement is dispersing internally throughout many of the regions of the country versus causing migration into surrounding states. This seems as it would be an even more difficult task to take care of. This displacement leaves to very poor areas with higher crime. It also severely impacts those who are displaced directly and is not good for the country to progress forward. The internal conflict that rages on in Columbia makes it difficult to fix the mess that has been created

Germanic society meets Slavic society in this locale that straddles east and west, with noteworthy towns, tall tale palaces, brew, woods, untainted farmland, and mountain reaches, including the powerful Alps. Europe's rich agrarian and modern differing qualities has made the landmass a focal point of exchange and trade for a considerable length of time. It is halfway situated between the two other "Old World" main lands, Africa and Asia. This custom of trade provoked the early and fast urbanization of the landmass, unmistakable in numerous dynamic urban communities that make up the greater part of Europe. Ranger service, the administration of trees and other vegetation in backwoods, is a vital industry in Europe. Woodland commercial enterprises create more than $600 billion consistently. Ranger service and timber commercial enterprises utilize 3.7 million individuals, and record for 9 percent of Europe's assembling (GDP).

The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography by Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen addresses the issues of the current conventions with how we see and divide the world; i.e. East/West, First-,Second-, and Third-World, Eurocentric vs. Rest of the World-Centric. The book raises some important questions and topics, but falls short of providing solutions to the topics that they address.

A huge part that makes the Earth different from any other planet is the diverse environments or biomes that make up the lands. The different environments help create the different cultures around the world which help shape people personalities and their everyday lifestyle. Each biome has different factors in them that describe them which are their cultures and the three main types of land biomes are the tundra, grassland/desert and forest.

Geography divides the land surface into seven groups. These groups represent the large land divisions of the earth’s surface, which are called continents. Antarctica, the region about the South Pole is called a continent because of its great land size. The islands of which there are many, are considered a part of the continent closest to

Land use change and hydrology is linked with each other and changing in one can affect the other in this earth system. Rapid growth of urbanization and industrial revolution led to the construction of new buildings, roads etc. which not only increase the impervious cover and alter land surface but also affect hydrological cycle and climate (Elvidge et al., 2004). Low-density housing developments (suburban and exurban areas), have rapidly expanded throughout the U.S. over the last 60 years to accommodate the growing population and as a result changing the landscape as well as resource management (Brown et al., 2014). According to US environmental Protection Agency urban development is a well-documented cause of increase impervious surface, hydrologic

Climate and topography are two very important factors that may influence industries profitability and productivity. Is important for business leaders to recognize how climate and topography factors impacts different industries. Recognizing climate and topography could be of assistance for businesses venturing into the global business environment arena. Climate and topography are factors of huge importance when determining location and strategic planning. One of the industries most affected by climate and topography is the transportation industry.

Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (≅13,800 km). Before GEFE, Fukushima had a population of almost 2 million people, many of whom lived in the capital, Fukushima City. As a result of a diverse geography (high peaked mountains, forests, and over 150km of coastline), Fukushima was a major food production source for Japan. In fact, Nakadori region was the fourth largest agricultural region in Japan, yielding rice, peaches, apples, pears, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Tobacco, raw silk and livestock were major exports from the region and the fishing industry boomed. Since GEFE, Fukushima has dropped from the nation’s fourth-largest rice producer to its seventh, with production reportedly slipping 17% and an estimated 100,000 farmers have lost an estimated 105 billion yen ($1 billion). The fishing industry lost 75% of its workers while the number of commercial fishing boats went from 185,465 to 153,034.

The League of Nations was borne out of collective desire of the nations around the world to prevent war, promote world peace and stability. According to Ebegbulem (2011), the unprecedented destruction and death caused by World War I spurred the victorious nations into formalizing a system of collective security in the form of League of Nations. The primary motive of the League of Nations was to prevent/deter or address any aggression by a state through collective response from other states, thereby ensuring collective security. By ensuring collective security, the member states aimed to discourage an aggressor nation from waging war against the victim nation through the prospect of the aggressor having to face the collective power of the members who were signatories to the ‘League of Nations’. The League of Nations aimed to achieve peace by linking national and international security issues to the promotion of economic development of its member countries (Schwabach & Cockfield, n.d.). The other objectives of the