It borders both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on its southern end. Until 1939, Qatar’s economy consisted mostly of pearl-fishing in the gulf. However, massive discovered oil and natural gas reserves made the country into a massive exporter of fossil fuels (85% of current exports earnings), with the majority of its economy built on this. Today, because of this massive industry, Qatar is the richest country in the world, and has one of the highest per-capita GDPs. However, global warming would have a dramatic effect on the geography of Qatar. Due to its flat topography surrounded by water, sea level rise would take a massive amount of land away from the country (18% of land area with a 5m sea level rise). With 96% of the population living along the coast, this would be devastating. The desert (82mm of rainfall per year) also has a scarcity of drinkable water, forcing it to use desalinization of sea water and the small amount of groundwater…
Sao Paulo is not only the largest city in Brazil but it is also one of the top countries in the world with the worst traffic. There is a population of about 18 million people with about 6.3 million cars 650,000 motor cycles, 35,000 taxis and 17,000 busses. To make things worse there are also 1,000 new cars added a day. There have been traffic jams stretching up to 293 km of traffic. Naturally, with numbers like these there is bound to be some traffic. However, there are also 19,000 trucks that pass through Sao Paulo every day. These trucks cause damage to roads and therefore, cause a chain of reaction ending in increased traffic.…
On 2 December 2010 it was announced that Qatar would host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, after the FIFA Executive Committee voted in a secret ballot in Zurich. The government of Qatar’s successful proposal bid defeated four other candidates to stage the 2022 edition of the world’s greatest sporting event: Australia, Korea Republic, Japan and the United States of America.…
By 2030, Qatar intends to be an advance society that is capable of sustaining its development and providing a high standard of living for its people. The National Vision addresses 4 major challenges facing Qatar: Human development, Social Development, Economic development and Environment development.…
Nearly 5,000 Canadians reside and work in Qatar. As of June 2011, Qatar Airways are offering direct flights between Montreal and Doha three times per week. This should make it easier for individuals to travel between Canada and Qatar and promote trade development. Trade relations between Canada and Qatar are expected to expand significantly over the coming years as Qatar’s economy continues to grow apace and as Canadian exporters and investors become more familiar with the unparalleled infrastructure-based opportunities it offers. In 2009, Canadian exports to Qatar were valued at $223.88 million. Areas of growth include gas-based industries, construction, healthcare, education, and high tech.…
In recent years, the Olympic Games have developed into one of the most significant mega-international sporting events (Roche,2000). More and more cities are bidding to host the Olympics and increasingly money are invested in Olympic bids, which is due to the reason that the government believe that they could get benefits from such an event. During the proceeding of the 2012 London Olympic Games, amount of people in the world have been brought into focus on Olympic Games. It is such a big event, holding it successfully will improve one country’s reputation and get more attention around the world. Does holding the Olympic Games have benefits for the host country? It might be said that hosting Olympic Games has some financial risks because of its exceeding budgets. Countries invest huge number of money on sports facilities, which could result in the over-needed of infrastructure. However, there are many reasons why a country should organize Olympic Games.…
Qatar, also known as the State of Qatar, is an Arab country in the Middle East. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south; on the other hand, the Persian Gulf surrounds the state. A strait of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island nation of Bahrain. Qatar is a nation of abundant oil and gas. It has the third largest gas reserves and the second highest GDP per capita in the world. An absolute monarchy, Qatar has been ruled by the al-Thani family since the mid-19th century. Nowadays, Qatar is an independent state with tremendous oil and natural gas revenues (The World Factbook, 2010).…
The world is becoming increasing populated and cities are beginning to grow at a very fast rate. Governments will need to come up with a suitable transport plan for the citizens. More people will result in more transport and the majority of people travel by car, this poses two problems – road congestion and pollution.…
officials are interested in exploring ways to solve the traffic issues. The research in this…
Qatar has been ruled absolutely by Al-Thani family since the mid 19th century. Formerly a British protectorate noted for pearl hunting, it became independent in 1971. Since, then it has become one of the region’s wealthiest states because of its enormous oil and natural gas revenues.…
Ahmed, Mansour . “ Interview by Ahmed Mansour. Bela Hudood: Qatar 's role in the international arena (April 1 2012). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seiABoeLxDo…
Traffic congestion has existed since many years ago and continually remains a major problem in most cities all over the world, especially in the urban areas of developing regions. Congestion occurs when the number of vehicles using on the road is larger than the capacity of the available road space, hindering the efficient traffic situation (Dr Peter Frost, 17 April 2013). Traffic represents the sign of a dynamic economy. However, excessive congestion leads to a lot of unexpected consequences comprising environment pollution, more fuel wastage and increased monetary losses, such as more costs to the community because of longer, less predictable travel time, additional vehicles costs, heavily pollution by increased usage of low-grade fuel because of more vehicles running on the road.…
I’m sure that all of us have gotten tired already with this classic problem of our country. How many time in our life have we wasted already only for traffic jam? This may seem trivial, but truly, this has been severe enough to cost us a lot. Not only is that it physically damage us, but also mentally and materially. What can be done over this problem? What actually went wrong? A lot of factors cause traffic jam actually, but the one thing that I believe matter the most is the existence of our sufficient public transportation, or should I say the NON-existence of it. Because really, public transportation is a very important service that every society need, and unfortunately it can be said that our country is so lacking in providing an efficient public transportation. How do I come with this claim? First evidence would be to take a look on the street and see what kind of public transportation that we have, how many people that really uses it, and finally have our traffic jam stopped? The fact that happens on the street is that our public transportation is not efficient enough to attract our people. So a lot of us eventually choose to use our own vehicle. So as we can see, the logic is, the more people riding their private ride on the street rather than using the same public transportation together, means the more crowded our street become. This eventually leads to the over-capacity on the street, and obviously, the lack of space to cover such a lot of vehicles, causes the traffic jam.…
Qatar is considered as a very high human developed country, it is ranked at the 36 th place on…
Bangladesh is a densely populated country. . Like other countries in the world, Bangladesh has also been experiencing in-tense traffic problem which is increasing day by day. It is becoming one of the most intolerable and burning issues for the country. Traffic congestion is a common occurrence almost in all the cities of Bangladesh. Among the major urban cities like Dhaka , Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi especially the Dhaka city is now facing serious traffic problem along with many other problems like sewage , electricity etc. Due traffic jam many problems are faced by the citizen of the country. The consumption of fuel has increased as people have to sit idle in their cars during the congestion. People have to wait hours in the congestion so their time is wasted. Moreover, this congestion is also responsible for polluting the environment. We know the effects of traffic but we should also know the causes behind it, in order to solve it.…