formation of huge megapolitan areas and surrounding peri-urban environs. In China‚ a 40 million urban area is planned.The effects of cities on people are not well-understood. Cities require huge amounts of energy‚ resulting in large quantities of waste products‚ causing unsustainable environments. Cities are sources of air‚ water and soil pollution. Light and noise pollution are now known to adversely affect urban people. The role of urban heat islands and air pollution‚ PM2.5 and ozone‚ on human
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN LEH DISTRICT DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OFFICE‚ LEH GOVERNMENT OF JAMMU AND District Disaster Management Plan for Leh 1 FOREWORD I have great pleasure to release the Leh District’s Disaster Management Plan 2011-12. It is for the first time a full fledged Disaster Management Plan is prepared for Leh. It is the commitment of the District Administration to effectively deal with disaster in future so that loss of life and property is minimized to very minimum. The
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Impacts of Urban Tourism: A Case Study of Cape Town Introduction For many countries‚ tourism is regarded as a new activity. It is becoming one of the most crucial social and economic activities. The increase in the demand for urban tourism or tourism in cities has occurred over the last few decades (Paskeleva-Shapira‚ 2003).However‚ the literature on urban tourism is still relatively new (Tyler‚ Guerrier‚ and Robertson‚ 1998; Timur and Getz‚ 2008). Urbanisation is a global process
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CHAPTER 3 Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ you will be able to: I. Identify the major drivers of supply chain performance. 2. Discuss the role of each driver in creating strategic fit between the supply chain strategy and the competitive strategy. 3. Detine the key metrics that track the performance of the supply chain in terms of each driver. In this chapter‚ we introduce the three logistical drivers-facilities‚ inventory‚ and transportation-and
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IMPROVING PERFORMANCE -Outline the organization requirements of the team in the line with company policy. Our organization requirements are the following: Our mission - Deliver experiences that enrich and nourish lives. Our values - Sell and serve with passion‚ Front line first‚ Set goals‚ Act. Win‚ Integrity and respect always. Our focus - Build customer advocacy‚ Build client success‚ Build employee engagement‚ Build shareholder value‚ Build local communities. -Outline the teams
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Increasing Fluency A fun and effective way of improving fluency is using Reader’s Theatre. The teacher selects a story either specifically written as a Reader’s Theatre story or adapts a story she likes or one that is part of the school’s reading program. This activity involves the whole class as everyone takes a part as a character or narrator. The teacher may even break up into two groups; readers and audience. The students use their voice to give meaning to the words. There is no
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EFFECTS OF URBAN CRIME ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Technical Paper by: Ms. Adit Padhi (aditipadhi@gmail.com) “Greater concern about terrorism places new opportunities before the design community. If protection is considered from the outset‚ design can make buildings and people safer.”1 Introduction Violent crime was the issue of the nineties‚ while terrorism has become the talk at the onset of 21st century. Understanding crime prevention design is therefore an invaluable tool in organization and
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URBAN DESIGN AND CONSERVATION 1. Urban Design The term “urban design” may have been coined in the mid-1950s but 20 years later it was still largely unused outside a small circle of people concerned with the four-dimensional development of precincts of cities. It has a wide‚ almost boundary-less definition with different connotations depending on professional discipline or the particular context within which the urban environment is being assessed. It is the process of making or shaping physical
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RURAL AND URBAN Imagine that all people live in villages or they all live in cities. How would the life be if people lived the same lifestyle? A proverb in Yemen says‚” Being rural is the best color of lifestyle.’’ In which is meant living in villages is better than living in cities. Well‚ there is no doubt that life in villages is so beautiful‚ and very interesting indeed‚ but at the same there are people who prefer to live in metropolitan cities and this is due to their lust of living
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students achieve higher grades‚ and therefore have even more university and college acceptance. Improvements such as free internet‚ a library on campus and free parking will for sure be solutions with a positive aftermath. My first suggestion to improving the school is free internet. Internet can be a positive solution for those students in St.Louis that English is not their first language. They can access translation sites to help them better understand the reading material and course assignments
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