Category: Geography

climate change and urbanization,”- Both Canada and the United States arevulnerable to climate change; they are exposedto hurricanes and sea level rise. Resilience toclimate change is bolstered over the short termby excellent emergency response and recoverysystems. Long-term resilience is boosted bycareful planning as well as by North America’slarge and diverse economy, which can providealternative livelihoods for people who arehighly exposed to climate impacts.- In the United States, 40 percent of rivers are toopolluted for fishing and swimming. Pollution in the riversof North America comes mainly as storm-water runofffrom agricultural areas, urban and suburbandevelopments

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urban sprawl,”- is the encroachment of suburbs on agricultural land. Farms that wereonce highly productive have given way to expansive, low-density urban andsuburban residential developments where pavement, golf courses, office complexes,and shopping centers cover the landscape. The loss of farmland and natural habitatin the urban fringe affects recreational land and the ability to produce local,affordable food for urban populations.-Since 1990s, in many area

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culture,”comprises everything people use to live on Earth that is not directly partof biological inheritance. Culture is represented by the ideas, materials,methods, and social arrangements that people have invented and passed on tosubsequent generations, such as methods of producing food and shelter.Culture includes language, music, tools and technology, belief systems andmoral codes

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ethnic group,”p is a group of people whoshare a common ancestry and sense ofcommon history, a set of beliefs, a way oflife, a technology, and usually a commongeographic location of origin.Ethnicity and culture are slippery concepts.As part of the process of globalization,people migrate outside of their customaryor ethnic boundaries.Members of a certain ethnic group,especially when they are dispersed acrossdifferent societies

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