SOSC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chalkidiki, Eldorado Gold, Free Trade
6 May 2017
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Economic growth has human and environmental costs in the developed world but even more so in the developing countries. Global sea levels have risen by an average of 1. 7 mm over the past one hundred years, and have been increasing by 3. 5 mm per year since 1993 (cockerill 156). Economy: gross domestic product (gdp) - . 028 trillion (9th in the world) and 4. 9% growth rate. Labour force: 123. 7 million and 38. 9% of which are in agriculture. Environmental issues: deforestation; water pollution from industrial wastes, sewage; air pollution in urban areas; smoke and haze from forest fires. Indonesia is one of the five largest producers of green house gas (ghg) emissions in world today. Plantations have also been connected to the destruction of habitat of endangered species, including orangutans, tigers, elepha(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d (cid:396)hi(cid:374)os. (cid:863: between 1990 and 2014, global production of palm oil has increased from 13. 5 million tonnes to.
