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ELE - Contexts

Urbanisation and Waste Management

Extension Activities:

Your Mission:

Investigate the speed at which a city grows is it responding to economic opportunities - are these a beneficial or problematic?

Retrace the Urban Waste Management of several cities facing an increasing growth in population and among other things – increasing quantities of waste being generated.

Discuss whether varied lifestyles and consumption patterns affect the quality and composition of waste which has been more varied and changing.

Urbanisation

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Urbanisation

Trends 19th and 20th century

Waste Management

What is the importance of our Urban patterns of living on Waste Management

Urbanization has had a major effect on the social structure of industrial and developing societies, affecting not only where people live but how they live. What are the benefits and the costs of this trend?

For a lot of cities in expansion in the world, rubbish and waste is a real problem. Each day the 50% of the world population who live in town make tones and tones of rubbish that is not often treated. Unfortunately many people live near waste centres, particularly in shantytowns in developing countries. The rubbish is found everywhere and threaten the health of the city. [Wastes considers all the actors involved in waste management activities in a city.]

Outcome:

To understand urbanisation the movement of people from rural areas (countryside) to urban areas (towns and cities). This usually occurs when a country is still developing.

Project Topics:

What causes urbanisation? What impact is there in terms of social, economical, health, transport and environmental issues?

Develop your own area of interest and formulate questions that you want answered and relate to your own culture and environment. For example

1. Japan (Toyko), Korea (Seoul), Mexico (Mexico City), India (Mumbai), China (Beijing), Australia (Sydney) .... or

2. counterurbanisation in MEDCs (More Economically Developed Countries) or

3. a case study - an Inner City Redevelopment

4. Impact on environment and food systems

Outcome:

To explore whether WASTE can become WEALTH: REFUSE can become RESOURCE and TRASH can become CASH

Project Question:

Why do we need to rethink the way we dispose of waste?

Investigate waste disposal in your region and formulate questions that you want answered which would decrease the impact of wastes on the local and global environment. For example

1. waste processing and waste recycling , or

2. community participation, understanding economic benefits/recovery of waste, focusing on life cycles

3. decentralized administration of waste, minimizing environmental impacts, reconciling investment costs with long-term goals.

Overview:

Students will develop their own understanding of Urbanisation and its impact on a 'developing countries'
Students will assessing whether urbanisation is positive, negative, or a combination of positive and negative on both developing and developed countries.

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