Which are the impacts of an uncontrolled development

Which are the impacts of an uncontrolled development? & Typical Majorcan Food Name: Marta Riera and Aina Rayó Year: 2007 -2008 Group: 3 rd. B

Contents page: -Impacts of an uncontrolled development -Typical majorcan food -Bibliography

Which are the impacts of an uncontrolled development?

Contents page: • Introduction • Environmental impacts in general. • Environmental impacts in Majorca.

Introduction • ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS in general and in MAJORCA. (human influence in the natural environment) • Bad effects of economic development when it does not consider environmental factors. Example: deforestation…

Environmental impacts in general • Deforestation. (E. g. : Christmas tree) • Water Pollution ( E. g. : untreated sewage spilt into rivers) • Soil Pollution (E. g. : pesticides) • Noise pollution (E. g. : 100 children shouting.

Environmental impacts in Majorca • Overfishing • Impact of tourism • The amount of construction

Overfishing • Overfishing occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stoks below an acceptable level. • There are two types of overfishing: • Biological • Bioeconomical

• Biological overfishing occurs when fishing mortality has reached a lever where the stock biomass has negative marginal growth. • Bioeconomic overfishing additionally considers the cost of fishing and defines overfishing as a situation of negative marginal growth of resouce rent.

The amount of construction: • There a lot of construction. The people dont think with the consequences on the enivronment.

Impact of tourism: • Majorca was once a quiet green island. But the tourism has changed it a lot. • Forty years ago it became a centre for tourism. • The turists had moved throgh the island some of them had build seconds homes in the island growing the construction and braking and killing plants etc.

• Beaches are being damaged as every day huge quantities of sand are accidentally taken back to hotels on people's feet. • The boom has brought traffic jams and pollution, too. • Too much people coming on holiday means too much rubbish and a critical lack of water.