Which are the impacts of an uncontrolled

development?

&

Typical Majorcan Food

Name: Marta Riera and Aina Rayó

Year: 2007-2008 Group: 3rdB

Contents page:

-Impacts of an uncontrolled development

-Typical majorcan food

-Bibliography

Which are the impacts of an uncontrolled

development?

Contents page:

• Introduction • Environmenta

l 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 construct

ion

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 are 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 and 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.