According to Chea of the Associated Press in 1975 only 6% of the population chose cremation upon their death while in 2004 about 31% chose this final solution. (Chea, 2007) Additionally, the popularity of cremation is greater in certain areas than in others and the overall population has grown substantially between 1975 and 2004
, 2004; Knox, 2005)." (Herzog, 2007) it would seem irresponsible in fact to locate a crematorium in a residential neighborhood or adjacent to one but many have existed for so long that the services they provide are often ignored by the surrounding community as they existed before the homes these people live in were built and are therefore part of the landscape
Furthermore, it is also clear that the air quality measurements for all air pollutants resulting from burning, discrete from those most often associated with other air pollution, such as fossil or diesel fuel burning is higher than the national average and higher than is acceptable according to the national EPA. (Knight, 2007) This is particularly true of Benzene, which is the result of burning in general and is measured independently
Mercury and dioxin are two other end products of the cremation process that are not regulated at the present time." (University of Florida Environmental Engineering Website: Crematorium Regulations, 2001) Summary The air quality in Portland is overall significantly higher as are benzene levels, a known emanate of burning of any kind but have been found in the air emissions of crematoriums, along with several other volatile air pollutants
The other is to create spinoff investment and spending. Major cultural centers, such as the Newark Arena, the Newark Museum, Riverfront Stadium and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center are all evidence of the city's investment in cultural infrastructure (Kaye, 2004)
The city has, however, not addressed crime as creatively as other centers and for this reason its improvements generally lag those in many other areas. Crime was not made a political priority until after the 2006 election of Mayor Cory Booker (Soliman, 2010)
The Newark airport was exploited to take advantage of tight capacity at New York City's airports. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is also making heavy infrastructure investments in Newark (Roney, no date)
Infrastructure improvements are one important step. Crime is a more complex issue, because crime is a response to the lack of economic opportunity (Hamnett, 2003)
But part of the reason for lower loss of lives, and faster subsequent rebuilding, lay in those states' better local and state organization. Hurricane Katrina Disaster Areas (Johnson 2006) In particular, federal government calls to evacuate the region were heeded by the governors of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, but were not heeded by either the Governor of Louisiana, nor by the Mayor of New Orleans (Hassett 2006)
But part of the reason for lower loss of lives, and faster subsequent rebuilding, lay in those states' better local and state organization. Hurricane Katrina Disaster Areas (Johnson 2006) In particular, federal government calls to evacuate the region were heeded by the governors of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, but were not heeded by either the Governor of Louisiana, nor by the Mayor of New Orleans (Hassett 2006)
The Army Corps of Engineers has broad federal authority to supervise, audit and, in many cases, correct or improve flood control in the Mississippi Basin. It had conducted a number of audits over the years which established that the New Orleans levees were not adequate to a high-wind hurricane, and went so far as to predict (with great accuracy) the amount of flooding which could take place in the City of New Orleans if such a hurricane were to strike land (Nicholson 2005)
Human Geography - Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans The topic of this paper is an analysis of Hurricane Katrina and its impact on human geography in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama as compared to the human geography considerations in Florida, another area which experiences devastating hurricanes on an even more frequent basis (Pacione 1999)
The Hydrologic System: Natural and Technical The work of Chorley and Barry (1971) entitled: "Introduction to Physical Hydrology" states that "Water, Earth, and Man, both in organization and content, reflects the foregoing attitudes by illustrating the advantages inherent in adopting a unified view of the earth and social sciences." (Chorley and Barry, 1971) Water is stated to be not only a "commodity which is directly used by man but it is often the mainspring for extensive economic development, commonly an essential element in man's aesthetic experience, and always a major formative factor of the physical and biological environment which provides the stage for his activities
They seek to understand and help rectify these important water problems." (Gaile and Willmont, 2003) Muir states that urban water geography is relatively underdeveloped "relative to watershed and regional scales of research
Students during the turbulent times of the 1960s, they are the aging professors of the discipline today, and their life experiences are profoundly etched upon the moral questions that we ask today as well as on the broader set of issues that define public policy." (Harvey, 1975 as cited in: Kobayashi and Proctor, 2004) Stated otherwise, considerations that are now present in regards to human geography ethics and justice were not at issue in earlier decades and neither did this enter into much of the planning for the same
Most geographers today would recognize that while most of the content of Kant's geography has long-since been replaced with new ideas, his influence on the fundamental ways in which we think about human being, and his role in shaping the values of colonial and imperial expansion that underlie today's political and economic systems, was profound." (Kobayashi and Proctor, 2004) The work of Sally Eden (2000) entitled: "Environmental Issues: Sustainable Progress?" states that sustainability is presently a "slipper concept: it continually changes meaning as it is analyzed, reinvented and operationalized for a host of policy documents and institutional purpose
biodiversity conservation is not traditionally considered the domain of the human geographer, recent work at the intersection of political, cultural and applied ecology (Adams and Hulme, 2001; Berkes, 2004; Zimmerer, 2000, 2006) has firmly placed the new geographies of conservation in the sphere of geographers interested in development, understandings of nature and multispatial analysis of the expansion of protected areas into increasingly human dominated landscapes." (Muir, 2007) The work of White (1997) is stated to have "reflected back on four key scientific debates of that period: (1) Soil taxonomy vs
Human Adaptation The work of Orlove (2005) entitled: "Human adaptation to climate change: a review of three historical cases and some general perspective" examines mitigation and adaptation in the area of human ecology and states that the word adaptation "has a number of different meanings" however within the IPCC framework adaptation has been defined as "adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or there effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities." (Orlove, 2005) Failure to adapt by populations is stated to results in the collapse of that population
Even more difficult, of course, is distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate uses of violence. Ideology of any sort comprises the habits of behavior and belief that combine to make any social world appear to those who inhabit it as the natural world (Billig 37)
The nation state is itself "imagined" as a social community because the members are connected through cultural identities rather than proximity and, or, knowledge of the individual. Communities, therefore, they are defined according to the shared belief that constitutes the imagined commonalties (Anderson 6)