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Impacts of Uncontrolled Development on Environment: Majorca Case Study

Explore the negative effects of uncontrolled development on the environment, focusing on Majorca, including overfishing, tourism impact, and construction consequences. Learn about the environmental damages caused by economic growth when not considering ecological factors.

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Impacts of Uncontrolled Development on Environment: Majorca Case Study

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  1. Which are the impacts of uncontrolled development?By: Marta Riera Planisi

  2. Which are the impacts of an uncontrolled development? Aina Rayo and Marta Riera

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

  4. 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…

  5. 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.

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

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

  8. 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.

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Biography: • http://www.recipelink.com/mf/3/9589 • http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Ensa%C3%AFmada • http://recipezaar.com/195096 • http://www.gobmallorca.com/comuni/com2003/031117.htm

  13. http://www.uib.es/depart/dceweb/rem/advent/trees.html • http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tvchoice/tvc23x.htm • www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/sust-tourism/env-3main.htm#pollution

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