Most of the human population now lives in cities. This is a very recent situation, the first in human history. This means that the way we connect human populations and environmental issues is also different from just decades ago. As an introduction to this issue, we need to compare quality of life between urban and rural areas globally. Comparing quality of life between urban and non-urban areas is difficult because there is no single measurement used comprehensively for both environments. At this point I want to introduce you to an actual measurement of quality of life. This is vitally important because in the end, it is our quality of life that we are most interested in. It can be argued that all environmental issues are really about saving the environment based on humanity's definition of what is good for the Earth, and what is good for the Earth we view in terms of what is good for humanity. Consequently, the United Nation's Human Development Index is used to measure this on the national level. A City Development Index addresses urban areas, although cities are not yet well represented by this metric. We will get around this by retrieving HDI (Human Development Index) from nations with a very high percentage of urban population with those having a low percentage of urban population. From these data we can draw a conclusion as to whether urban areas have a better or worse quality of life compared to non-urban areas. Later we can connect our findings to environmental impacts to get the whole picture. Instructions: 1. Refer to this website for data: http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries 2. Choose six nations as samples for your data set. 3. For each nation you chose, record the HDI value. (not the rank,)
Most of the human population now lives in cities. This is a very recent situation, the first in human history. This means that the way we connect human populations and environmental issues is also different from just decades ago. As an introduction to this issue, we need to compare quality of life between urban and rural areas globally. Comparing quality of life between urban and non-urban areas is difficult because there is no single measurement used comprehensively for both environments.
At this point I want to introduce you to an actual measurement of quality of life. This is vitally important because in the end, it is our quality of life that we are most interested in. It can be argued that all environmental issues are really about saving the environment based on humanity's definition of what is good for the Earth, and what is good for the Earth we view in terms of what is good for humanity. Consequently, the United Nation's Human Development Index is used to measure this on the national level. A City Development Index addresses urban areas, although cities are not yet well represented by this metric.
We will get around this by retrieving HDI (Human Development Index) from nations with a very high percentage of urban population with those having a low percentage of urban population. From these data we can draw a conclusion as to whether urban areas have a better or worse quality of life compared to non-urban areas. Later we can connect our findings to environmental impacts to get the whole picture.
Instructions:
1. Refer to this website for data: http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries
2. Choose six nations as samples for your data set.
3. For each nation you chose, record the HDI value. (not the rank,)
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