How To Manage Long Term Environmental Influences (1)
The limitation of space is such an example that is quite obvious in the changing world. Not only the price of land constantly increases, but the simple availability of space is one of the biggest issues of our times. As a consequence, businesses and governmental operations are seeking way to change their operations. One solution is by using the "underground" space. Such a change where the scarcity of land is more and more becoming an issue is one of the simple changes that is affecting our lives. But less obvious are countless of other alterations that go so slowly that we hardly get acknowledge of the change and… this is the point, we are not really able to anticipate the change.
An example of this influence of the environment is the climate change. We all talk about it, but one of the most important element to be able to do something is the impact of the change in current business. Is it true for example that the climate change is the cause of less snow in the Swiss Alps and mountains in Spain?
A certain study (related to the snowfall) shows the gradual influences, but on an annual scale there no real notification. The mean snow depth, the duration of continuous snow cover and the number of snowfall days in the Swiss Alps all show very similar trends during the observation period 1931-99: a gradual increase until the early 1980s (with insignificant interruptions during the late 1950s and early 1970s) followed by a statistically significant decrease towards the end of the century. (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003IJCli..23..733L)
The visible evidence of a changing climate becomes visible when you watch an old movie. Recently the Spanish television broadcasted "Carmen, la de Ronda," a film of 1959 recorded in the region of Ronda in the province of Malaga (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052675/). By watching such an old movie you instantly experience the change of the climate, in this case the draught that has invaded the southern Spanish territory. And if we are to believe the predictions the land could turn into a real desert.
Important is the question how to manage such situations where the change is invisible and without any influence on the short term but might cause problems on the long term?
© 2006 Hans Bool
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