Contemporary urban environments

Question 1

What has the urban population grown by from 1950

Answer 1

From 750 million to 4.5 billion

Question 2

How many vehicles go on the M25 each day?

Answer 2

200,000

Question 3

How many jobs did rural areas gain in the UK between 1981 and 1996?

Answer 3

1 million

Question 4

How much has manufacturing employment in the UK decreased from 1978 to 2015?

Answer 4

6 to 2 million

Question 5

What % of pupils of English Martyrs do not have English as their first language?

Answer 5

83 %

Question 6

How high and far can climatic domes extend?

Answer 6

300m high and tens of km in the downwind

Question 7

How much warmer is the annual mean temperatures of cities (>1m) than its surroundings?

Answer 7

1 C to 3 C

Question 8

How big is the Asian population that is vulnerable to inland flooding?

Answer 8

350 million

Question 9

What % of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in the UK is road transport responsible for?

Answer 9

90% and 50% respectively

Question 10

How much can the concentration of pollutants increase over winter due to temperature inversion?

Answer 10

6 times

Question 11

How much does waste account for total greenhouse gas emissions?

Answer 11

5%

Question 12

How much does methane from landfills represent total greenhouse gas emissions?

Answer 12

12.5%

Question 13

How much is waste increasing every year?

Answer 13

7%

Question 14

How many people lack access to clean water?

Answer 14

£1.2 billion

Question 15

What % of infectious diseases are waterborne?

Answer 15

80%

Question 16

What proportion of Indians rivers are polluted?

Answer 16

Half

Question 17

How many ha of land was remediated in preparation for the 2012 London Olympic Games?

Answer 17

350 ha

Question 18

How much of the words resources do cities consume?

Answer 18

3/4

Question 19

How many homes were built by UDC’s nationwide?

Answer 19

35,000

Question 20

How many waste workers have went on strike in Birmingham?

Answer 20

400

Question 21

How much waste has been left uncollected in Birmingham?

Answer 21

5,000 tonnes

Question 22

How much has vermin companies rose in Birmingham?

Answer 22

By 30%

Question 23

What % of waste is collected in Lagos?

Answer 23

40% of the city’s 30,000 tonnes of waste

Question 24

How much does incineration reduce waste disposal volume?

Answer 24

By 90%

Question 25

How long will the Thames tideway tunnel keep sewage out of the Thames?

Answer 25

100 years

Question 26

How long is the Thames tideway tunnel?

Answer 26

25km

Question 27

How long does it the water take to clean at Beckton water treatment plant?

Answer 27

4 hours

Question 28

How many hectares of waste is smokey mountain?

Answer 28

10,000

Question 29

What % of budgets goes to waste management in LIC's?

Answer 29

20% - 50%

Question 30

How many houses can the electricity used at Tyseley incinerator power?

Answer 30

40,000 homes

Question 31

How many tonnes of rubbish does Tyseley incinerate annually?

Answer 31

350,000

Question 32

How much of the UK's waste is incinerated in the Chengdu province of China?

Answer 32

80%

Question 33

How many were killed in the great smog?

Answer 33

4,000

Question 34

What % of lung cancers each year in the UK has been estimated to have been caused by PM2.5 air pollution exposure?

Answer 34

8%

Question 35

How many Londoners were estimated to have died prematurely from air pollutants in 2010?

Answer 35

9,400

Question 36

How many tonnes has been released into the Ganges?

Answer 36

1 million

Question 37

How many trees do community groups in Detroit aim to plant?

Answer 37

50,000

Question 38

By 2010, how many hectares of derelict land was converted in 40 community gardens by Detroit community groups?

Answer 38

7 ha