Palestine Environment Stats
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Ecological footprint:
Ecological footprint per capita
Units: Hectares per Person - Pollution > Climate change > Agrees climate change is caused by human activity: Percentage of population who responded yes when asked if they believed global warming was a result of human activities. In this survey, global warming refers to the current rise in earth's temperature and not climate change as a whole.
- Pollution > Climate change > Climate change awareness: Percentage of each country's population who claimed knowing "something" or a "great deal" about climate change when asked: "How much do you know about global warming or climate change?"
- Proportion of land area under protection: Terrestrial areas protected to total surface area, percentage.
- Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, total.
- Waste > Hazardous waste created: Annual generation of hazardous waste (as defined by the Basel Convention).
- Waste > Local garbage collected: Municipal waste collected.
- Waste > Population served by local garbage collection: Total population served by municipal waste collection.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Rural: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, rural.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, total.
- Water > Percent of water resources used: Proportion of total water resources used, percentage.
SOURCES: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Wikipedia: Climate change opinion by country; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables
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Palestine Environment Profiles (Subcategories)
| Pollution 3 | Waste 3 |
| Sanitation 3 | Water 8 |
Palestine categories
| Agriculture | Environment | Media |
| Background | Government | Military |
| Conflict | Health | People |
| Crime | Import | Religion |
| Culture | Industry | Transport |
| Economy | Labor | Travel |
| Education | Language |
