MACRO-ENVIRONMENT

Comparison of Macro-Environment

Canada

Physical Environment

Physical geography - or physiographic - is the science that studies the physical characteristics of the surface of the earth. The characteristics of the physical environment of Canada are: The total area of ??Canada represents almost 10 million square kilometres of land cover two most common in Canada are evergreen coniferous forests (26%) and arid land with low vegetation (25% ), which represents more than half of the land cover. In Canada, there are changes in temperature to announce the transition from one season to another. Although winter can be very cold, summers can be hot and dry or hot and humid, depending on the region.

Socio-Cultural Environment

Canadian culture is composed of different cultures, languages, ethnicities and ways of thinking, acting, seeking to interpret the surrounding world. This is not only a natural consequence of the environment in some violent cultural hostile areas where people live, but also the cultural knowledge acquired in their countries of origin if we refer to the so-called "new Canadians. As the people of Europe, Asia, Africa and to a lesser but growing in Latin America, brings the first generation of an identity that has been created, trained and brought up in the environment he was born and raised, and are willing to follow the path of elements that had to help them survive, but do not change the essence in any way (Morton, Desmond pp 9).

Economic Environment

Canada, compared with the U.S., has a lower trade surplus as the Canadian dollar is firting dollar parity. Despite a sign of recovery after the recession in 2010, locals are pessimistic about the prospects for the economy. Some analysts even consider that there would be a double-dip recession. Bank of Canada Governor, Mark Carney, still carrying out monetary policy money demand growing by holding interest rates as low as 1%.

Regulatory Environment

Since 1980, the Canadian government has supported the development of biotechnology with the intention of turning the country into a "leader" in this sector. Several programs, as well as regulatory and financial measures have been proposed to achieve this goal.

Canada is thus now among the first countries in the world in terms of crops genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foods covered. In many fields of GM Canada increased since 1994, the transgenic plants to produce pharmaceutical molecules possibly. Molecular pharming name pharmaceutical products, these new GMOs pose many challenges are mainly related to contamination of food and the environment.

These health problems, environmental and socioeconomic it does not, however, limited solely to the Canadian space. The experience of GM foods shows that the current regulatory and scientific background, no border to biological, physical or policy appears to contain GM contamination.

Located outbound gateway between economic development and protection of human health and the environment, the Canadian government and its agencies as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said but successfully combined these two aspects (Bricker, Darrell, Wright, pp 8).

Netherlands

Physical Environment

The total population of Netherlands is around 35,224,942.About 89 percent of the population lives in urban ...