Introduction
Air pollution remains a global problem, especially in heavily industrialized nations such as the United States. Some progress has been made in recent years, however, due in large part to the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and subsequent federal regulations. The purpose and organization of the paper are described in this section.
How Air Pollution is Measured
This section is used to provide a description concerning how air pollution is measured and which constituent elements are included in the analysis.
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Urban air pollution is one of the biggest environmental concerns for my community. And not just my community; air quality has seriously deteriorated in many cities around the globe over the last 60 or so years. The increasingly poor urban air quality has been largely caused by industrialization. Vehicles exhaust has also contributed to the poor air quality. In most urban areas, air pollution is a mixture of gas-phase and particle pollutants. Air pollution has serious negative effects on the quality of life especially in terms of health. In my community,… Continue Reading...
as chemical agents, biological agents, physical environment and so on. Issues that fall under environmental health are air pollution, water pollution, pesticides, chemical spills, and other areas (Laroque, 2009). Because of the risk of these areas negatively impacting human health, there is a need to monitor environmental health areas. One major area of environmental health that desperately needs surveillance is the quality of the air in urban areas near major airports. As Schlenker and Walker (2015) point out, airports are responsible for some of the highest concentrations of air pollution in the nation. An as West et al. (2016) show, air pollution is the cause of millions… Continue Reading...
lichens turn out to be plentiful. A small number of lichen varieties can put up with extremely high degrees of air pollution and therefore are generally seen on pavements, wall surfaces and also tree-bark in city locations. By far the most delicate lichens happen to be shrubby and leafy whilst the most resistant lichens are crusty in looks (Showman, 68; Nash and Gries, 1-29). A lichen area design might be noticed in big cities and towns or close to commercial buildings which matches the average degrees of sulphur dioxide encountered.
2. Purpose
The resistant lichens are helpful bioindicators for atmosphere air pollution, particularly sulfur dioxide contamination, given that they get… Continue Reading...
environmental concern.
Background Information on the Issue
Haze is one of the forms of air pollution that can be caused by natural or man-made factors. Haze is defined as a weather phenomenon with a horizontal visibility below 10km because of dense accumulation of fine particular matter (An et al., 2013). China has struggled with haze and other forms of air pollution since 2013. While natural factors play a role in the emergence of haze, the situation in China is largely attributable to man-made factors. An et al. (2019) contends that China has been characterized with rapid urbanization and industrialization over the past few decades.… Continue Reading...
may be affected by an organization in that its activities may cause water or air pollution as well as habitat destruction.
As per the stakeholder matrix, stakeholders have different levels of power on and interest in an organization (Carroll, Brown & Buchholtz, 2017). Indeed, power (influence) and interest are the two major characteristics that differentiate stakeholders. This means that some stakeholders are more important than others. While some stakeholders command huge influence and have high interest in an organization, others have low influence and low interest. For instance, managers have both high influence on and high interest in an organization as they are the… Continue Reading...
global health outcomes. “Land-use and transport policies contribute to worldwide epidemics of injuries and non-communicable diseases through traffic exposure, noise, air pollution, social isolation, low physical activity, and sedentary behaviors,” (Sallis, Bull, Burdett, et al., 2016, p. 2936). Institutional changes, political commitment, capacity building, innovative public planning, and other partnership-based local solutions have been shown to promote “overall sustainable urban health development,” (Hu & Kuo, 2016). Rice, Franceschini, Wallerstein, et al. (2017) also show how communities like Puerto Santa Lucia stand to benefit financially from improving the brand identity of the municipality, which would therefore improve the area’s attractiveness to investors.
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services, indecent and exposed collection and incineration of waste without proper mitigation on water and air pollution, the control of scavengers and unauthorized waste pickers and the associated development of flies and other dirty creatures (Bartone, 1995).
A major identified reason why the SWM mechanisms in developing nations haven't proved effective is the problem of finances. Due to the low importance placed on SWM by the governments, with the exception of large cities and country capitals, inadequate funds are released to the SWM authorities. This is a very common occurrence in the smaller towns and the rural regions, as the local taxation processes in these… Continue Reading...
governments are grappling with how to manage the energy security of their country and at the same time reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Nuclear Power Technology
According to Brook and Bradshaw (2015) generating electricity using nuclear reactors is similar to the way electricity is generated using coal-fired power plants but somehow more complicated. Nuclear reactions produce energy from uranium fuel. The uranium ore is first mined and then enriched in order to increase the amount of isotope uranium, which is able to sustain a nuclear chain reaction. The pellets of enriched uranium are placed in rows to form fuel rods and placed in the reactor. Firing a… Continue Reading...
investments of $52 billion are made, a rate that is more than double the current investment levels (Profeta, 2017).
4. Why China is winning the clean energy race.
Notwithstanding its air pollution and continuing reliance on fossil fuels, most especially coal, China’s leadership is winning the clear energy race because they have to. With a population of 1.4 billion people and a land mass that extends across Asia, China has a Herculean task in providing electricity to all of its citizens (Harder, 2018). In response to this challenge, China has taken a number of steps to integrate renewable energy resources into its grid and has deployed the most electric cars in the world as shown in Figure 1 below.
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the facility.
Question Two
Specific environmental factors that could influence change in your setting
• Air pollution or proximity to toxic sites
• Access to various health-related like medical care
• Community design and the "built environment" like transportation systems
• Knowledge about the health trends in the region
• Environmental susceptibility to the change in terms of consumer readiness and awareness
Question Three
The stakeholders in the facility include the corporate decision makers, the managers, and the producers who actually handle every bit of the production process, the professionals, and the consumers within the facility (Kearney-Nunnery, 2016). Moreover, the stakeholders also include the… Continue Reading...
expansion, as well as greater species endangerment. These occurrences have largely been linked to human activity, particularly air pollution, burning of fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, industrialization, and deforestation. The issue is so pressing that it threatens the ability of future generations to sustain their lives, which is ethically unfair. Indeed, global warming threatens food security, human health, human and non-human survival, as well as socioeconomic stability in the future (Cummins, 2014; Justin, 2015). Addressing the problem, however, remains a major challenge in large part due to the moral, ethical, and philosophical questions surrounding it. More specifically, there remains a great deal of controversy over who is… Continue Reading...
