1000 Search Results for Environmental Policy
Environmental Regulations in Public Transit
The negative effects of air pollution are that it can force illness on us. It can produce burning eyes and nose and an itchy, irritated throat, in addition to difficulty in breathing. The cause for certain Continue Reading...
Environmental Challenges Facing the Current Generation
What are the most challenging environmental issues that will face humanity over the next 50 years? And what are the best ideas for options in the face of these challenges? What are some companie Continue Reading...
Instead they are being left in family homes, alone while family members work to pay the bills.
One of the problems with government regulations and business is that often times the regulation applies across the board with little regard to the size o Continue Reading...
Environmental Tobacco and Asthma
Does environmental tobacco smoke increase the risk of asthma in children?
Smoking is observed as a common habit among uncountable number of people belonging to various countries of the world. It is expected that the Continue Reading...
FSC encourages businesses in Argentina using forest resources to promote a sustainable business policy and discourages businesses that neglect environmental and habitat concerns. Thus the FSC in effect is a global collaborative effort to minimize en Continue Reading...
Environmental Analysis: Target Corporation
The objective of this work is to complete an environmental scan and economic analysis on Target and to identify any major changes expected to affect the remote, industry, and operating environments. This wo Continue Reading...
Environmental Themes in Grapes of Wrath
This essay reviews environmental themes from the following five books: Dust Bowl by Donald Worster, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Killing Mr. Wa Continue Reading...
Environmental Sciences
Obama Turns to Web to Illustrate the Effects of a Changing Climate
This article discusses how the use of technology and the internet can aid in the overall global warming education process. The article explains how President Continue Reading...
The growing population has a great impact on the extent of global warming and its consequences for society, economy and the environment. This means that there is rising in greenhouse emission, more people means more industry. Scientists worry about Continue Reading...
Question
The United States EPA's AirNow program issues an Air Quality Index (AQI) based on the presence of five major pollutants: ground-level ozone, particle pollution, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. The AirNow program com Continue Reading...
On the other hand, nature-as-machine proponents view nature holistically, and the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts," (Oelschlaeger 1991 p. 130). Water is a lake, an ocean, or a river. Oelschlaeger calls seeing the forest instead of the tr Continue Reading...
Policy Studies
The study of public policy gained significant importance in the late fifties and sixties. However, policy science did not come into existence all of a sudden. It started to emerge when social scientists started researches on a wide ra Continue Reading...
Policy and Science
Fiddler on the Roof
Science has traditionally been presented as the a priori fact-finding, theory-establishing stage one of policy making. Stage two of this conventional approach has policy makers utilizing the "empirical truths" Continue Reading...
This balkanization is partially driven by the lack of integration between various segments of itself, and this is primarily a technological limitation. Yet the far broader and more difficult challenge in this regard is the segregating of knowledge n Continue Reading...
Policy Analysis -- Gang activity in New York City
Identification of a problem
Nowadays the American society is facing a pool of problems and this pool includes the well-known issue of gang activity, i.e. A group of people targeting innocent people Continue Reading...
Strategic assessment
2. Project Preparation
3. Project Implementation'
4. Facility Operation
These four assessment tools are to be standalone tools that are applied at specific stages of the Gipsy Lane brickworks road extension and the industria Continue Reading...
The third and most contentious explanation charges unequal distribution of pollutants and hazardous toxins to environmental racism.
In this explanation race is a major factor. Research findings suggest, "...racism may be playing a role in the deci Continue Reading...
Kadembo supports the efforts of Transparency International (2006) in its internationals efforts against corruption. He supports there recommends the following instruments in fighting corruption, including:
1) Transparency
2) Codes of conduct
3) C Continue Reading...
Instead of valuing some parts of nature over others, we should cultivate a universal regard for all parts of nature, down to the lowliest tree in our back yard. Aldo Leopold would agree. His "land ethic" calls for a new philosophy that includes a mo Continue Reading...
In other, more charter-friendly states, there are multiple authorizers -- universities, state boards, even specially created bodies with expertise in charter school creation. The new bill before the state House and Senate will give the Board of Educ Continue Reading...
Although, the argument of the authors is sound concerning the environment ethics, however, the authors fail to reveal the efforts of the North and South countries in addressing the problem of climate change in order to enhance the environmental eth Continue Reading...
Environmental Science
Suburban Sprawl: Problems and Solutions
The objective of this work is to discuss the cost and benefits of low density suburban development and to who it is that gains and loses.
Low density urban sprawl was seen as the answer Continue Reading...
This is because most industries will assemble containers, jugs and other products using non-ecofriendly chemicals. When you try to recycle these materials is when the costs will increase exponentially. This is one of the main reasons why many enviro Continue Reading...
Environmental Governance
Responsible Leadership is the culmination of Moody-Stuart's forty-five years of work in the oil, gas, metal, and mineral extraction industries. Moody-Stuart draws from his experience and observations to provide an analysis o Continue Reading...
" According to Kaur (2009) Many government and tourist agencies have adapted their organizations to offering services that are related to ecotourism activities. A high fiscal commitment is also contributed by the Ministry for its development. For ins Continue Reading...
Policy Recommendation for Collaboration and TSA Privatization
The objective of this study is to evaluate the benefits of collaboration between the federal government and non-profit organizations. The study cites different examples of collaborations Continue Reading...
Policy Extension
General Context
The company was established in 1886 and since its inception the technology developed by Daimler has revolutionized the automotive industry (Daimler AG, 2014). Daimler's initial product line started with a motor carr Continue Reading...
Though the methods for solving environmental problems might be new, the skills necessary to develop and implement these solutions are not. Along with the desire and ability to take in a wide array of information and make complex decisions based on Continue Reading...
" Beyond that, another 26,000 tons of "plastic packaging material" is dumped by the fishing industry each year, Sverdrup's text maintains. Why is plastic trash so bad? First, there are over 50 million tons of plastics produced in the U.S. annually, a Continue Reading...
Nightingale met a friend Richard Monckton Miles in 1842. Then in 1844, Nightingale asked Dr. Howe if she could do a charitable job in a hospital like the catholic nuns, and refused her marriage to her cousin, Henry Nicholson. By 1845, Nightingale st Continue Reading...
Political Economy of Global Environmental Problems:
With the increasing globalization measures, there are various environmental problems that have continued to affect the entire world. These global environmental problems have affected almost every s Continue Reading...
Automobile efficiency -- The Clean Air Act of 1970 is somewhat outdated, and it has become apparent that even the 1990 update is no longer strong enough to reduce pollutants to the level of our technological ability. Regulations would force manufac Continue Reading...
U.S. MILITARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Military & Environmental Law
Environmental Analysis and Impact of the United States Military
Military activity affects the environment in direct and indirect ways. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Continue Reading...
The Leblanc alkali production processes were especially pernicious, but they followed along the lines of previous industrial processes. In other words, the first British environmental legislation was a response not so much to a qualitative change in Continue Reading...
European and International Environmental Laws Research Essay
How do practices of consumption, disposal, and disassembly of everyday electronic objects, such as personal computers and mobile phone effect on sustainable development? Organic chemicals Continue Reading...
Public Administration and Policy Analysis
The objective of this work is to compare and contrast the ethics analysis vs. The cost benefits analysis approaches to policy analysis.
There is a Greek Proverb, which states, "a society grows great when ol Continue Reading...
Aldo Leopold and Environmental History
In answering the question of whether the United States has improved on environmental policy since the 1930s, the cyclical nature of the political system must be considered. A generational reform cycle occurs ev Continue Reading...
social policy and economic policy?
Social policy refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that concern the way that humans live and interact. According to the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard University it refe Continue Reading...
fiscal and monetary policy.
On the most basic level, the primary difference between fiscal and monetary policy is that fiscal policy pertains to the actions of the federal government designed to influence the national economy through government spe Continue Reading...
Environmental Risk Assessment
Over the last several years, a wide variety of businesses have been focusing on the impact that they are having on the environment. Part of the reason for this, is because many firms are realizing that the footprint th Continue Reading...