negative effects of degradation of the environment. It will first discuss human population as a cause for environmental degradation by also relating to afferent effects. It will then bring into equation urbanization and industrialization which are c Continue Reading...
Environmental Crimes and Health and Safety Law Violation With the current changes in weather patterns, strange climatic conditions and other uncontrollable natural disasters, there has been a lot of attention directed towards the environment and the Continue Reading...
Social Ecology of Health Promotion Modern day examples of human modification of an ecosystem Module 01 Question 01: Preservation of the existing ecosystems Various measures have been put in order to modify and contain the natural state of the ecos Continue Reading...
CAFO's The Impact of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations In the past century there has been a substantial change in the way human beings raise and keep animals meant for food. While in the past there were great numbers of widely spaced small ind Continue Reading...
Local Ecology My local ecosystem can be characterized as high desert. The environment is thus characterized by both aridity and altitude. There is a relatively low amount of rainfall, and a lot of sunshine. The temperature swings between night and d Continue Reading...
Damns on Wildlife and the Environment Background to Dams and Levees - One of the issues resulting from civilization and urbanization is that most of the places humans chose to locate, for reasons of convenience, agriculture, transportation, and eco Continue Reading...
Ecology It is important for people to have an environmental awareness that supports both the ecology's survival and the individual. The purpose of this essay is to describe my local ecology and environment by explaining the specific factors that dis Continue Reading...
This refers to the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-a), which is situated between the foothills of the Brooks Range and the Arctic coastline, and is about 120 miles from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) (Rosen, 2003). The Bureau o Continue Reading...
Omole-Ohonsi, (2007) in his study of sub-Saharan Africa confirmed these affects by suggesting that overpopulation of a locality not only damages the environment and sustainability but "feeds the cycle of poverty" (20). Thus, from non-renewable reso Continue Reading...
Human Ecology - Climate Change Human Ecology -- Climate Change The article selected for this paper is a book review. The article, "Evert Van de Vliert: Climate, Affluence, and Culture" is a review of the book "Climate, Affluence, and Culture" by Ev Continue Reading...
One can be certain that many millions of dollars will flow through the hands of right wing fundraisers like Karl Rove into attack ads against Obama's reform legislation, called "Obamacare" by many who oppose it and even by some who have embraced it. Continue Reading...
Hydrofracking NY What is hydrofracking? To those who support the idea, hydrofracking is the next (and possibly only) real alternative to the U.S.'s continued dependence on the world's oil supply (Energy Vision, n.d:1). To those who doubt the viabil Continue Reading...
Accounting Information for Decision Making Corporate Confirming on Water Risk (Feb 2010) indicates that the Global Confirming Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines' five water-related indications (total withdrawal volume by source, ponds considerably impac Continue Reading...
Population growth is emerging as on the most contentious issues facing society today. What makes the issue so contentious is its overall impact on human behavior and its implications for worldwide economic develop. Until now, economic development was Continue Reading...
Moreover, the mean temperature of the planet earth shall only change once there is an inequality between the rates of energy added and energy lost. What this implies is that any substance which can alter the rates of flow of energy may cause the war Continue Reading...
C. Global warming, rampant pollution, and unchecked carbon emissions into the atmosphere are so serious that, in theory, they could negatively impact earth's entire ecology. If we think of the earth as an organism, with the great forests as the lun Continue Reading...
Global Warming One of the most important concerns of the contemporary era is the issue of climate change, also referred to (inaccurately) as "global warming." The reason that it is an inaccurate characterization is simply that the effects it descri Continue Reading...
A farmer in each year can produce enough food to feed a hundred people, according to Pollan (2001), but this productivity comes with a heavy price: "The modern industrial farmer cannot grow that much food without large quantities of chemical fertili Continue Reading...
People have been unmotivated to offset the carbon dioxide emissions of automobiles due to a personal attachment to their cars. However, they have also been more willing to implement procedures and products in their home that are more energy efficie Continue Reading...
The release of fossil fuels has been driving industrial and civic expansion for the past century and a half, and there is therefore a compelling reason to deny such causes: "some corporations whose revenues might be adversely affected by controls on Continue Reading...
Negative Argument for Debate Negative Argument Government should NOT turn away from fossil fuels Installing solar collectors on rooftops and insulating homes in America will not provide citizens and businesses with the energy needed to keep Americ Continue Reading...
Increased agriculture, deforestation, landfills, industrial production, and mining also contribute a significant share of emissions. In 1997, the United States emitted about one-fifth of total global greenhouse gases. Changing Climate Global avera Continue Reading...
Geology (1) Discuss which of the interrelationships between the environmental spheres, in your experience, has had the biggest effect on human society, or vice versa. Give some examples. The work of Manahan (2005) explains that there are four tradi Continue Reading...
Humanity might not have the same effective power over the environment when fossil fuels run out. While this assumption is certainly believable, humans will not doubt reach a point where the greenhouse gas absorbing plants and bodies will no longer b Continue Reading...
If Japan and other countries are more sufficient in their acts of globalization, they can help with the greenhouse effect from KYOTO protocol. The Kyoto protocal was signed in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. In this protocol, industrialised countries commite Continue Reading...
From the point-of-view of the variation and flexibility of the species such cultivated woody crops rank as no more than cornfields. While the tree farms are conveniently be stretched on the private lands, national forests those are considered pricel Continue Reading...
For many people, global warming is primarily relevant to them in regards to the weather. They assume that when it is excessively hot, this is reflective of a shift in the global climate and when it is cold, this is a sign that global warming is not r Continue Reading...
Global Warming and Climate Change Natural versus anthropogenic forces in climate change are a common topic for discussion. Some people believe that the global warming experienced now is part of a natural cycle while other others believe it is accele Continue Reading...
He also cites some of the possible positive benefits to the global warming that is being experienced, while questioning the more dire predictions that have been made in this regard. Ruddiman is not refuted in this article, but the questions that lie Continue Reading...
Part of the problem is governmental intransigence. For the past eight years in particular, energy policy has been driven by the oil companies (Environmental News Service, 2008), resulting in clean energy having been sidelined. Another reason is that Continue Reading...
Growth Without Jobs During the Cold War, poverty in the developing world was deemed to be a critical issue for the developed world because of the perceived (and likely very real link) between poverty and economic radicalism. However, in the wake of 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...
In this author's opinion, a greater than ninety percent probability that humans are involved in global climate change, with the additional concern that irreversible detrimental consequences may result, is sufficient to warrant immediate action in r Continue Reading...
He even goes so far as to claim that if global warming does occur, it will be a positive thing. Higher temperatures would be positive for agriculture and forests. He believes that higher temperatures will actually cause sea levels to drop, and wraps Continue Reading...
This tax would also concentrate of taxing large corporations as a result of the fact that they are among the most pollutant communities in the world. The basic idea is that every individual who pollutes needs to take responsibility for his or her o Continue Reading...
The state has really took out half of the $300 million cost that it took to build the Hudson River Park (150 acres land/400 acres open water) with yearly assumptions that are around $20 million to $25 million. 20 years from now it might be a hard ch Continue Reading...
Biology An Inconvenient Truth In Al Gore's documentary an Inconvenient Truth, he makes some very pertinent points about the issue of global warming. Included in the documentary are the following topics. a) Effects of Global Warming: Gore uses gra Continue Reading...
Marketing Communications Plan for 5 Star Adventure Tours Executive Overview The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) defines ecotourism as "Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local peop Continue Reading...
It is instead in the collaboration of many volunteer organizations that a significant impact can be made on global warming. The need for creating a high level of collaboration across volunteer organizations that first create a specific messaging str Continue Reading...
This request is, in large part, driven by this belief that greater public awareness will lead both the a greater will for rectification and for the ingenuity of the public in forging solutions that are both policy-initiated and privately assumed. T Continue Reading...
