Environment Essay Examples and Topics. Page 19

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Green Buildings and Environmental Sustainability

This paper scrutinizes the characteristics that need to be possessed by a building for it to qualify as green coupled with questioning the capacity of the green movements across the globe to prescribe the construction [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1945

The Clarity of Lake Tahoe

The paper entails a comprehensive description of the environmental issues being experienced at Lake Tahoe by analyzing the clarity of the lake and the major pollutants causing loss of clarity.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2807

The Affect Weather Has on Human Life

The investigation, which takes the subsequent section and to which the study precedes to the conclusion of the research, assesses the impact of the attack on economy and health of the inhabitants of the city [...]
  • Subjects: Planet Protection
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1384

Metholdogy for Economic Discourse Analysis in Climate Change

Due to the fact that the main goal of the research is to define the rhetoric devices used to underscore the economic discourse in climate change, such concepts as argumentation, discourse coalition overview, as well [...]
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2757

Going Green in the GCC?

Moreover, it discusses several topics such as the feasibility of solar power on the territory of the Middle East, the issues of energy consuming in the countries that produce oil, solar-led green development in MENA, [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601

Usage of Renewable Energy in Saudi Arabia

Energy system stability for the year 2010 In the Table, the Potential for adopting CSP in the Kingdom for the year 2010 rated 124,560 TWh and has a capacity credit of 90%.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 3893

Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Standards

Additionally, the study will examine the impacts of the policies on the organization of the supply chains transport. The members will be informed of the importance of the study and the implications of partaking in [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1112

Environmental Damage From the BP Oil Spill

With this, the issue of BP oil spill turned out to be more than legal as it has put the marine life and human life in the vicinity of the disaster under peril.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1771

Filling the Global Energy Research Gap

These developed countries are expected to lead developing countries in the conservation of environment by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 597

Ocean and Atmosphere Circulation

Oceanic and atmospheric circulation is the means by which heat is distributed on the surface of the Earth by large scale circulation of air.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

Disaster management is planet management

Other important issues discussed in the content are the causes of the disaster in a community one of them being the population of people in a community.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 955

A Robust Strategy for Sustainable Energy

The century-scale indicates that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, plants and even in the biomass is dauntingly large. Over half of the CO2 that is emitted remains in the atmosphere and can become [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2802

Waste Management in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

The government in the emirate should formulate regulations governing waste management and restricting any form of disposal that could be harmful to the environment.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Potential Causes of Global Warming

A greenhouse effect refers to the phenomena where water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other major gases in Earth help in sustaining the atmospheric temperatures near the surface of the Earth.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1706

Chesapeake Bay Environment Protection

The prevention of water pollution was made possible through a rule that controlled the amount of pollutants discharged into the ocean by the players in the manufacturing industry.conducted a research and it followed that, according [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1655

Environmental Disasters and Ways Companies Cope With Them

On damages, the incident fronted various health risks to the residents of the area and beyond. The clean up processes incorporated the use of detoxifiers and other viable methods, which could eradicated the gas and [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1825

Satellite-Based Remote Sensing

The Aqua and Terra satellites were launched by NASA in 2002 and 1999 respectively, and each of them contains the MODIS sensor.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 837

The Economic Cost of Climate Change Effects

Because the general definition of climate change involves changes in the statistical components of a climate system without taking into account the causes of such changes, changes in climate over a short period of time [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1532

Wind-Based Energy Market

The energy department in the U.S.has been able to discover and point a number of challenges and problems in the development of wind energy.
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2009

Biomass Energy – A Reliable Energy Source

In a developing country such as Vietnam, cheap source of energy would be required since it would boost the productivity of citizens, as well as government.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 229

How should we live?

In the Netherlands, there has been well documentation of public support for "Room for River" policies and this support is found out to be high.
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3036

Green Business Strategy Approach

The adoption of this plan will enable the community and management of Princeton Mart to work collaboratively to protect the environment and responsibly utilize the natural resources through an elaborate environmental stewardship program.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2752

Environmental Policy in UK, Canada, and India

The manufacturers and service providers are being encouraged to label their products and services as a way of creating awareness to the consumers on the safety of the product or service to the environment.
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2842

Ecological Effects of the Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms

Beneficial soil organisms such as earthworms, mites, nematodes, woodlice among others are some of the soil living organisms that are adversely affected by introduction of genetically engineered organisms in the ecosystem since they introduce toxins [...]
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2475

Critique on Creating Shared Value

According to Porter and Cramer, the concept of shared value can be defined as "policies and operating practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing the economic and social conditions in the [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1247

Compaction Characteristics of Municipal Solid Waste

Miller et al.also present field and laboratory tests to identify the influence of compaction conditions on the characteristics of soil water to highlight the fact of discrepancies between the application of laboratory tests and those [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1688

Sustainable Resource Management

The purpose of examination is to compare the results of sustainable water management with the current level of pollutants within the waters that feed into Lithgow's and Sydney's water supply in order to determine the [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3101

Environmental Degradation in Lithgow’s Waters

An examination of the PH level in the waters in the sample sites also presented the following results: What must first be understood is that a PH rate of one to six is indicative of [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3957

The Relation of the Ecosystem Services with Business

In order to ensure that the study does not digress a lot on the inter-dependence that exists between the ecosystem services and the corporate world, the study will concentrate on the dependency of the forest, [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1256

Business and an Impact on Ecosystem

The reliance of a business or corporation on ecosystem services depends on the location of a business, the source of its materials and the technology employed.
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1116

Promoting Xeriscaping in the US

The state of Florida was one of the few states in the US to enact water conservation legislation that gives emphasis to xeriscaping.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2759

Climate Change: Floods in Queensland Australia

Over the recent past, the issue of climatic change has raised major concern about the well being of the recent as well as the future generation. The rail lines were also destroyed the fact that [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1321

Changes in Greenhouse Gas Emissions (UK)

Records showing the changes in greenhouse gas emissions will be factored in the study, plus the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3394

Climate Change as a Global Security Threat

It is important to stress that agriculture problems can become real for the USA as well since numerous draughts and natural disasters negatively affect this branch of the US economy.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 638

Discontent Security Implications

The sale in 1995 of the Valparaiso factory to Chinese interests under the auspices of a globalized economy and its subsequent closure in 2006 triggered utter discontent about globalization among U.S.citizens and heightened security concerns [...]
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1402

Nuclear Power Use Controversies

As a result, a person in the industrial world needs to have a wide knowledge of its environment. For example, technological adaptation is tied to interest of the public and the government.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1680

Water Management in Houston

The consumers also participate in the management of the water sources. The main sources of water in Houston include lakes, rivers, aquifers, reservoirs and wells.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 2928

E-Waste Problem and Cell Phones

Since these products are mostly manufactured in the developed nations, the dumping ground for the old products is often the developing world.
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1778

On the Rescue Mission: Preserving the Environment

To emphasize the significance of the sustainable development, it must be mentioned that the idea that underlines the new approach is the efficient use of the natural resources without harming the environment and at the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1901

Learning of Environment Sustainability in Education

Humans pay much attention to satisfying their needs but they do not bother to reserve the resources because they do not understand that the resources they are using today are not replaced when they are [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2094

How Bad Pollution Is in the Arab World

Currently, the Arab world materializes to be amongst the fastest growing countries in terms of population. UNDP estimate that by 2003, the amount of emissions in the Arab world rose to 1013 metric tons from [...]
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 604

Environmental Reporting Guidelines

An environmental reporting guideline is an episodic publication of environmental reporting involving organizational activities as well as the status of their environmental effects and the environmental contemplation.
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 889

Types of Carbon Sequestration

When the above approach has been adopted, the main concern of the users is to ensure that the rate of carbon emission in the atmosphere is reduced.
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2482

Natural and the Environmental Protection

As a result, this paper attempts to answer the question "Should a corporation care about and protect the natural environment?" Apparently, environmental protection can be an opportunity to strengthen the relationship between a corporation and [...]
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  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 917

Silent Spring and Environmental Issues

Despite the credibility for both sides of the argument, this paper agrees with the message of Silent Spring by arguing that although the use of DDT has declined in modern times, the environmental destruction of [...]
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1689

Climate Change Needs Human Behavior Change

The thesis of this essay is that human behavior change, including in diet and food production, must be undertaken to minimize climate change, and resulting misery.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 1812

Sustainability and Waste Management

Secondly, this approach can decrease the cost of energy, and this opportunity is important for the economic sustainability of the country.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1362

Merger of the US Airways and American Airlines

In addition, the critics of the merger argue that the amalgamation would hinder the prevention of the America Airlines Group Inc.'s anticompetitive consequences. On the contrary, the proponents of the merger argued that the amalgamation [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2758

Solar Energy in the UAE

It is important to note that the nature of the solar field is modular, and that it has a number of parallel solar collector rows.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2190

Great Barrier Reef: Flood Alleviation Solutions

In the first presentation, solutions to protect the Great Barrier Reef, which is endangered from rising acidity levels due to methane extraction, were given while the second, third and fourth presentations focused on the measures [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1103

The Natural Resource Curse

In addition, after the sale of the resources, it is difficult to track with accuracy the exact amount of money that eventually ends up in projects that are for the benefit of the country.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1632

Environmental Justice Concern Of Groundwork Lawrence

In Massachusetts, the Groundwork Lawrence MA is one of such nonprofit making organizations where it works with residents of Lawrence to make Lawrence a greener, cleaner, and a safer place to live in by addressing [...]
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  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3636

Issues with Carbon Credits in a worldwide economy

Furthermore, they claim that the worth of emissions is regularized by the government and not changes in the market hence enabling predictability of energy prices, and that when credits go beyond the third generation new [...]
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 21
  • Words: 5686

The Global Ocean Conveyor Belt

This ocean water phenomenon is a result of the temperature difference in the ocean waters between the warm, salty surface water, and the less salty cold water in the ocean depths.
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  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 593

Risk and Safety Management of the nuclear industry

This is due to the need to ensure reliability of plants even as growth of the industry increases and the acknowledgement that the safety culture not only lowers the costs incurred in maintenance of safety [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2330

Carbon Taxes in Environmental Protection

In addition, application of the strategy extends to the use of fuels and the amount of carbon emitted in the process of production.
  • Subjects: Global Warming
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1968

Growing role of Shale Gas

The most important factor to be considered in Shale gas extraction is the level of gas in Shale gas reservoirs. The impact of Shale gas is expected to be felt in global natural gas production.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2821

Life Cycle for a plastic bottle

In addition to that, the number of businesses involved in the recycling of plastic bottles in the US is more than 1500.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 774

Algae Derived Fuels in the Aviation Industry

After coverage of developments in the sector, the advantages and limitations of the fuel source were identified. The aircraft belonged to the US military and thus demonstrated that this government had faith in the possibilities [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2102

Lighter Than Air Observational Platform

The purpose of the junctions is to reduce one of the largest sources of loss in solar cells, and hence each junction is tuned to a different wavelength of light to improve efficiency.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3346

Solar Energy Business Model Based in Melbourne

Competitiveness The concentration of solar energy consultancy industry Industry concentration is a term used to define the measure of the number of organizations as well as the size of the organizations, which are considered predominant [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3793

Communications: McDonald’s Business Agendas

Just as the company has grown and continues to grow in size and grasp of the industry, McDonald's has also had impressive results and performance which have earned the admiration of investors and the envy [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1779

Disaster Management: The case of the Gonu Cyclone

This plan involved the estimation of the damage in the wake of the cyclone, the individuals and communities affected as well as the amount needed to compensate the victims of the disaster.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Urban Sprawl and Motorization

The effects range from high level of energy consumption and use of transportation, cooling and heating facilities up to the sustenance of social thriving of urban neighborhoods. One of the greatest effects of urban sprawl [...]
  • Subjects: Ecological Identity
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

Should The Seas be Owned?

This paper opposes the view that the significant thing is the relations between the ecological systems and humans. Grimond emphasizes that the catastrophe of the sea is the catastrophe of the commons.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Regulation and Management of Haze Pollution in Canada

The legislation is the oldest of its kind and empowers the national government to initiate programs relating to air pollution assessment; set air quality objectives and set standards linked to the source.
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1588

Tourism and Ecosystem

Basically, tourism occurs in two forms: "the journey to the destination and the stay including the activities at the destination". The impact of tourism on the ecosystem is usually evaluated in terms of an ecological [...]
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1659

The Water System: Rivers, Streams and Lakes

The techniques used to compare rivers in the world involve an analysis of the size of the drainage area, the length of the main stem and the mean discharge.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1144

Persistent Organic Pollutants: Global Impact & Challenge

Industries with large distribution of power are the chief producers of PCBs to the environment, whereby PCBs are released by accidental spillage or careless abandonment of PCB equipment in the environment.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1925

The SARS: How Can the Pandemic Be Prevented?

The problem is in the fact that the connection of the SARS with the environmental issues can be discussed as the interdependence because researchers discuss the changes in the environmental temperature which can cause the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118

Nuclear Energy Usage and Recycling

The resulting energy is used to power machinery and generate heat for processing purposes. The biggest problem though is that of energy storage, which is considered to be the most crucial requirement for building a [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 904

Community Power and Sustainable Development in Sydney

The level of consumption of minerals within the world is attributed to high population growth rate. The design should be capable of accommodating pedestrians and other transport means such as use of bicycles, train and [...]
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2413

Abu Dhabi Wind Energy

The report covers energy crisis in Abu Dhabi, wind energy as a potential source of renewable energy for Abu Dhabi, and recommendations.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 2595

Greenhouse Business Challenge

Just like many other countries in the world, Australia is involved in the efforts towards the reduction of the effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 537

Reduction of Fire-associated Deaths Since 1977

This has been done through consideration of both statistics and trends in the number of deaths related to fire as recorded in death certificates as either smoke inhalation or burns.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1389

China and Global Warming

Bearing in mind that global warming is such a threat to livelihood, it is imperative for China to start looking into ways of reducing its industrial activities for the sake of others living on planet [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 575

Impact of Economic Growth on Environmental Sustainability

Because of constant development of the richest economies, such as the United Kingdom, and United States, the consumption levels of the global population surpass the actual amount of natural resources that the Earth has prepared [...]
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 479

Adaptations of trees in the rainforest biomes

The trees in the rainforest biomes have developed several adaptations to enable them to survive the conditions in the area. The large surface of the leaves would also mean that there is a larger surface [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Processes
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

Proposal to mine coal on Denniston Plateau

The coal firm will make a series of payments to the Council in order to facilitate some of the regulatory requirements, and this will also be a source of revenue for it.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2273

Water Wars in Bolivia

In the year 2000, the World Bank advised the Bolivian government to privatize its water service system. Bolivian authorities should ensure that appropriate laws and authorities are put in place to regulate the involvement of [...]
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  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1310

Acidic Rain Effects on the Environment

Preview The interest of this paper is to explore the impacts of acidic rain on the PH of the soil and the leaching processes.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1130

Plants and Carbon Dioxide

In this context, it is true that plants will not increase their CO2 uptake in response to increased levels of the gas in the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

Endangered Species Issue in the United States

Thus, the extinction of wolves in our ecosystem will results in an increase in the ungulates population comprising of unhealthy and undesired preys. With more wolves in an ecosystem, the number of ungulates will reduce.
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

Deforestation in Thailand

The environmental value of the forests in Thailand is evident in the efforts the government and other stakeholders undertake to conserve the environment.
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  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

Political Ecology and Water Resources

Throughout this paper, the concepts that are core to the discipline of political ecology will facilitate the analysis of water wars that have typified communities in the rural areas of Bolivia.
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1899

The Issue of Bottled Water Consumption

The steady rise in the demand for bottled water is causing hips of unnecessary garbage and resulting in the consumption of vast quantities of energy according to the report by Earth Policy Institute.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 654

Design Systems. Water Supply & Sanitation

This water is usually tapped from the roof of the houses and directed to the jars. The roofs of the houses play a significant role in determining the quantity and quality of water that shall [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1682

Hazard Adjustments in Alaska

Moreover, the authorities must have facilities that can be used to remove snow in major facilities such as roads and airports.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 628