Environment Essay Examples and Topics. Page 21

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Fire Management Practices

The different classes of fires are on the basis of the fuel that ignites the fire, a factor that further gives the criteria for choosing the most suitable agent to be used in extinguishing the [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2555

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

The Problem of Drought on Earth

Conservation measures should therefore be aimed at preserving the vegetation so as to provide a habitat for the wildlife One way of conserving the reserve would be to transfer the lions and dogs and some [...]
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 849

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

Carbon Footprint and Renewable Energy

The consumption of fossil fuels by the energy infrastructure is one of the greatest sources of greenhouse gases which are responsible for recent global warming and climate change concern. This is the increase in the [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2399

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

Natural Hazards and Disasters

Their main purpose is to inform the reader about the dangers of natural disasters and the support that is usually provided by the government to those, who suffered from these disasters.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 837

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

Evolution of Planning and Design

It has been argued that, 'While Environmental Planning emerged as a profession in the 1970s, the environmental planning movement was evident sometime before this.' The main purpose of this paper is to explore the origins [...]
  • Subjects: Air Pollution
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2457

Impact of Climate Change and Solutions

The continuous emission of green house gases to the atmosphere through human activities has led to the accumulation of the gases in the atmosphere thereby increasing their concentration over time.
  • Subjects: Climate Change
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3862

How I Organize my Trash

The waste clearly indicates the nature of the population that stayed in these households. The nature of such wastes depicts the likes and dislikes of certain individuals or group of people that reside in the [...]
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 590

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

Carbon Fiber Production and Concerns

Carbon fiber consists of fiber of about 5 to 10 m in diameter made of mostly carbon atoms. The cost of processing carbon fiber is high compared to other competing materials like fiber glass.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1046

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

Reducing Standby Energy Wastage in Canada

In order to elaborate on this wastage of energy, we would estimate the amount of energy wasted annually in a Canadian family in this manner.
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 797

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

Water Quality and Treatment

The main objective of this paper is to identify the main impurities in water that pose threats to the health of households.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3389

Environmental Policy Making in Developing Countries

The country's environment is one of the richest in the world because of not only the flora and fauna, but also because of its ecosystems, which contain an excess of 15 % of the plant [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Management
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2520

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

Management of E-Waste

The school can contact the vendors and suppliers of such equipment for disposal. The school can identify the surplus equipment and organize a local auction to dispose them off.
  • Subjects: Recycling
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 279

Flooding in New Zealand

Debris materials and boulders reduce the capacity of rivers and obstruct the flow of water in rivers that are in New Zealand, and thus contribute to the occurrence of perennial floods.
  • Subjects: Disasters
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

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: 6558

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: 11
  • Words: 3012

Deepwater Horizon Blowout

As the British Petroleum is the major producer of oil in the world, the incident has resulted in the petroleum price changes and influenced the location of rigs previously located in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 2998

Science and the Use of Non-Renewable Energy Resources

It is scientific knowledge that the use of fossil fuels such as oil leads to the pollution of the environment. This is the reason why science can be used to explain the lethal effects of [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

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

Planting Trees on Bloor Avenue in Downtown Toronto

The report analyses the zoning of the area and looks into the appropriate amendments made on the zoning bylaws. This is supposed to affect the construction of new structures, readjusting the packing zone as well [...]
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1387

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

Fossil Energy and Economy

The city is beautiful and elegant, and the whole world agrees that it is the city of the future. This is bad news to the environment because of the negative effects of coal mining and [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1696

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

Wildness as Important Part of Nature

In this context, the forest in this context is the wilderness while the animals and plant species found in this forest referred to as the wildness.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2144

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

Country Profile: Kingdom of Bhutan

The chief of the state of Bhutan is the king, and the throne is hereditary in the male line of the Wangchuk dynasty, which was established in 1907, when a system of joint chiefs of [...]
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1912

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

“Greening the Ghetto” by Majora Carter

She argues that poor zoning laws by New York City authorities allow business firms which pollute the environment, to operate in South Bronx.
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

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

It is About Lake

The Rift region constitutes of such lakes as the Lake Baringo in Kenya, Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, the Dead sea, Reelfoot lake in Tennessee near the Mississippi River were formed as result of the earthquake.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1448

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

Water Consumption in the World

The results of the investigative study into the daily water usage within households in Abu Dhabi show a mean average of 135 gallons/per day for the 15 households that were involved in this project.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1084

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

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

Sustainable Development of Toronto

The rate of resource depletion and pollution of the environment in many countries in the world is alarming. This essay examines the meaning of sustainability and its benefits for Oslo City in Norway as well [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

The Environmental Abuses by the Powerplant Company

This can often lead the deterioration of ecosystems located in local rivers and streams as the amount of metal particulates not only slowly poisons the fish but can actually cause a certain degree of cloudiness [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

Sustainability Measures in Eco-Homes

Indeed, "energy harvested from water, wind and sunlight are generally known as renewable energy due to the fact that they are never exhausted".
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2467

Importance of Environment

Schlosberg believes that all the terms has only led to confusion with little help, he says "Yet all of these developments in justice theory, very little has been applied in environmental justice movement".
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 838

Timber and Sustainability

It is therefore important to know that the use of timber in the construction industry contributes to the degradation of the environment.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2640

The Key Drivers of Climate Change

The use of fossil fuel in building cooling and heating, transportation, and in the manufacture of goods leads to an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3002

1906 San Francisco Fire Disaster

As a matter of fact, the fire fighting department in this city ran out of water that was necessary to calm the fire.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

Concept of Environmental Ethic in Society

One of the issues that are highlighted by the authors is the anthropocentrism of contemporary environmental ethics. One can take utilitarian or deontological perspectives, but it is always possible to institutionalize the principles of environmental [...]
  • Subjects: Human Impact
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 537

Effects of Oil Spills on Aquatic Environments

It is however important to mention that the severity of the damage caused by oil spills depends on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the season and weather, type and quantity [...]
  • Subjects: Ecosystem
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2767

Adopting Alternative Fuels

The best solution to these problems is the adoption of alternative fuels. Despite the controversy surrounding the adoption of alternative fuels, they provide the best alternative for human survival.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

Water Usage in University of Ottawa

This report through the use of the 2012 Ottawa University Environmental journal database will examine current trends in water usage and consumption among members of the University of Ottawa community in order to determine whether [...]
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2235

Fire Prevention at Waste Handling and Control

Waste compactors are the machines that make use of electromechanical hydraulics to minimize the wastes generated and package it in smaller amounts.
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2936

The North Haven Fire Department

Through this division of labor it becomes very easy to offer quality fire fighting services to the residents of The New Haven town in terms of public awareness on fire fighting equipments and the steps [...]
  • Subjects: Environmental Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1151

Geology of Palouse Falls

The rocks, of which basalt is the most common, are mostly metamorphic and were formed as a result of the cooling of floodwaters and ice.
  • Subjects: Ecology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840