Environment Essay Examples and Topics. Page 24

When examining the basis of the treaty established by the International Whaling Commission in relation to the protection of the whale species it can be seen that the entirety of the document was meant to [...]

The nature of energy for use in a building is dependent on a number of factors such as the landscape and orientation of the land on which the building has been constructed.

It is therefore important to know that the use of timber in the construction industry contributes to the degradation of the environment.

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.

The potential to render the region ecologically damaged or incapable of any other operations other than aggregate operations due to the arbitrary nature of the public designation of the region as a prime region for [...]

As a matter of fact, the fire fighting department in this city ran out of water that was necessary to calm the fire.

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 [...]

The central question that these readings pose is how the needs of people can be reconciled with the needs of the environment.

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 [...]

This is crucial for voluntary carbon market because some reports indicate that there are significant numbers of carbon offset projects, which do not contribute to the reduction in emissions of GHG.

Thus, basing on the scientific information at hand, it means that the more the quantity of gases emitted into the atmosphere the thicker the layer of the blanket and the warmer the earth.

Geothermal energy is an important alternative source of energy that can increase energy production and enhance environmental safety. In order to meet the national goal of achieving 20% of the total electrical energy production in [...]

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 [...]

Rolston states that people should understand that dichotomy of people and nature is illusive as people are a part of nature.

Waste compactors are the machines that make use of electromechanical hydraulics to minimize the wastes generated and package it in smaller amounts.

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 [...]

Due to the popularity of solar energy and its domination in the world market, it has been the most appropriate option for the country.

The main burden to eco systems is the pressure imposed by the consumption and waste management required to support the lifestyles of the affluent urban dwellers.

Research should also be conducted on intra and interoperability, and analyzing of the records of participation in the training of fire and EMS training. This will ease the communication of fire and EMS agencies and [...]

Maintaining equilibrium between environmental quality and cost is not efficient if all the polluting entities are treated uniformly despite the amount of emissions and concentration in a certain region.

The incentive scheme to be used to influence the ambient level can be in the form of compulsory payment, T. The amount to be paid depends on the difference between the actual ambient level and [...]

The researcher seeks to determine the magnitude of this effect and its general effect on the society in general and the firms affected in specific.

These fires have brought substantial impact on fire services requiring the need to rewrite the fire codes. This is essential in order to minimize the time required put off the fire.

The discussions relate to its environmental protection policies, enduring impacts on the environment, legal obligation on environmental protection quests, rivals environmental policies, and whether the company is environmentally friendly.

Moreover, human beings perceive that they are more superior to animal and other creatures in the world. Emotions are vital to human being and animals.

As a result the expansion of these resources and addition of new ones will be called for and this will in return have a negative impact on the environment as the natural ecosystem will be [...]

The research indicated governments must determine the best procedures to reduce the hurdles of replacing the unfavorable fossil oil fuel with renewable energy. Hydro energy eliminates the harmful effects of fossil oil use.

So, first of all, there is a need to point out that global warming seems to be not only an environmental and climatic issue, but also one of the most important mechanisms of evolution.

Apart from contemplating the necessity to develop some paradigms, researchers also focus on successful examples of the use of sustainable approach.

On the contrary, the AMCOR housing and parking project is represented by an organization that is of a smaller scale compared to that of the Murray basin conservation project.

Thus, it is classified as a primary pollutant because it is the most common pollutants in the environment. In the environment, the impact of carbon monoxide is felt overtime, since it leads to respiratory problems.

The lower the level of the energy pyramid, the higher the number of the organisms. In the circumstances of a rainforest ecosystem, the primary producers occupy the bottom of the energy pyramid.

The effects of global warming are the social and ecological changes because of increment of global temperature. Causes of the greenhouse gases due to the human activities are shown below: On the other hand, human [...]

The alternative policy that can impose the same outcome to the NSW government is to destroy the environmentally unfriendly electricity sources and support the electricity providers to set up new environment friendly electricity generators.

The river basin through the Washington department is able to regulate the quality of water and the distribution of water to the surroundings.

Besides, the paper determines potential, direct, and indirect social and economic costs, effects, acceptable risk level, and identifies appropriate risk reduction opportunities in the city of Georgia.

The increase in the concentration of green house gases consequently leads to a rise in the amount of thermal and infrared radiations on the surface of the earth.

When we consider the materials used in making the Maya paper in the ancient times, we find that the major material was the bark of the fig tree.

This is due to the fact that the production of nuclear power involves the release of radionuclides into the environment during the front and the back end processes.

The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, ENEC, brought together six UAE member states, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other countries such as the United States of America. The assertions made above indicate that UAE relies [...]

With the uncertainties in the oil market and the rapid deterioration of other sources of energy, it is time that the American government and other concerned organizations considered revolutionizing this source of energy in order [...]

The business will be called "Greensipi" - a plastic recycling firm that will be responsible for number of products and services.

Before a building designer can make effective decisions relating to fire safety design, the needs of the client regarding the function of the building and the general and unique conditions that are to be incorporated [...]

The amount of resources available to the current residents remains significantly the same even after inclusion of the medium density housing, this will over the time develop into a supply-demand phenomenah and eventually influence the [...]

As a result, the defects in the switch and the failure to inform the users of how critical the padlock was caused an escalation of the incident. This was as a result of the fuel [...]

Increased public awareness From 1960s, policies that affect management of national forest have led to increased information about planning and management of forest to the public as well as their participation in the process.

The changes in climate that have occurred are not sufficient to make the assertions that the world is in danger. The challenge is that the climate change supporters have gone to extents of politicizing the [...]

The development of the national grid led to a switch to electric power as the main source of energy.hydroelectric power and Wind power are yet to be utilized.

The formation of fuel NOx depends on the nitrogen content in the fuel as well as the level of oxygen in the reaction medium.

Thus, the establishment that the use of fossil fuels adversely affects the environment is important in explaining the shift to the use of renewable energy sources.

Al Gore mentioned that the bold steps that are supposed to be taken in order to deal with the climate crisis are similar steps that are supposed to be taken to deal with the problem [...]

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of logging on the forest resources in Uganda and offer recommendations that can be used to mitigate and manage the identified impacts.

The History of the Aborigines and European Settlers According to the Office of Environment and Heritage [herein referred to as OEH], the area on which Prospect Reservoir sits was formerly under the control of the [...]

This essay addresses some of the disturbances which have been experienced in the coral reefs of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary together with measures which have been implemented to salvage the ecosystem.

Although it has been argued that the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi would have a direct impact on the nuclear policy of the United States of America, this disaster should not have any effect on [...]

This high concentration of infrastructure is likely to increase the level of damages because a destruction of many buildings is likely to result in higher human deaths and more financial losses.

To assess the eventuality of an occurrence of a natural disaster, policy makers should access the geological and/or hydro-meteorological hazards to which a particular country or region is exposed; the location of Monroe County is [...]

The problem touches upon the rise of temperature of the Earth's atmosphere as well as the influence of gaseous emissions and combustion gases, which are the reasons for the ecologists and scientists' concern.

According to Torgerson: "The environmentalism that came onto the public scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s was part of an outburst of activism in civil society that was followed by the emergence of [...]

This American company has been in existence since the 1980's and in 1997 Smith and Fong Company got fully incorporated as a sustainable bamboo flooring product manufacturer. Smith and Fong Company is a market leader [...]

On the other side, while the conventional school of thought considers sustainable lifestyle as a continuously improving form of lifestyle in terms of the standards of living of the citizens, it is clear that improvement [...]

The study emphasizes on the negative effects of this features to the environment and methods of stopping them from harming the environment.

This is because the trees that attracted and trapped the moist clouds are no longer existent, thus the farmers have to manually water their crops.

As from 1978, the ICS was not only used in response to wild land fires but also in response to urban fires and to this regard, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and [...]

In the pursuit of the prevention of further depletion of the ozone, the emission-trading scheme aims at reducing by significant margins, the emission levels by regulating the amount of pollutants emitted by individual firms.

In this case, climate change is an economic problem because it has increased the costs of energy and we all know that energy is used for production activities.

In addition, the frequency of sound, duration of exposure, intermittence or continuation of sound, the age of a person and their health can affect the acuteness of the effects of noise pollution.

Nuclear power is perceived in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand and perhaps somewhere else in Asia as an ingredient in a resolution aimed at achieving the requirement of an exceptionally huge amplification of power manufacturing capacity [...]

Campaigns to inculcate the concepts of green consumerism are on and echoed in an abundant way all over the world but the question as to whether "green marketing contribute to the greening of a states [...]

Another advantage is the fact that most of the turbines that are used in the generation of wind power are located in ranches, and on farms.

The aim of the research is to provide substantial proof that nuclear energy is not efficient and sustainable. It is also argued that the whole process and the impacts of nuclear energy production make the [...]

As a result of the fact that these gases are present in the atmosphere in excessive amount, the heat that is sent back from the surface of the earth is put off by the atmosphere [...]

The principal emissions that contribute to acidic precipitation are sulfur dioxide and the various oxides of nitrogen that are as result of the burning of the fossil fuels.

Though economic benefits of such drilling are obvious, they do not outweigh the need to preserve the pristine nature of the area o the benefit of thousands of animal and plant species that depend on [...]

There is sufficient evidence that recent climate change is a result of human activities."Warming of the climate system is unequivocal; as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, [...]

The use of incentives to increase carbon credits is also a powerful tool in controlling the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted to the atmosphere.

As part of its broad objectives, the membership of EDF is open and consequently, any interested party can join the group.

The long wave radiation absorbed by the space rises the temperature of the earth and the atmosphere and the heated greenhouse gases radiate long wave radiations allover and majority of it is redirected to the [...]

Indeed, it is disturbing to note that the national forest cover has for the last five years declined by more than 4 percent despite the fact that our forest region, particularly in the southern United [...]

People depend with the environment directly or indirectly; as people industrialize, development of cities and towns, they increasingly are affecting the salinity of the environment. It is the responsibility of firms, governments and individuals to [...]

A sense of identity is entrenched in the present environment of human being, as there exists a connection between man and the world.

Burying of animals in regions which are not appropriate poses the risk of contamination if both water and soil. Areas which are frequently prone to flooding are likely to increase the chances of contamination.

Some of the effects that may come up owing to the reduction in the tundra vegetation and the expansion of the forest cover is the reduction in the level of the ratio of the reflected [...]

The article provides information on how to determine social and economic impacts and the importance of the same in environmental assessment in Canada.

Because of the complicacy in the relationships between a man and the nature, the problem of defining the man's role in ecology has gained a paramount importance.

However, the public is rather skeptical about the capacity of the private owners to manage the forests because of the following reasons.

Due to the similarity in the landscape of Iraq and some parts of the gulf, some effects of the Iraq war are similar to the effects of the gulf war.

This paper looks into how the societies are affecting the ecology of Kenya which is the country of choice giving an insight on the effects on the availability of the natural resources to the people, [...]

One of the reasons for the reluctance of the companies to the adaptation of the environmentally friendly operations is the natural force of resistance to change that is present in human beings combined with the [...]

Thus, the use of nuclear power presupposes a number of positive short-term and log-term consequences for the economy of the country and the environment of the planet.

Due to the fact that the mankind has broken the balance between the nature and the technological progress, it is obvious that the situation is becoming increasingly threatening.

The scarcity of clean fresh water is just one example of how the urban population is exploiting natural resources, resulting in the destruction of the ecological balance of both urban and rural areas.

Efficient use of some sources of energy such as fossil energy reduces instances of pollution, translating to the fact that people will enjoy healthy lifestyles. The government must encourage citizens to use renewable sources of [...]

This is because; the backbone of most global economies is agriculture and industrialization, factors that depend on the stability of the existing environmental conditions.

The name of the organization is ForestEthics and it is a nonprofit organization which is based in Canada as well as the United States.

The article Australia's Water Crisis brings to light the grim effects of the dwindling water resources within the city of Sydney.

Among the many options investigated nowadays by the scientists, geothermal energy occupies not the last place, possessing a number of both advantages and disadvantages that make it a point of debate in the energy-seeking society.

Others believe that the reason behind the occurrence of global warming is the negligence of people in the release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

The other area of study will be to determine, from bottled water companies, the proportion of water bottles that they actually recycle.

Specifically, the approach to solving the problem will span a careful investigation into the effects of bottled water and waste bottles in the environment, through the collection and analysis of primary data, interviewing company executives [...]

This content analysis is based on the centrist and decentrist methodology which are the common methods that are used in the debate of planning and constructing cities in this modern age. The subsidiary themes of [...]

The review of the topic shows that the relationship between urban developmental patterns and the dynamics of ecosystem are concepts that are still not clearly understood in the scholarly world as well as in general.

Proponents of climate change argue scientifically that the cause of global warming is the accumulation of green house gases and water vapor in the atmosphere over a period.

Proposals on the economics' of water resources FAO states, the escalating responsiveness that water shortage has brought forth the acceptance of the opinion that "water is an economic good" as one of the four Dublin [...]

The frightening evidence of the devastating tendencies in coral reef reduction can be illustrated by the case of the coral cover of the Rio Bueno, a coral reef site on the North East of Jamaica [...]

This Nuclear Policy Act gave the U,S Department of Defense the responsibility of finding a site and to build and operate a nuclear waste facility in the subsurface.

The burning of these fuels release tones of green house gases into the atmosphere which significantly contribute to the sustained increase in the surface temperature of the earth.

Of all these, the nuclear power is the latest, realized in the dawn of the 20th century following the discovery some crucial radioactive elements and reactions like uranium and nuclear fission respectively, both of which [...]

The most severe indictment of fossil fuels subsidies asserted by the authors of this article is that the benefit of any fuel subsidy accrues not to the poor of a country, but rather to the [...]

The use of solar energy can be critical for environmental and economic sustainability of many communities that can be located in different regions of the world.

The practice has significantly contributed to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The ever-increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will eventually increase [...]

To add to all the problems is the fact that the Earth is seeing a major depletion in the natural resources and fossil fuels which are the established source of energy that must be greatly [...]

All these are illustrations that climate change is real and skeptics of the process have no sound grounds to support their argument.

Additionally, the paper discusses the role of globalization in these disasters and the measures taken by retailers in this industry to curb the reoccurrence of such disasters in the future.

The Conlin-Beavan family answers the question about the source of inspiration making them adhere to the environmentalism thoughts and tells the readers about the reasons of their choices in their day to day life.

Technologies can hardly be defined as merely tools; instead, they can be evaluated on their own merits, as the indicators of the progress of the civilization and the measure of people's possibilities in terms of [...]

The accident led to the spilling of large volumes of oil into the waters on the Gulf of Mexico, thereby endangering aquatic lives. The Deepwater Horizon explosion was the largest and longest oil spill in [...]

Speaking of the effects of a power plant that is run on natural gas, it is necessary to point out that the effects on the environment are drastic, as a rule, seeing how the use [...]

The environment movement of the 1960's led to major environmental changes to address issues of water, oil and air pollution. Another incident that contributed to the awareness is the pollution of the Great Lakes.

However, the reconstruction of the city takes less time than the reconstruction of the environment destroyed by the flood, which is why the effects of the San Antonio flood on the environment must be reassessed.