MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY BMO5501 BUSINESS ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY BMO5501 Assignment 1 Part B: Sustainability Recommendation Report VU Lecturer: Ms Judith Watson Local Tutor: Mr Paul Linus Andrews Prepared by: Chua Yu Kiat (VU ID 4185059) Jullian John (VU ID 4202536) Teoh Xuan Jing (VU ID 4184633) Wong Wing Tien (VU ID 3906101) Assignment 1 Part B: Sustainability Recommendation Report VU Lecturer: Ms Judith Watson
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Environmental Disasters For the purpose of this article an environmental disaster is defined as a specific event caused by human activity that results in a seriously negative effect on the environment. Sometimes a natural disaster can become an environmental disaster‚ but that is a topic to be discussed elsewhere. In most cases environmental disasters are caused by human error‚ accident‚ lack of foresight‚ corner cutting during industrial processes‚ greed‚ or by simple incompetence. In other
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Risks‚ Regulations and Management of Natural Disasters Brooke McGuire Park University GO125 Natural Disasters Carla Contes Risks‚ Regulations and Management of Natural Disasters Introduction There are many risks involved in any natural disaster and the regulation and management of these disasters needs to be simplified and standardized. This essay will summarize two articles that pertain to natural disasters and the improvement of responses and policies surrounded them and
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The Issue of Sustainability Investigating sustainability‚ Report for the Initiative of the Global Tiger Recover Program Executive summary The purpose of this report is to outline the issue of sustainability. This report will give an understanding to what sustainability is and how it has become a serious issue. It will outline the principles of sustainability. A number of guidelines researched and established to ensure a deep understanding of the issue. The
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Natural Disasters The government has come under fire quite a few times following natural disasters. Their main responsibility in response to these disasters is to provide the tools citizens in the affected area need to recover as quickly as possible. The first and most important response is to food and water needs of the displaced. The communication of the distribution location has proven to be difficult to find out immediately after the destruction takes place. Also‚ extended shelter seems
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ECONOMICS CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT: Corporate Social Responsibility What in it for business? Introduction Within the last two decades awareness of the ecological impacts of human activities has grown considerably. Nowadays‚ people expect companies to be conscious regarding their public and ecological responsibilities against society and conform their businesses in compliance with their obligations. My case study assignment will be structured as follows: it will start with
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drilling activities adopt the plan for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico produced by petroleum giant BP to assure the agency that the environmental damage from the spill anywhere would be "minimal or nonexistent". Predict the worst case spill 1500-4600 barrels. MMS approved BP’s plan to set a cement plug to the temporary closure of wells with only a 90-minute telephone conversation between the MMS and BP officials. BP declares MMS application ’categories excluded "from environmental analysis and give oil companies
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nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials. According to the International Business Times (Australia) "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic disaster.” (IBT‚ 01) On April 2011 The Nuclear Institute rated the disaster a Level 7 “Major Accident” on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The International Nuclear Event Scale How the reactors were damaged An earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on a Richter Scale initially damaged
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physics generated from natural disasters. The specific natural disaster that will be focused on in this essay is tsunami waves. The paper will explain various ways that tsunamis may be generated which can even happen from the results of another natural disaster‚ the damage that tsunamis can cause as it hits land‚ and of course the physics in the tsunami’s waves relative to the damages. Tsunamis are one of the world’s most dangerous and a commonly formed natural disaster needing only a build up into
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Systems‚ Society and Sustainability The global challenge of sustainable development requires solutions and mindsets that bridge traditional divisions between nature and culture‚ and the technical and social sciences. Sustainable development requires that engineers and other professionals are able to include social and ecological considerations alongside technical and economic requirements in managing projects and infrastructure. This course outlines the challenges of sustainability‚ introduces some
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