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    Environmental Pollution

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    Pollution - Environmental pollution is any discharge of material or energy into water‚ land‚ or air that causes or may cause acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term) detriment to the Earth ’s ecological balance or that lowers the quality of life. Pollutants may cause primary damage‚ with direct identifiable impact on the environment‚ or secondary damage in the form of minor perturbations in the delicate balance of the biological food web that are detectable only over long time periods. Until relatively

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    Environmental Education

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    Environmental Education Environmental education (EE) refers to organized efforts to teach about how natural environments function and‚ particularly‚ how human beings can manage their behavior and ecosystem in order to live sustainably. The term is often used to imply education within the school system‚ from primary to post-secondary. However‚ it is sometimes used more broadly to include all efforts to educate the public and other audiences‚ including print materials‚ websites‚ media campaigns

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    Environmental Law

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    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 1. To what extent have the principles of environmental law been incorporated in the Environmental Protection Act 2000 20TH MARCH‚ 2004. Introduction The environment is made up of the physical‚ biological and human elements. These three are different facets of one and the same environment. Not only in recent years‚ the human environment has begun to impinge and burden the physical and biological environment. It is only in recent years that the public has been made aware

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    Environmental Disasters

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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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    Environmental Health and Health Effects of Environmental Abstract Environmental health addresses all the physical‚ chemical‚ and biological factors external to a person‚ and all the related factors impacting behaviors. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health. It is targeted towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments (WHO‚ 2001). This is what the several articles and videos provided for the class help

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    Environmental laws

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    Chapter 2 Environmental Laws‚ Economics‚ and Ethics Lecture Outline: I. A Brief Environmental History of the United States A. During the 18th and 19th centuries‚ most Americans had a frontier attitude toward nature and its resources B. Protecting forests i. Numerous men contributed to the protection of American forests throughout the 19th and 20th centuries 1. Influential artists and authors (i.e.‚ John James Audubon‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ George Perkins Marsh) aroused widespread public

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    Environmental Determinism

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    Environmental Determinism Throughout the study of geography‚ there have been a number of different approaches to explaining the development of the world’s societies and cultures. One that received much prominence in geographic history but has declined in recent decades of academic study is environmental determinism. Environmental determinism is the belief that the environment (most notably its physical factors such as landforms and/or climate) determines the patterns of human culture and societal

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    Environmental Psychology

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    Martin—IAAP Handbook of Applied Psychology Se 18 Environmental Psychology Robert Gifford‚ Linda Steg‚ and Joseph P. Reser Environmental psychology is the study of transactions between individuals and their physical settings (Gifford‚ 2007a). In these transactions‚ individuals change their environments‚ and their behavior and experiences are changed by their environments. It includes theory‚ research‚ and practice aimed at making the built environment more humane and improving human relations

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    Environmental Controversy

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    Why is it important to understand the role of science in environmental controversy? Understanding the role in which science plays in an environmental controversy is a crucial element for a comprehensive analysis. The use of scientific knowledge is often represented as a fundamental principle within environmental controversies. The centralized view of science relates to many factors. Firstly‚ the assumptions of science as an authority lend it to be a privileged type of knowledge. Secondly‚ as the

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    Environmental Pollution

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    Environmental Pollution Samantha Arrieta SCI/256 November 5‚ 2013 Analila Lucero Environmental Pollution As an associate-level environmental scientist‚ many concerns have risen in regards to the environmental‚ climate‚ economical and social consequences. Because of overpopulated cities‚ there have been some negative factors. The focus to address these issues could be in addressing the weaknesses in already existing laws with stronger enforcement. In the following‚ I will present a summary

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