Environmental Law; BP &Deepwater Drilling BP P.L.C. is a company that has been in the energy business for more than a century. This corporation has been improving its operations in different parts of the world thanks to its constant research‚ and it has become a world leader as an oil and gas producer. Also‚ it is one of the pioneers in deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico‚ and it is the largest lease holder in the United States with more than 650 lease blocks in waters greater than 1‚250 feet
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Environmental Values University of Phoenix Environmental Issues and Ethics SCI/362 April 21‚ 2008 Environmental Values Finding an answer to the growing problem of the degeneration of the forests‚ ecosystems and environments can be looked at in three different approaches: ecofeminism‚ pluralism or pragmatism. Whether ecofeminism‚ pluralism‚ or pragmatism offer the correct path to reaching the resolution to environmental degradation‚ therein lays an answer; however‚ how does
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Environmental Accounting Where We Are Now‚ Where We Are Heading by Joy E. Hecht Interest is growing in modifying national income accounting systems to promote understanding of the links between economy and environment. T he field of environmental accounting has made great strides in the past two decades‚ moving from a rather arcane endeavor to one tested in dozens of countries and well established in a few. But the idea that nations might integrate the economic role of the environment into
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Environmental Scanning The environment is responsible for more company changes that the general public often realizes. The future of a company depends on the reaction that the company has to environmental changes. By not adapting to the changes‚ companies could ultimately end up failing. Recognizing that the environment is changing‚ businesses need to be able to adapt their products to keep up with new opportunities and balance a strategic fit between the environment and the company (Wheelen
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Defining Environmental Crimes Environmental crime is a serious and growing concern at national as well as international level‚ and one which takes many different forms. Environmental crime in broad terms means an act which is committed with the intention of damaging or causing damage to the ecological and biological systems to ensure business or personal benefit. The types of acts commonly recognised as environmental crime are: pollution or other contamination of air‚ land and water; illegal discharge
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Pollution Caused by Urbanization and Its Solutions There are a large number of people who move to metropolitan areas in search of better job opportunities and living conditions. This process is called urbanization which is featured by a faster increase of urban population and economic development compared with rural areas. In spite of economic growth and improvement of basic facilities‚ cities‚ especially in developing countries‚ suffer from negative consequences of urbanization and postindustrialization
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How Global Population Growth is Creating Serious Environmental Problems According to Population Connection‚ population growth since the 1950’s is behind the diminishing of 80 percent of rainforests. It also accounts for the loss of thousands of plant and wildlife species‚ and an increase in in green house gas emissions. It also widely believed that population will account for water scaring as well. . IN less developed countries the lack of birth control‚ as well as cultural traditions that
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POLICIES AND STANDARDS AS THEY AFFECT ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING INTRODUCTION The environment refers the totality of man’s soroundings including components such as Land‚ Water bodies and the envelope of air that sorounds us which is reffered to as the atmosphere. It also includes the social and economic aspects of human life. There is a delicate balance between all the components of the environment for the the benefit of man’s existence. Alterations to this balance can have drastic consequences
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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 crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are di¢ cult if not impossible to reverse. Examples would be major extinctions and significant degradations of an ecosystem. The world is facing a very serious environmental crisis. Key environmental problems include air pollution‚ the destruction of the ozone layer‚ vast quantities of toxic waste‚ massive levels of soil erosion‚ the possible exhaustion of key natural resources such as oil
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