Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY 1 Environmental Sustainability Kim Saia Baton Rouge Community College ENVS 201 Professor Deadra Mackie May 8‚ 2013 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Environmental Sustainability Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions needed to support us now and in future generations by working to ensure we continue to have the water‚ materials‚ and resources to protect us and the environment ("What is sustainability?‚" n.d.‚ para. 1). Environmental sustainability
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Environmental Racism in Los Angeles and its Formation The siting of a $500 million railyard project backed by BNSF Railroad Company‚ which recently won the approval from Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners and Los Angeles City Council‚ has been a highly debated issue in Long Beach‚ Los Angeles. According to a report from Pacific Swell‚ ‘The BNSF railway’s project would serve as a transfer point between the harbor complex and rail. Short-haul trucks would travel four miles up the freeway to move
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Environmental Disaster Who would have known that on April 20th 2010‚ the United States would soon be facing the worst environmental disaster. On that fateful day‚ an offshore oilrig named the “Deepwater Horizon” suffered an explosion. Seventeen people were injured and eleven people died from the accident. The damaged oilrig sank into the Gulf of Mexico the next day‚ and a one-by-five mile oil slick appeared in the ocean. At the time‚ it was unknown whether the oil was from the rig or if the
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for use of both biological & physical resources to meet his multiple demands‚man has polluted all the three realms of the earth-lithosphere‚hydrosphere & atmosphere.it is essential for us to know about environment & its pollution. In this presentation we will be able to know about- •Environment •Biosphere •Ecosystem model •Atmosphere •Atmospheric pollution •Primary & secondary pollutants •Acid rain •Ozone depletion •Green house effect •Noise pollution That which surrounds‚ the total sum of the condition
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Environmental Chemistry: Water testing in Bouregreg Valley Nowadays we are more and more concerned of environmental issues and especially the ones about water since experts have remarked that wetland regions are disappearing (50% reduction). Wetland regions are very important because they help preserve different wildlife species and also can be considered important indicators of the health of the “blue planet”. One of the most interesting wetland regions is the Bouregreg one that is close to
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landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] Environmental disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. But the management of such disasters has not kept pace at the required level. Major environmental disasters such as the 1952 London
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NO. 1 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS Introduction A collective term describing international treaties‚ statutes‚ regulations‚ and common law and national legislation that operates to regulate the interaction of humanity and the natural environment‚ towards the purpose of human activity is called Environmental law (Akpan‚ 2004). Environmental impact statements have mostly been applied to individual projects and have led to various offshoot techniques‚ such as health impact assessments‚ social
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Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activitity on the biophysical environment. Environmentalism‚ a socialand environmental movement that started in the 1960s‚ addresses environmental issues through advocacy‚ education and activism. The carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere has already exceeded 400 parts per million (NOAA) (with total "long-term" GHG exceeding 455 parts per million). (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report) This level is considered
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Environmental Scan Nanette Guffey MGT/ 498 – Strategic Management Richard Haines September 17th‚ 2012 Environmental scanning is an organization’s strategic management and is actual important to the corporation. Environmental scanning is getting-together data for the external and the internal of the company.
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Environmental Ethics “Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to‚ and also the value and moral status of‚ the environment and its nonhuman contents” (Brennan‚ 1). We as human beings depend on our surrounding environments in order thrive‚ and so it is necessary to make choices on how to keep our environment healthy. With the advancement of technology and the global economy‚ our lifestyles have shifted from a purely agricultural
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