of this report should be reproduced without my consent or that of the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project Phase II - Kenya OGADA MILTON OMONDI Sign …………………. Date ………............... DEDICATION This report is dedicated to my beloved family Members. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This industrial attachment has contributed to me invaluable lessons and brought me to acquaintance with the environmental issues and the natural resource management methods resulting to the overall protection
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available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-6119.htm IJCHM 18‚4 Hotels’ environmental management systems (ISO 14001): creative financing strategy Wilco W. Chan and Kenny Ho School of Hotel and Tourism Management‚ Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hung Hom‚ Hong Kong Abstract Purpose – Environmental concerns have been increasing in the travel industry. However‚ most hotels are unwilling to develop an international environmental management system (EMS) probably due to a lack of resources and knowledge
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Environmental Determinism and Possibilism: Shaping and Reshaping Life Since the Beginning of Time Possibilism and Environmental Determinism‚ both completely different in theory‚ and yet so very linked in purpose. Environmental Determinism is the idea that the environment shapes its inhabitants‚ and will --or will not-- provide for them to accomplish their goals. While Possibilism is the idea that mankind –for this example it will be routinely mankind and not another species—can accomplish their
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The Environmental Impact of Tourism 1. Tourism and the Environment The term ‘environment’ is a generic concept. It encompasses different contexts including the cultural‚ social‚ political and economic. The most often assumed meaning of environment is that of nature. However‚ we must also remember that how we use nature carries with political‚ economic and social implications. We know that the impacts of human activities upon nature have implications for its biodiversity and the welfare
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Environmental degradation DEFINITION: Environmental degradation may be defined as the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air‚ water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife. Environmental degradation has occurred due to the recent activities in the field of socio-economic‚ institutional and technologies. Environmental changes are dependent on many factors including economic growth‚ population growth‚ urbanization‚ intensification
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resource base is under serious threat and environmental planning is essential for the survival with dignity for Bangladesh’s over 115 million people & for sustainability of the echo system. Like all other nations of the world Bangladesh also acted to the global call for the protection and conservation of natural environment & ecology. Industrial development significantly contributes towards economic growth of a country. It brings along with it a host of environmental problem too. It is increasingly being
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Environmental Pollution Outline 1. Complete the following outline using Ch. 21–25 of the text. Use complete sentences. Here is an example: a. Example - Environmental History 1) Before 1960 a) Few people had ever heard the word ecology. b) The term‚ environment‚ meant little as a political or social issue. 2) Silent Spring by Rachel Carson a) Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1960. b) At about the time the book was published‚ several environmental events were occurring. c) Examples
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Chinese Environmental Policy Summary • Chinese Climate Change. • Impacts and Costs of Pollution in China. • Environmental Policy in China. • China as the dominant player in green technologies. I) Chinese Climate Change A) •) •) Ø) Ø) Ø) Origin 1972: First Occidental opening with USA ( Mao Zedong invited Richard Nixon to visit China) 1976: Deng Xiaoping lead a Liberalisation Policy Economic Change Industrialisation Foreign Factories relocation
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Fundamental Principles of Environmental Protection Sustainable Development The concept of sustainable use of earth’s resource is an ancient one. Without the principles of sustainability as a way of life‚ humans would not have survived in the 20th century. The principle of sustainable development received impetus with the adoption of Stockholm Declaration in 1972‚ World Conservation Strategy prepared in 1980 by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) with the advice and assistance of the United Nations
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Causes of Environmental Problems The Earth is our home and where we live. But these years‚ more and more problems are coming to destroy our mother land‚ such as political factors‚ wars‚ and environmental problems. The environmental problems such as overpopulation‚ use of fossil fuels or nuclear energy and deforestation are getting more and more grim‚ and harmful to the earth. The air pollution and water pollution has obviously become two of the most serious problems in the world. Air
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