Air Quality One of the different features of the natural environment to consider when planning a construction project is air quality. Good air quality is an essential part of a healthy environment‚ large factories tend to be located away from populated areas to prevent air pollution and large chimneys guide the pollution further up into the atmosphere to avoid any fallout to local inhabitants. However events in history such as the ‘Great Smog of 1952’ made such an impact that the government at the
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A role of the Environmental Ethics in the modern society The inspiration for environmental ethics was the first Earth Day in 1970 when environmentalists started urging philosophers who were involved with environmental groups to do something about environmental ethics. An intellectual climate had developed in the last few years of the 1960s in large part because of the publication of two papers in Science: Lynn White`s “The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis” (March 1967) and Garett Hardin`s
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sulphur Emissions Statement of the Problem In recent years‚ as increasing concerns about various environmental issues‚ there are a great number of studies focusing on this topic. One of the most popular approaches is to detect the relationship between pollution level and socio-economic development. This paper will address the problem of whether or not we can find empirical evidence for the environmental Kuznets curve for sulphur emissions. In other words‚ as
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CONTENT AND FORMAT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) Introduction EIA is an important tool for incorporating environmental concerns at the project level. EIA should be carried out as early as the project planning stage as part of feasibility thus it can assure that the project will be environmentally feasible. The general objectives of the EIA study are to provide; (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) baseline information about the environmental‚ social‚ and economic conditions in the project area; information
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their own. These environmental effects sometimes may be positive but sometimes they might have negative outcomes on children cognitive abilities. Enriched housing conditions (enriched environment‚ EE) during development has been shown to influence adult rat behavior and transmitter systems‚ especially dopamine receptors. (Leggio‚ Mandolesi‚Federico‚ Spirito‚ Ricci‚ Gelfo‚ F.‚ et al.‚ 2005). Leggio et al (2005) in their experiment have examined the behavioral effects of environmental quality on different
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1. In your own words summarize the “Social Environmental” level of the Social Ecological Model (3-4 sentences). The Social Environmental level of the Social Ecological Model deals with factors such as social support‚ social capital‚ social norms‚ and more. It is based on relationships on a larger scale than seen in the interpersonal level. It is essentially the emotional or social environment constructed by the personalities that live in an area (neighborhood)‚ or that are found participating in
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Chapter 3: Methodology of EIA December 1997 EIA for Developing Countries 3.0 Methods for Environmental Impact Assessment Changes in the practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and advances in information technology have greatly expanded the range of tools available to the EIA practitioner. For example‚ map overlay methods‚ originally pioneered by McHarg (1971)‚ have evolved into sophisticated Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Expert systems‚ a branch of artificial intelligence
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Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy Published by Macmillan Reference USA The field of environmental ethics is a new but now well-established sub-discipline of philosophy. Emerging in the mid-1970s‚ the field coalesced with the inaugural volume of the journal Environmental Ethics in 1979 and developed rapidly. By the turn of the century‚ most colleges and universities offered courses‚ if not major programs of study‚ in this important discipline. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics
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water in ongoing phytoremediation field tests. Environmental Science & Technology‚ 30(5)‚ 194A-194A. doi: 10.1021/es962219c Dushenkov‚ V.‚ Kumar‚ P Lasat‚ M. M. (2000). Phytoextraction of metals from contaminated soil: a review of plant/soil/metal interaction and assessment of pertinent agronomic issues.Journal of Hazardous Substance Research‚ 2(5)‚ 1-25. Lee‚ J. (2013). An overview of phytoremediation as a potentially promising technology for environmental pollution control. Biotechnology and Bioprocess
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With cities worldwide facing daunting environmental challenges on a global scale‚ a multidisciplinary team at Arup (an independent firm of designers‚ planners‚ engineers‚ consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services) seeks to create a model for how cities can develop carbon neutrally called Dongtan Eco-City. Dongtan is a plan for a new eco-city on the island of Chongming in Shanghai‚ China. The name of the city literally translates as "East Beach". Dongtan
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