Case Study: Health effects of traffic-related air pollution in a small community This case study is about the The Environmental and Occupational Health team providing scientific and technical advice and support to the health care system and the Government of Ontario. This was published originally in April‚ 2014. This was selected as a case study because it covered the ubiquity of traffic related air pollution as an environmental health issue. The members of the team/community voiced the concerns
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Noise Pollution When unwanted sound created by human beings hits our ears and disturbs the environment‚ noise pollution is created. Chiefly‚ noise pollution comes from barking dogs‚ loud music‚ vehicles‚ aircraft and rail transport‚ air-conditioners‚ factories‚ amplified music and construction work.Noise‚ by definition‚ is unwanted sound. What is pleasant to some ears may be extremely unpleasant to others‚ depending on a number of factors. The natural environment contains many sources of noise -
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+ 11 December 2013 SOCIO-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS FIELD VISIT: SAROD + Site Facts: Sarod‚ Jambusar Taluka‚ Bharuch District The region is part of the area popularly known as ‘Vegetable Basket of India’ a + Vadodora Enviro Channel Limited • Project for safe disposal of treated waste water developed by GIDC on behalf of participating industries. • Effluent Channel Project (ECP) with capacity of 1‚30‚000M3/day • Distance of 55km‚ ‘U’ shaped channel
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Causes and Effects of Air Pollution in the Environment Air pollution is the unwanted change in quality of the earth’satmosphere caused by the emission of gases and of particulates‚ which are small particles‚ which are small particles of solid matter or droplets of liquid. Polluted air adversely affects the health of human beings‚ animals‚ and plants; it soils damages building and other property; and its reduces visibility endangering travel by air and on the ground.
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H A B I T A T INTL. Vol. 19‚ No. 3‚ pp. 279-292‚ 1995 Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain 0197-3975/95 $9.50 + 0.00 0197-3975(94)00071-9 Sustainable Development and the Construction Industry* ROBIN SPENCE and HELEN MULLIGANt Cambridge University‚ UK and tCambridge Architectural Research Limited‚ UK ABSTRACT The construction industry‚ together with the materials industries which support it‚ is one of the major global exploiters of natural resources‚ both physical
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Light Pollution 1. Every urbanite knows the bright lights of the city make it impossible to see the stars in a night sky. What most of us do not know is that those lights also may be making us sick. The cause is light pollution – the unearthly glow of billions of street lamps‚ security and porch lights‚ searchlights‚ office lights and signs – as people everywhere try to dispel the darkness of the night. 2. For the first time‚ light is being investigated seriously as a pollutant and a health hazard
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economic super power‚ which already has an enormous environmental footprint. a. Research the impact of fossil fuels emission from motor vehicles on human health. Summarize your findings. Fossil fuel emission from motor vehicles as an outdoor air pollution produces pollutants in the air which leads to negative impacts on human health. (Climate Change and Health‚ 2010). These pollutants mainly include carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The toxic pollutant nitrogen dioxide is ejected in
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EFFECTS OF POLLUTION ON THE ENVIRONMENT What is environmental pollution ? Nature maintains a balance in the environment and any kind of imbalance therein is called environmental pollution. Man’s quest to conquer the universe with technological development has resulted in grave dangers to the very existence of life on this planet. Waters are no longer clean‚ fishes are rotting on sea-shores‚ trees are withering‚ cities are choked with foul air and toxic chemicals are finding their way into our food
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Environmental Pollution at Hindustan Lever’s Kodaikanal Plant In mid-2004‚ Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) executives looked back at the events of the past three years at their mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. After mercury leakage from the plant had been reported in March 2001‚ heavy expenditure had been incurred in environmental risk assessment‚ waste disposal and health monitoring. The expenditure had exceeded the total profits generated by the plant
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Jon Rueff ENG 112 Bolden 3/4/10 Why is our Pollution Bad? When we watched An Inconvenient Truth several weeks ago there was a lot of pinpointing factors that came to mind that I didn’t truly understand. When I saw all of the charts of how high global warming is increasing‚ it really took a second for me to realize how much damage we’re causing to this environment. One point Al Gore made was the amount of travel tourists do in a single year‚ and how it is effecting our global
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