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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sand? Do you ever think that something should be done about this? Plastic pollution is something that’s hurting the environment and is growing more and more every year. Plastic pollution is caused by people using the ocean as a trash can. People are careless and would rather litter than throw the pastic bag away or recycle it. Convinenece to people is better for them than the environment. Throughout the years the pollution has gotten worse. In the last few years like in 2008‚ global plastic consumptin
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Humanities – 12 marker – Marine Pollution. Marine Ecosystem - the sea. Pollution – When harmful substances make the air‚ land or water dirty. Pollutant – A harmful substance that causes pollution‚ such as exhaust fumes. There are many different causes of marine pollution. I am going to analyse all the different ways in which marine pollution happens‚ and the effects that this has on the environment‚ and if there are any solutions. People exploit the sea in a number of ways‚ such as for leisure
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Environment protection Agency shows that every nearly 40‚000 children in India are affected by respiratory diseases caused by the growth of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Air pollutants are continually poisoning our bones and the most susceptible to pollution are children below five years and elderly persons above 50 years. In general‚ those who have hyper-responsiveness to the presence of pollutants are bit harder than others. Air pollutants increase the risk of lung disease in asthma patients. Women
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Air pollution is one of the virtual problem nowadays. There are many reasons of it but mostly it is caused by cars‚ growing cities‚ development of economy and industrialization. Clean air consist of several gases. When some other gases or dangerous elements get into the clean air‚ pollution is inevitable. Ozone layer is affected too much by pollution and it will cause serious disturbances on the environment. People are the main cause of pollution because the things that we use contain dangerous
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and ecosystem. The major environmental issues that are facing the world today are pollution‚ overpopulation‚ and global warming. One of the biggest problems facing the world today is pollution. Pollution is a serious issue affecting our planet today. Many people are responsible for it. They do not know the rules and regulations of keeping our environment free from pollution. Our environment is polluted in three ways: air pollution‚ water pollution‚ and sound pollution. First of all‚ air is polluted
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Environmental Pollution 1.1 INTRODUCTION Amongst the developing countries‚ India is the foremost nation to take note of degradation of environment. In 1972‚ in the world environmental conference held at Stockholm‚ our government declared that it is their responsibility to control pollution in India. Even during recent global conference held at Kyoto in Japan‚ India accepted the responsibility of reducing global warming and depletion of ozone layer by banning the use
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Water Pollution Water pollution is the contamination of bodies of water such as ponds‚ lakes‚ oceans‚ rivers and even groundwater. Water pollution is mainly caused by many human activities‚ which can be harmful to animals and plants which live in these bodies of water are located. Nature also takes its toll on water pollution such as volcanoes‚ severe storms‚ and earthquakes also cause major changes in the quality of water. Water is typically considered to be polluted when it’s impaired
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AIR POLLUTION VERLINDA SIMS EVEREST UNIVERSITY ONLINE EVS1001_12 AIR POLLUTION Air pollution has a lot of different effects on plants‚ animals and also humans. The different air pollutions types come from a various amount of different sources in a way to clean up air pollution and it is not easy. We all know that this problem takes time‚ but all the contributions to improve the air we breathe brings us closer to cleaner air. Sulfur dioxide- is emitted by burning fossil fuels like coal and
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Assignment 6 3 Environmental issues in my Introduction Statement 1.Water pollution and the reduction of that resource is of great concern. I believe this is one of the most important issues because it affects every living thing. We dump many contaminants into our water. I know I could do better on reducing the water I use. 2. Air pollution is another major problem. This also affects everything that is living. It can cause numerous health issues. 3.Light pollution would be my third choice
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