PROJECT BRIEF 2013 Successful individuals and organisations do things better‚ smarter and more productively while reducing their everyday environmental impacts. To bring a global perspective to your learning in 2012 we will focus on sustainable practices in Norway and or Mongolia and compare the sustainable practices in those countries to Australian practices. Choose ONE (1) of the following topics and write NO MORE than 2000 words EXCLUDING in text referencing‚ bibliography and appendices
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1.1 What is Sustainability The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1987‚ in Gareis et al. 2010‚ p. 2) defines sustainability as the development that conforms to the needs of the present without making or willing to make concessions on the ability of future generations in order to meet their own wants and needs. In a different concept‚ sustainability has lately turned out to be a corporate yet societal concept (Gareis et al.‚ 2010). Corporate sustainability has different
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Personalized Nutrition And Exercise Plan **** SCI/241 05/12/11 Dr. Sherrie Lu Personalized Nutrition And Exercise Plan For as long as I can remember‚ I have always had some sort of struggle with my weight. When I was younger‚ I was a top ranked gymnast and it was extremely important for me to maintain a low‚ yet healthy weight. I managed to be successful with that for years up until the time that I got severely injured ultimately forcing me to quit competing. Upon quitting gymnastics‚ I
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Index Page Subtitle Pictures/ tables 2 What is pollution Pic 1 3-4 Water pollution Pic 2 5 Major water pollutants Table 20-1 6-7 Solutions Pic 3 8 Air pollution Pic4 Table 2 9 The green house effect Pic 4 10 Land pollution Pic 4 Pic 5 / table 3 11 Conclusion 12 References What is pollution? the contamination of air‚ water‚ or soil by substances that are harmful to living organisms. Pollution can occur naturally‚ for example through volcanic eruptions
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WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION? The most appropriate definition of environmental pollution would be the introduction of different harmful pollutants into certain environment that make this environment unhealthy to live in. The most common pollutants are usually chemicals‚ garbage‚ and waste water. Environmental pollution is happening in many parts of the world‚ especially in form of air and water pollution. The best example for air pollution are some of China ’s cities‚ including capital Beijing
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thinking of the topics like teenage pregnancy‚ this is not helping us as a country to be sustainable and developed as the resources are less than the population. My comment: “It’s all in the outcome - Consequentialism” – utilitarianism and the sustainability problem “We living in a failed world but I believe child poverty can be controllable. We can use the country’s resources to good use than investing in unnecessary things like child grants misused by parents to buy themselves the latest clothes
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POLLUTION The word‚ ’pollution’ means to make dirty. Pollution causes imbalance in the environment. Environmental pollution is a serious problem. Nearly 35 percent of India’s total land area is subject to serious environmental pollution. Industrialization has led to urbanization‚ which has added to the pollution problem. Air pollution is the most dangerous form of pollution. land and water pollution have worsened the situation. Pollution causes several types of harmful disease so we must control
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Waste management 1. What are the health problems due to air pollution 2. What are the effects on health due to water pollution 3. Describe Minamata disease 4. What are the main diseases caused by pesticides 5. What was the main reason for the disappearance of the Indian vulture 6. Describe biomagnifications 7. Why do we need waste management 8. What is wet scrubber method? 9. What are the three types of radio active waste. Where are they generated 10. Distinguish
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Ways To Reduce The Effects of Pollution Nowadays‚ pollution has become a major issue that concerns all countries worldwide. Majority of the pollution are results of the selfish behaviour of humans. There are many types of pollutions‚ examples are water pollution and air pollution. Each of this pollution can be dealt with different methods depending on the source of the error. In general‚ both air and water pollution can be reduced by utilizing the modern technology that humans have developed
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development‚ a number of legislation and policies in the field of planning have been enacted; the National Environmental Policy(2002) ‚ the Planning and Development Act(PDA‚ 2004) the National Development Strategy (NDS) and the National physical Development Plan. Mauritius has been ranked 62nd out of 99 coastal tourism destinations in a recent evaluation by the National Geographic Society. The overall view of the organisation is that “the cultural‚ biological‚ and geological diversity of this semi-submerged
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