Essays on Ecology

The amount of clothing brands is increasing worldwide. Today the fashion industry produces more clothes than in the entire previous history. Such changes are partly caused by the development of technologies. The article “The Power of Buying Less by Buying Better” by Elizabeth Cline is devoted to changing trends in the global fashion industry. The phenomenon “fast fashion” gains the increasing popularity all over the world. And today most clothing designers are focused on how to produce more, but with less quality. The situation in the fashion industry has changed due to the occurrence of alternative offer. In contrast ...

Introduction

The purpose of this project is to outline a framework to ensure the sustainability of UK aircraft carrier. It outlines some of the challenges that face the industry. Additionally, it presents a framework which can be used to address these challenges. The project also highlights a measurement regime which can be used to assess the proposed framework. Mainstream media have repetitively documented the impact of seaway transport and their eco-efficiency concerning a sustainable future. By minimizing operation and manufacturing impacts, airbus aims at optimizing their services and product towards an eco-efficient technology to minimize their environmental impact. Throughout the ...

Herbicides play a significant role in ensuring healthy growth of plants. In Canada, approximately seventy herbicides are utilized in the forestry sector. They have been used since the nineteen forties. The herbicides assisted in rapid clearance of weeds leading to increased production in the forest sector. However, utilization of these herbicides has adverse effects on wildlife and environment. It is essential to ensure these effects are minimized. This paper gives a summary on the utilization of glyphosate herbicide (Vision). Additionally, it discusses various adverse effects resulting in its utilization. It also provides an examination of the benefits of herbicide ...

Introduction to Business and Society-Persuasive Essay

Introduction In his book titled The Short Story of Progress, Ronald Wright analyzes civilizations that have witnessed rapid growth and supremacy. He also elucidates the fatal fall of many such civilizations and enjoins that over-exploiting the environment can lead to ecological catastrophe. By finding answers to questions relating to human origins, reasons for existence and destination of the progress pursuit, Wright warns the society from traversing through progress traps, created by humans themselves, blinded by a short term urge to modernize. “We can go to understand the reckless aspects of human nature and circumvent the danger of arrogant self-destruction, ...

Abstract

The ecological settings in an ecosystem change from time to time. The changes in the ecological settings are brought about by a plethora of factors. Through evolution, the organisms that live in the ecosystem also change to adapt to the aforementioned ecological changes. The adaptation of the organisms to the ecological changes yields variations because different organisms and even organisms of the same species are exposed to the elements to different levels. Man has a significant role to play in the ecological changes. Through his economic activities, the effect on ecosystems has been both positive and negative. Urbanization as ...

Karen and Arjun understand that political ecology studies the complex relationships that exist between political, economic and social factors which influence environmental issues and changes. Therefore, political ecology majorly politicizes environmental issues and phenomena to bring about the aspect of costing and its benefits and how these affect environmental changes distribution. This field as received numerous contributions from various scholars who believe that the accumulation of resources or wealth is generally influenced by the interplay of economic exchanges and their implication on the environment. According to Karen Bakker in “Golden Road to Riches” she believes that the economic geography ...

Rising sea temperatures

Rising sea temperatures are disturbing the ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef, and if it continues, it will cause major disturbances in the coastal region. Temperature regulates the distribution and the variety of the marine life species, and it also maintains the growth of the coral reef. Over the years, these have grown and evolved with time. When a certain limit of the temperature is exceeded, it can cause the tiny algae inside to be expelled out which causes the coloration of the corals to change. The corals die because of this as they suffer from a lack of ...

Sustainable Built Environment

Introduction It seems that building development would present an impressive opportunity to reduce energy demand and also reduce carbon emissions effectively with combining current knowledge and expertise (Diakaki, & Kolokotsa, 2009). The highest cost-effectively feasible mitigation prospective is recommended to be found within the residential as well as the commercial sector. This is suggested to be producing a reduction of 29% in respect to the probable emission baseline for the year 2020. Life Cycle Assessment is also known as (LCA) is a technique for evaluating environmental pack of processes as well as products in their life cycle. It attempts to ...

Business Audit: Coca Cola

Business Audit: Coca Cola

Executive Summary

This report takes a look at the business audit of the Coca-Cola Company. After introducing the audit, a brief background of the company is given. This is followed by a macro-analysis of the company. This analysis deals with the management tool i.e. PESTLE which details Coca Cola’s political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental analysis. This is followed by a micro-analysis i.e. the financial data relating to Coca Cola. The competitor analysis of the company is next in line. This includes the strategic groups in Coca Cola’s line of business. A perceptual mapping ...

Marine trophic cascade is an ecological concept that has attracted a lot of attention in the recent days owing to the increase in overexploitation of marine resources. It is paramount that we gain clear understanding of the impacts brought about by the changes in the food web. Other possible causes include the environmental changes brought about by the climatic changes such as the global warming effects. Recent studies have shown an increase in the overexploitation of the marine top predators that has the potential to initiate a marine trophic cascade. Various scholars have studied the subject and accumulated reports ...

Today, almost all organizations are emphasizing on social responsibility and this has become among the major factors in securing a competitive edge. Companies strive at achieving a balance between the economy and the ecosystem in order to kill the perception that firms are only after maximizing profits and Whole food industry is no different. Social responsibility is good for the business of this American supermarket chain and this paper endears to discuss this statement in fine details.

Alignment with its Vision and Mission

Whole Food business has developed a vision on sustainability which stresses in creating a future that underscores the value of creativity, individual ...

Deepwater Horizon

Synopsis The Deepwater Horizon was an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico owned by Transocean, a U.S owned company that specializes in deep water drilling equipment (Ingersoll, Locke, & Reavis, 2012). The $560 million rig was operated by a crew of 126 people (Ingersoll et al., 2012) roughly 45 miles off the Louisiana coast (Mullins, 2010). On April 20, 2010, the exploratory Macondo well experienced an explosion that not only created one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in U.S. history but killed 11 people (Barstow, Rohde & Saul, 2010). The environmental effects were devastating. It took 87 days ...

The clothing industry is a sector that has drawn the attention of millions of investors across the world. The industry is very competitive, most people give in to the pressure and concentrate on other lines of business. To keep up with the pace. However, one has to be all around regarding the right prices, producing unique and environmentally friendly products, and using the right marketing channels. One such company that has managed to create sustainable products. The renowned Swedish fashion company H&M in recent times became the leading corporation in the fashion industry to issue a comprehensive report of ...

Abstract

In response to the stiff competition being experienced in virtually all industries, one of the strategies that organizations can execute to boost their competitive advantage is promoting diversity in the workplace. This paper examines some of the ways firms can ensure equal employment as required by the relevant federal government agencies discussed in, “Providing Equal Employment Opportunity and Safe Workplace,” which is the third chapter of the book, Fundamentals of Human Resources Management, by Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, and Wright (2013). It also relates the issues addressed in the chapter to the article, “Workplace Diversity: A Social-Ecological Framework and Policy ...

The selected driver for this paper is the climate change. It is a well-known fact that climate change is considered as the increase in the average temperatures of Earth. An awe-inspiring methodical consensus upholds that climate change is occurring due to the fact that people are using fossil fuels that emit hazardous gasses in the environment. In this concern, the paper will discuss how communication and other significant factors can play a vital role for land managers to persuade people about the social values regarding climate change. People mostly want and even expect a lot from the natural resource ...

The article is impressive in the manner it discusses issues regarding the challenges that people face in their bid to achieve social justice. It is particularly remarkable given that it exposes a contemporary society that is geared towards prosperity by all means possible while disregarding equally important conservative principles. The aspect of fighting for social justice is apparent when the author observes how the Buddhists embarked on a mission to address a local problem of deforestation and destruction of the ecosystem after realizing how harmful the trend was to the community. From the article, the use of religion by ...

Summary Of Proposed Research

Global drought not only affects the world agriculture and economics, but interactively affects the phenotypic trait of plants across a different diversity gradient. Nevertheless, plants are able to adapt themselves to the drought environment by changing their phenotypic trait. From previous research at Jena Drought Experiment, in Germany, the results show that diversity not only has the capability to increase community’s resistance to drought, but also to increase community’s recovery ability after drought. On the other hand, the results show that the drought environment makes a strong selection on both, the plant phylogeny and functional trait. Yet, ...

The usual criticism we encounter when adopting sustainable practices is that it does not promote growth. It is well known that nature has its limits and it will sustain only when people adopt a growth strategy that is environmental or nature-friendly. However, fiscal interest is often compromised while choosing eco-friendly measures. While this has always been the criticism with sustainability, currently we have a different type of criticism and that is the politicization of sustainability. According to this, sustainability regulates life and steals freedom. The increasing political pressure on choosing sustainability has caused many countries to withdraw their membership ...

Effectiveness of the Ways Hospitality Businesses practice Sustainability

The hospitality businesses use different strategies to be sustainable and achieve numerous benefits that identify the effectiveness of those strategies. It can be ascertained by the example of Greek eco-friendly hotels. They focused on the sustainability by initiating the energy saving programs and reduction in solid waste. In turn, the hotels not only saved money but also experienced reduction in satisfaction in level of operating costs and increase in reservations. Furthermore, green programs led to upgrading of environment and society. The benefits gained by the hotels indicate the effectiveness of the strategies (Kapiki, 2012). Bruns-Smith, Choy, Chong and Verma ( ...

The Autobiography of a Forest Monk is a life’s tale of the Venerable Ajahn Tate who has described his life and journey as he embarked on his journey in the Thai Forest Tradition. To leave behind a busy life in the towns and villages and move toward the forest in order to claim some peace and quiet however the same lifestyle was accompanied by a lack of worldly necessities such as money and being patient when necessities grew scarce. Ajahn Tate grew from a humble background, and his predecessors had seen hardships and struggled in life before him. ...

An eco map, also referred to as an eco graph, is a diagrammatic representation of an individual’s personal and social relationships with his/her environment (Bennett, 2011). The eco map was developed by Dr. Ann Hartman in 1975, and it documents the interaction of people, their families, and the external environment. An eco map enables one to not only see the connection, but to also visualize the quality of the interaction between people and their environments. Words such as “positive and nurturing” and “negative and wrought with stress” are used to describe the relationships between families and their external ...

a) Elements of Ecology In “Kampung Boy”, the author has portrayed an intrinsic biography of a Muslim boy born in Kampong in Perak. How the young boy grows up in rural Malaysia is explained in a vivid fashion, from which the reader is able to draw various inferences on ecological factors and their influence on childhood. The Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model analyses the child development paradigm in a framework of simple yet meaningful relationships with environment. The essay focuses on how these elements have been embedded in the childhood of the Kampung Boy.

The Microsystem

Urie Bronfenbrenner has identified microsystem ...

Obstacle to Sustainable Development

It is proved that in places where people litter, take the environment for granted and where people do not appreciate natural resources, the atmosphere is not at all happy ((Blakely, Haley and Woodward). In 2014, the United Nations on the basis of three indicators such as life expectancy of citizens, availability of education and standard of living (poverty or affluence), calculated the index of human development in 190 countries around the world. It is not necessary to prove that the index of human development greatly depends on the ecology of the environment - in other words, to prove that ...

Reading the article “Scope of Practice in Nutrition and Dietetics” by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics helped me to become more aware of the scope and of practice in nutrition and dietetics such as a registered dialectician’s scope of practice. Additionally, it helped me learn how a dietitian can be a leader and offer safe, culturally relevant and quality food service. The article also helped me to reflect on my personal knowledge which I have received at UD over the years. By reading the article, I also became aware of my weaknesses and how I can improve ...

The environment changes constantly. As the surrounding changes, so does the essence of becoming aware of the challenges surrounding it. With the influx of global warming, variations in weather patterns, natural disasters, cooling periods, amongst others, people need to understand the environmental problems that the earth is facing. The Greenpeace Organization is at the forefront of circulating the information and knowledge regarding ecological issues. The organization is leading a campaign that will utilize peaceful protests to creatively communicate and expose the international environmental challenges and develop solutions for a peaceful and green future. This essay examines their campaigns that ...

Megan Ybarra and Paul Greenough examines the politics of ecology management in different academic works. The two works have similarities and contradictions between them, with some of the arguments rhyming with the popular beliefs while others are contradictory. In the article titled Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest appearing on the Series called In Search of The Rain Forest, Mr Greenough examines different hypotheses on conservation and the relationship between the wildlife and human beings which he refers to as “bio-ironies”). The first bio-irony discussed is that the modern exercise of conservation banishes conventional inhabitants of the forest only to ...

Identifying Risks

The Hong Kong International Airport is connected to over 100 destinations through over one thousand daily flight by over 100 airlines. In order to fulfill the future demand until 2030, the Airport Authority of Hong Kong (AAHK) planned for the expansion of HKIA into a three- runway system to provide support to the present runways through the introduction of the Master Plan 2030. The 2030 Master Plan of HKIA has two alternatives in its considerations. The preparation of the master plan ensures that there is transparent, unbiased process of planning and professionalism. Consequently, the Airport Authority of Hong Kong ( ...

Literature on the effect of environmental stress caused by changes in the climate is more relevant today than it has been before, especially in the context of global warming (Beniston 2010). Schulte (2014) and Somero (2010) published articles on environmental stress and climate change respectively. Reading the two articles offers an understanding of how the two variables are interrelated and the effect that they have on living organisms. The manner in which the arguments are constructed presents with various positives and negatives. This critique will highlight the positives and negatives with the help of literature from other scholars. Schulte ( ...

12 Questions 1 - Environmental law is the set of laws and treaties which governs the limits to which the human actions affects the environment around us. We need environmental law because without it the worsening situation of our earth cannot be controlled and the state of our environment will worsen even more than the current state. Environmental lawyers are needed to uphold the environmental laws so that the prosecutors can be brought in front of the law and served the rightful justice. 2 - The environmental law was first formed in the year 1970. The section which is ...

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Summary Report 1

What factors contributed to the problem? Volcanic activity is a major contributing factor to the issue of climate change. The eruption of volcanoes leads to the release of large quantities of water vapor, ash, dust, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. In the atmosphere, these sulfur dioxide molecules will react with water vapor leading to the formation of sulfuric acid, which is then spread all over the world through winds. The sulfuric acid formed in the atmosphere can significantly affect the amount of solar radiation entering the Earth’s surface and thereby the ...

Introduction

Every parent envisions a future where their children and grandchildren live in a rich and resourceful environment that essentially provides them with everything that they need to survive. However, what if parents were informed of a pending doom where their children will live in an extremely toxic environment where there aren't enough basic resources such as fresh drinking water or where the climate is comprised of harsh conditions that threaten their lives on a daily basis? What if they were informed that by the time their children are adults, a diverse range of the existing species of animals will ...

Defining the Coastal Environments in Tourism Industry

Tourism is one of rapidly developing industries in the global scales. Additional emphasis in this case should be put on the marine and coastal tourism - as two of the most popular options for spending the time and relaxation (Hewawasam, 2002, p. 2). At the same time, even while, taking into account general awareness among the scholars., pertaining to importance of tourism both in environmental and economic contexts, insignificant attention is paid by them to these two contexts of tourism (Sunlu, 2003, p. 263-270) The core need for additional attention to this sector is caused by insignificant understanding of ...

Abstract

The most crucial goal that has been targeted in all research studies in the past few years has been toward prevention of problems. The scientific method is a stringent and proven procedure, which can be used to determine the most probable evidence to back up an environmental phenomenon. The proposition is usually made in a cause-and-effect phenomenon. Such a proposition is known as a ‘hypothesis’. The method used for testing the hypothesis is termed ‘experimentation’. This procedure is comprised of five elementary and significant steps. The most salient aspect that renders the scientific methods most popular is the fact ...

An ecosystem shapes the kind of species of animals and plants that lives within it in some ways. For instance, a Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem is one perfect example of an ecosystem inhabited by various kinds of animals and plants (Ewers et al., 2015). In particular, the tropical rainforest ecosystem is in the tropical regions of the globe mostly associated with warm and at times hot climate. Animals that are adaptive to this climate and as well as adaptive plants and vegetation characterize the ecosystem (Gagic et al., 2015). The tropical rainforest ecosystem has influenced the environment in some ways. ...

Introduction

The Aral Sea is located in Central Asia and was the fourth largest saline lake in the world containing 10grams of salt per liter before its water supply was interrupted (Rama, 2002). In 1960, the Soviet government undertook a diversion project for the rivers that fed the sea. This was an attempt to irrigate the desert region surrounding the sea to support agricultural activities. This led to the transformation of the desert into cotton farms among other forms of farms. Diversion of the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya rivers led to environmental, social, and economic effects felt by ...

Introduction

The increasing use of electronic devices like mobiles and laptop has necessitated the constant supply of power. A power bank is increasingly becoming a ‘must have’ for people on the move. Kazam Mobile, the startup mobile company has come up with its Kazam Power Bank (KPB) which can power the batteries in use in mobiles and laptops. This report starts with the corporate objectives of Kazam. This is followed by a market overview of the power bank market in the UK. An internal and external audit of the market would be presented thereafter. The assumptions for the power bank ...

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine and evaluate the sustainable event management of the Montreux Jazz Company. Conversely, the paper aims at giving a prompt and deceive report on the corporate social responsibility in line with the Montreux Jazz Company. The analysis raise the relevant questions on whether the event examined and evaluated is viable and sustainable using the government policy and the existing theoretical concepts. Furthermore, the analysis is examined using deceive concept on the design and methodology so as to come up with a critical discourse in the line with sustainable event management. The selection ...

Introduction p. 3

Significance p. 4 Trend Drivers and Patterns p. 5 Impact on the Hospitality Industry p. 7 Subway: A Case Study p. 7 Impact on Future Professional Development p. 9 Conclusion p. 10 References p. 11 Chemicals in the food chain and the relevance to the hospitality industry. 1.0 Introduction: In the past, the process of a food chain was simple; foods were eaten as they were produces due to lack of preservation techniques. While it was considered to be important, food was categorized as just a commodity (Gauther, 2012). As industrialization increased, farmers became more distant from consumers and ...

Reflection Paper

Holmes Rolston III: Pages 158-222 (Chapter 6 & 7) Rolston, in A New Environmental Ethics, provides a clear illustration that ethics needs to be ambitious in depth and breadth, practical and theoretical of its critique on traditional thinking methods yet connected and grounded to practical inquiries of wilderness protection, animal welfare, climate change and ecological restoration. Rolston provides a substantial difference between anthropocentrism as well as non-anthropocentrism. He defends, unapologetically the values of non-human animals and plants as well as other non-sentient life forms, ecosystems, species and the whole earth. He is forthright of his technique and the predicament of ...

The design and goals of management policies are primarily influenced by the fisheries and marine ecosystems health mental concepts. The Cognitive Maps: Cartography and Concepts for an Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Policy article, discusses how these mental concepts that are held by some individuals are fostered by the approach of Back to the Future (BTF) to the policy of fisheries (Tony & Nigel 1976). Such cognitive maps are normally obtained from local and traditional knowledge and the interplay of science. The approach of Back to the Future action employs all the sectors in remedial and positive and is meant to engage the ...

The Ritz Carlton Hotels & Resorts partners with Sea Turtles 911

for the Conservation of Sea Turtles

Introduction

After conducting an analysis and assessment of corresponding scientific literature and recent updates in the news, it is possible to make a statement that the concern of sustainability and environmental protection is a rather urgent one on the international scales. At the same time, insignificant attention has been paid to the effect, made by the planned events on both built and natural environment. For instance, such events usually involve creation of the new infrastructure in the locations, which may be referred as environmentally-sensitive ones. In such cases, there is a need of transporting ...

Sustainability Report: FIA Formula E Hong Kong

Introduction In the modern business world, the issue of sustainability has been a major concern owing to the increased need to ensure environmental conservation. This has been amidst the need to lower costs for the purpose of improving profit and meetings the varying needs of different stakeholders in the business. Moreover, individuals, business organizations, and governments have continually prioritized the economic, social and environmental sustainability of business over any other business goals (Sebastian, 2015). Notably, sustainability has gained importance in the wake of various economic and ecological challenges. Traditionally, corporations around the world have merely been legal entities and ...

Analysis of Sustainability of Tomorrowland Event

Analysis of Sustainability of Tomorrowland Event

Introduction and Context

The focus of this report is about sustainable event management. It aims to look at a major event and the sustainability policy of that event. The report briefly analyses the policy versus its actual implementation in real-life. The report reviews the earlier literature about sustainable event management. It examines the various theories related to corporate social responsibility and ISO 20121, which is the international standard for sustainable event management. The report then relates the findings at the present event to the sustainability theory. The report then presents the conclusions.

Tomorrowland is an electronic ...

Introduction

Mega-Events such as the World Cups and Olympics are so huge that it requires almost creating a temporary city for the massive event, with power, toilets, waste, water, and transport, among a host of other things. Such an event is inherently environmentally unsustainable, as it produces masses of waste and consumes unnecessary resources. While having no event is the most environmentally friendly event, there are many reasons countries hold why mega-events. However, it is beyond a doubt that those conducting the event have a social and environmental responsibility to reduce their impacts. This is true for all events, whether ...

Introduction

Are humans threatening the survival of our planet by disrupting the ecosystem? Marvin Gaye and the public believed this to be the case in the 1960’s and 1970’s when the modern Green Movement first began. Gaye sang “Poison is in the wind that blows from the north and south and east. Radiation underground and in the sky, animals and birds live near by all die. What about this crowded land, how much more abuse from man can we stand?” . Greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, ocean poisoning, topsoil depletion, food chain poisoning, acid rain, pollution along with demands ...

Introduction

Arabella Nuts and Confectionery is one of the UK’s finest confectionery, nuts and dried fruits company. The company produces a variety of Mediterranean, Middle East, and other international tastes. Arabella has been in existence for more than 20 years in which it has been serving exclusive and top-end stores and hotels in the UK (Arabella Nuts and Confectionery, 2017). The company operates majorly through its online channel. However, it also has physical shops within the Westfield Shopping Centers at both London Shepherd’s Bush and Stratford City. In light of this brief background of Arabella Nuts and Confectionery, ...

According to Berger (1977), editorials are articles written to reflect the opinions of the newspaper and the majority stakeholders of the newspaper. Rocco & Hatcher (2011), therefore, provided the guidelines for this essay.

Editorial for The Voice of Enterprise: What the Critics Won’t Tell You

We at The Voice of enterprise support the government’s pipeline project that will not only go a long way in meeting the country’s petroleum needs but also generate additional revenue through export of the surplus oil and natural gasses. The government is proposing to construct a 2000 km crude oil pipeline that will traverse from the mines in the remote frontier through the largely uninhabited ...

Ecological footprint refers to the impact of a person’s lifestyle or that of a community on the environment, which is expressed in terms of the amount of land necessary to sustain their natural resources use (Rosenberg, 1997). My results were 6.71, which means I need to reduce my ecological footprint even further with the right lifestyle choices. I realized that our lifestyles harm our environment more than we realize. The basic actions in our daily lives such as driving to school or eating meat have an adverse effect on the environment. If everyone had a similar lifestyle as ...

Introduction

Samsung is a multinational Electronics company that has existed in the market for the last 70 years. It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with regional conglomerates across the world. This company is involved in diverse business operations spanning from the manufacture and supply of semiconductors, digital media, mobile products, consumer electronics, wireless wearable, home appliances and industrial appliances. In 2009, Samsung Electronics Inc. was touted as the world’s largest corporation based on revenues and a market leader in the electronics industry. On top of being the world’s largest semiconductor chip producer, it is also, the world’ ...

INTRODUCTION

Tourism and hospitality have formed one of the world's fast growing industry and expanding at a rapid pace. It is an appealing industry that positively contributed to economic growth of developing and developed countries. The hospitality industry remains the intensive key resource of tourism, hotel such as Waldorf Astoria Beijing takes up the corporate responsibility to balance the social, economic and sustainability needs of their business as well as the communities. This hotel has been awarded Traveler's Choice Awards: - Trip Advisor in 2013 (Waldorf Astoria 2016). If these hospitality industries do not support tourism then a negative impact ...

Introduction

Environmental concerns have created significant interests from various stakeholders with criminologists playing a critical role in responding to environmental harms. Environmental criminology applies to wide range of environments comprising of air, water, and land, and major issues such as overexploitation of natural resources and the emission of high volumes of toxic wastes in air, water, and soil. Multidisciplinary approaches have been adopted to help in curbing such environmental crimes whereby ecological, legal, economic, and social implications of the crimes have been analyzed by various stakeholders. Interventions have also led to extensive methods including monitoring, assessing the damage, enforcing legal ...

Voluntary Simplicity Meets Modern Consumerism

INTRODUCTION When people look at the modern world today the first thing they recognize is the evidence of humanity’s development of the world, how they harvested the needed environment for energy and rejoice in the modern technological advances that allow for a fantastic amount of convenience to many people’s everyday lives. However, many of these same human beings fail to consider the consequences, on many levels, that all of these developments and advances may lead to. Many argue that these advances and conveniences have led to an unhealthy kind of consumerism; ideologies that place a great deal ...

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to investigate the substantial effect that invasive species such as the dreissenid mussel, popularly known as quagga and zebra mussel have on the ecosystem of freshwater water Lake called Great Lakes with the potential impacts and how it can alter their ecosystem.

Introduction

Quagga and zebra mussels started thriving Great Lakes of North America in the mid-1980s being introduced into the lake by ballast ship. They are a minute bivalve and indigenous to the Caspian Sea section. After a short while, the population exploded invading the water bodies including its drainage systems and other ...

It is redundant to acknowledge what a crucial role technology plays in our lives today. Over the last century, such scientist as Gerhard Lenski, Leslie White and Alvin Toffler introduced their theories trying to break down the issue into smaller pieces and offered their view on the evolution of the technologies, the reasons that stand behind and perspectives for the future. Gerhard Lenski was a scientist that produced one of the theories about the types of societies that can be defined by their technologies. He was a true believer that technology is the main force that drives change and ...

Introduction

Climate change is a major environmental problem, causing concern to various corners of our ecosystem. It is a result of global warming, environmental pollution and inefficient use of our natural resources. Climate change has affected almost all living organisms, including plants, animals, microorganisms and undoubtedly, man. It poses a serious threat to our ecosystem and is listed as a major concern in the Grand Challenges of the U.N. for Millennium Development and Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Garrett 490). A wide variety of its implications, have made climate change, an important topic for researchers. There has been more awareness among researchers ...

DNA in Forensic Science

Forensic Science deals with investigations of suspects or criminals in crime scenes legally. In most cases, there are usually a lot of people involved in crime scenes. Some of them being innocent while some are the criminals. Also, there may be one criminal involved in an incidence. In Forensic Science, DNA is used to differentiate the individuals so that the criminal among them can be known. Additionally, DNA analysis is performed in the paternity testing. It enables the determination of a parent or parents of a child. DNA analysis is now being regarded as scientific evidence ("Application of forensic ...

Like many other United States National Parks, Badlands is unique unto itself with physical attributes that when they are seen one knows it is Badlands National Park. Located in an area rich with history, the Badlands was created and founded as a national monument in 1939 by President Roosevelt before officially becoming a national park in 1978 (Steiner, 1993). The landscape of buttes, ravines, and hills found in the midst of the prairie of Southwestern South Dakota influenced the Lakota Sioux to call the area, ‘mako sica’ or ‘badlands’ (“South Dakota Legends,” 2003). The Sioux Pine Ridge reservation lies ...

Introduction

One of the largest areas of the world where pastoral nomadism and irrigating agriculture had been predominant throughout the history is Central Asia. There existed a set of aspects of geography and ecology of Central Asia that influenced the emergence of pastoral nomadism and irrigation agriculture in that territory. In this paper we will attempt to explore some of the causes and effects of pastoral nomadism and irrigating agriculture in Central Asia, taking into consideration its ecological and historic settings.

Ecological reasons

First of all, let’s speak about some of ecological reasons of the appearance of pastoral nomadism and irrigating ...

Introduction

If any organisation were to succeed in achieving its objectives and targets, it is at the mercy of the strategies that it develops for itself. A lack of strategy will tell on the manner the organisation works. Hence, the team employed to this effect should be efficient and have the required knowledge for the same. Plans should match what the company envisions for itself in the light of its finances and operations. Such plans work in the long run. The more changes occur in them, the more difficult it is for them to move ahead. Realistic yardsticks can be ...

Abstract

With the ever-growing population at one end and the deteriorating ecosystem at the other, people are questioning the efficiency of the two approaches to farming now more than ever. One approach is the organic cultivation while the other follows the conventional techniques. There seems to be a divide where a few people support one type of agriculture while the rest stand to the other side. In the midst of all of this debate and an unspoken war on which side has more valid arguments for implementation of their stance, the basic differences in between the two approaches end up ...