Essays on Ecosystem

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spirituality is explained differently by numerous scholars belonging to different epochs and periods. Some describe it as "the human response to God's gracious call to a relationship with himself “(Zinnbauer et al., 1997); nowadays there is a tendency to affiliate spirituality to individual phenomenon and define as “personal transcendence, supra-conscious sensitivity, and meaningfulness “(Zinnbauer et al., 1997). Mentioned definitions can be true, yet, what matters is the angle one looks at. This paper aims to tackle different associations and definitions of the term spirituality. Furthermore, it looks at the interconnection between the notions of scientism, postmodernism along with the ...

Tropical Rain Forests

They are located near wet tropical lowlands and uplands nearby the equator. A good example is the Amazon River rainforest found in Peru. The structure of the tropical rain forest can be described as full of ferns and shrubs and other plants that require less light. Tall trees forming canopies are common and hence the floor of the forest is dark and damp. It has many layers of decomposing animals and leaves. The biotic components include bamboo and rubber trees, lemurs, poison dart frogs, and anteaters. On the other hand, abiotic components comprise of water, light, rocks, and soil.

Function of the tropical rainforest

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[Business] A business ecosystem can be determined as an economic community where distributors, entities, suppliers and clients collaborate with each other. Business enterprises interact so that to upgrade their strength, support its stability and stimulate the manufacturing of goods and services. Wal-Mart’s ecosystem can be represented as a brilliant case of the business ecosystem. This system is very flexible, as vendors are informed about commodities which are constantly sold and those products which stuck on selling. This allows businesses to choose the correct strategy of manufacturing and allocating goods which will be lucrative for entrepreneurs. This is the ...

Introduction

In the past, humans practiced hunting and gathering as a way of finding food. They would hunt down animals for food and feed the different communities. Over time, as the human population grew. The growth in human population meant that there was an increased demand in food, thus leading to an increased number of animals to hunt down. It became impossible for the humans to solely depend on animals for food. Another result with the increased human population was increased demand for land. The humans turned to cutting down or burning vegetation. In the process, some animals were burnt ...

Introduction

An ecosystem is defined as the interaction of the organism and other nonliving factors in a certain community. The living components of an ecosystem, such as plants, animals, and other organisms, can be classified as the biotic component of the ecosystem, whereas the environmental conditions such as water amount, humidity, soil nourishment, temperature, and the like are termed as the abiotic factors. In an ecosystem, both the existing biotic and abiotic factors determine what kind of species live there. For example, turtles, which require a large amount of water to live in cannot possibly hope to survive in arid ...

Introduction

Cigarette collection systems comprise of the major ways that several companies including Tobacco manufacturing industries that help as one of the strategies in managing effect of cigarette butts in littering bins that is currently a big challenge in urban areas. According to Riutta, (2012), it is imperative to address this topic of issues concerning cigarette butts in our daily city lives because of the high negative impact they have on our environment, and thus health being one of the leading causes of preventable deaths. According to health analysts, cigarette butts are made from a fibrous material that is essential ...

INTRODUCTION

There was a time when the world was almost entirely covered by forests, marshes, mountains and rainforests however, as human societies became more and more industrialized and the population continued to grow more and more natural environments were cleared to accommodate housing needs of people, the grazing lands for animals, room for human industries, and the obtaining of natural energy resources, like coal and oil. This is a reality for many states in the United States. That being said there are many people who have never spent a single day surrounded by authentic nature. It was in the 1860s ...

Executive Summary

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a place-based way to utilization of natural resources with the aim of protecting and restoring the energy, flexibility and activity of the entire ecological environment to benefit its inhabitants. EBM is a great tool to preserve the environment in a better way that will not destroy the economy and humans. Movements of traditional environment have improved the ecosystem at the expense of economy, which has been viewed as a failure. People cannot continue repeating the same mistakes again. This is where EBM approach comes in where the ecosystem would be protected while at the same ...

Introduction

Climate change is among the significant factors impacting ecological diversity on a worldwide scale. The growth of industries and the increasing human population globally have resulted in a rise in the volume of greenhouse gasses, which scientists have argued are the greatest contributors to the menace. The Florida Keys is one of the ecological treasures of the U.S. that continues to be impacted negatively by climate change and anthropogenic activities. This ecological treasure, which is located at the tip of the state of Florida, comprises about 1,700 islands that stretch for more than 200 miles to the west ...

Each student will submit a 2500 words (including exhibits) Business Plan for their Simulation Company.  Use Times Roman 11 font, 1 inch margins, double spaced.  The business plan should provide the Board a report on your strategic decisions, with an account of your performance state, and your plan for the future.  Specifics of your decisions over various quarters, assessment of those decisions, and how you stand vis-à-vis competition should be included.  Use the following headings and subheadings to organize your Business Plan:

            2) Strategy of the Firm – SWOT, STEEP and Competitor Analysis             3) Analysis of current situation and ...

Introduction

In spite of the contribution of urbanization to the economic growth in Zhejiang, its adverse effects far much outweigh the positives since sustainability of the ecosystem and the society is at stake. Environmental concerns, particularly air pollution, are real threats to the ecosystem since they lead to increased atmospheric temperatures which in turn result in climate changes. Urbanization contributes to pollution through higher energy consumption and motorization that have resulted in higher volumes of greenhouse gasses emitted in the air. The shrinking of natural resources is another consequence of urbanization where there is the rampant destruction of natural habitats, ...

Grizzly bear is a subspecies of a brown bear, which can be found in Alaska and Western Canada. Isolated populations of grizzly bears can also be found in northern Idaho, western Montana, in north-western Wyoming and North Cascade Mountains (Washington State). In all ecosystems in which grizzly bears live, they play an important role and significantly affect their functioning. Due to being omnivorous, these bears are included in the food chain at various levels. Despite the fact that the diet of this species is dominated by vegetable food, grizzly bears are the largest land predators in the territories where ...

Introduction

Until recently, genetic foods have become popular for their ability to address many production and quality issues faced by natural/organic farming methods. Genetically modified crops are those whose genetic makeup has been improved to enhance the level of nutrients, resistance to diseases, increase yields, adaptability to climatic factors, and reduce the time of production (Ronald & Adamchak, 2008). It is different from the conventional breeding because genetic modification allows introduction of genes from any organism (animal and plants) in altering crops whereas breeding allows transfer of genes across related species only. On the other hand, organic farming is a natural ...

Introduction

Urbanization in Zhejiang province has greatly contributed to pollution, putting the increasing population at risk of severe health problems if early interventions are not sought. With the rising number of factories in the province coupled with the fact that many people are moving into East China in search of employment, it means that in the long run, the consequences of industrial pollution will interfere with environmental sustainability. Several questions arise regarding urbanization regarding negative consequences and the action steps relevant stakeholders are taking to limit negative events that accompany urban growth. Conflicts between urbanization and environmental protection are eminent ...

In the present assignment we are to choose a company and to dwell on the entrepreneurial activity of it. As it is known, entrepreneurship has become popular in the world of today and at the same time entrepreneurship should not be regarded as an easy way of making money. This work demands certain effort both on the part of the leading manager and its personnel. The premise for the paper is that entrepreneurship presupposes, above all, close collaboration between the two. (Chinitz, 1961) Best Buy was formerly named as Sound of Music and the year of its foundation is ...

Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, erratic rainfall, deadly tsunamis, flooding, wildfires, heat waves, shrinking glaciers, and droughts are some visible highlights of a much debated global problem, i.e., the global warming. The problem is so severe that scientists, environmentalists, geographers, government officials, and various national and international tribunals huddle together time-to-time to embark on a sustainable solution to this issue. Nonetheless, the predicament persists putting everything (human beings, animals, birds, societies, environmental resources) in the soup. This paper discusses the impacts of global warming and the efficacy of solutions that are being implemented at national and global levels. Taking ...

Civilization combined with the industrial revolution has altered the cycle of life dramatically. Land, air and water are all elements that have experienced significant change to wildlife, atmospheric and human conditions. As urban cities expand throughout the globe, man becomes more dependent on corporations, construction, development and manufactured goods in the ultimate form consumption. In order to maintain consumerism, land is being built over using components that smother the Earth. Pouring concrete over a meadow, for example, suffocates both plant and wildlife and welcomes the exhaust of concrete, automobiles, trucks and rubber tires that overall poisons every natural characteristic ...

Homework Assignment # 2: Sustainable Communities

Part 1: Community Observations A closer view of my city which is Corvallis Oregon reveals that there is a general lack of sustainability regarding the three dimensions including ecology, social equity, and economy. Most people still get to work using public means of transport which pollutes the environment hence is not sustainable. Further, there are very few locally produced foods available in the community and the number of green spaces like parks, trails and greenways are not that many though there are a few of them around. There is only one gathering place for the community which is a ...

Overpopulation is the most serious problem faced by humans today. Population continues to expand at an alarming rate forcing depletion of natural resources. The demand for food, shelter and water causes havoc on the natural biodiversity of the Earth. Many species of plant and animals are eradicated and the freshwater resources are drained beyond recovery. The existing resources are not sufficient to sustain the increasing population. The increase in the demand for consumption of goods has led to a change in the cultivation pattern resulting in biological imbalance. Changes in the size of population affect all issues which range ...

Can every business have a sustainable future, and does it matter?

Can everyone be successful? Yes. But has everyone become successful then? No. Business entities have similar philosophical baseline. Updated history of business shows many failures and success of business entities. The companies once successful later vanished in the womb of time, whereas businesses who have failed successive times have become successful in the later. In all of such scenario of business turbulence, one thing is pretty clear that the business having strategic fit with the environment and sustainable salient features have actually survived over decades (some even over centuries) and with healthy returns. So, yes, it is possible that ...

Introduction

Economics of Sustainability is the ability to maintain a distinct level of economic growth indefinitely. Even though economics have conventionally stated economy and the ecological systems as different fields, the economic aspects of sustainability try to view the environment and economy as incredibly interlinked multifaceted systems. It gives more information on how the economic portion of the integrated system is transformed to be sustainable. Economically, sustainability provides an establishment of actions to be done by the present people that will not weaken the predictions of the future people to enjoy levels of wealth, consumption, or utility (Huesemann 547). Sustainability ...

Comments

I do not agree that infinite economic growth is sustainable. This is because people are now moving and preferring to improve quality of life, and for bringing improvement, they are utilizing resources. I agree that awareness, wisdom, and understanding plays an important role in this regard, but with the help of them people can only use these resources wisely, but they must have to use the resources. Further, industrial activities are increasing, which are exerting negative impact on environment, and depriving environment from natural resources. However, massive enhancement in consumption of the resources of earth, and the environmental influence ...

Comments to Post 1

Question 1 I also do not believe that the economic growth is sustainable, which is because of the fact that in order to make their survival possible, humans focus on extracting water, crops, and several minerals from the Earth. Humans then process the extracted material, and afterwards consume them. Furthermore, the food demand is increasing with the passage of time, and in order to fulfill the need, humans are getting useful minerals from the earth, which is making economic growth an unsuitable process. Sustainable economic growth is when there is no economic problem, particularly for future generations. Periods of ...

Introduction

It is imperative to note that productivity growth is an aspect that is often used by economists to gauge the performance of an economy. In evaluating the living standards of a country in the long-term, the efficiency with which capital and labor are combined has a significant role to play. However, it is worth noting that productivity alone cannot be relied on to measure the performance of an economy as it is inefficient. The concept has made most analysts to focus on other features such as labor productivity, a figure that is often arrived at by dividing the total ...

Sustainable Studies

I think that infinite economic growth is not sustainable. This is because of the fact that it is not possible to have no consumption of resources in the world. The utilization of the resources has enabled people to live their lives and also bring improvements in their life. So, planet earth is a limit as well as a source of growth. Sustainable development represents the development that ensures fulfillment of the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations (Baxter, Boisvert, Lindberg, and Mackrael 1). But, in order to achieve economic growth, countries are using ...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in the location of Gulf of Mexico on April 20th of 2010 due to an explosion which took place on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. Transocean, the operator and owner of the oil rig, is an offshore-oil-drilling company. However, it had been leased by BP Oil Company. A natural gas caused the blasting which caused a wellhead blowout. The blowout resulted in the worst marine oil spill in the history. Despite attempts to put a temporary seal to prevent the further oil spill, the equipment malfunctioned. The oil the contamination extended spill ...

Online personal data has in the recent past become the epicenter of commerce in regard to data brokers. This is illustrated by the growth in data mining companies such as Acxiom. The growth in the trading of data is attributed to the growth in demand for such data by private entities and government agencies among others. While the mining and commercialization of data is not a secret undertaking, many individuals are oblivious to this fact. This is illustrated by the vast amount of data points that people post online. Such data points include birth dates, sex, relationship status, credit ...

Introduction

A dam is a structure specifically constructed to obstruct the flow of moving water, and by extension raising the water level. Dams are built for various purposes, such as a means of flood control, water storage, and a source of hydroelectric power, specifically hydroelectric ones. Some dams are also used in transportation and inland navigation by acting as bridges that connect one side of a body of water to the next. In other words, dams can have many benefits for a developing society. Because of their perceived benefits, many dams have been built all over the world—at least ...

Abstract

The eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, is a globally distributed species of viviparous freshwater fish, found in tropical and temperate climates. It is considered an invasive species on several continents, including Australia, and it may threaten the survival of certain critically endangered native species throughout the world. It is of great interest to ecosystem conservation to monitor and control their populations. To gain a better understanding of this non-native species’ life history with potential implications of other species, we used passive-capture methods to obtain a 365-specimen sample from a campus pond. The lengths of the specimens were used to estimate ...

Introduction

Sustainability refers to the endurance of the systems as well as processes. It is a definition of how biological systems would stand as diverse and indefinitely productive. The sustainability process is extremely systematic in the definition of enduring systems as well as processes. There are a number of interconnected domains, which define the most reliable principle of the sustainability in the form of economics, socio-economics, as well as ecology. Sustainable development is the most critical principle in the definition of sustainability. As a socio-ecological process, sustainability is easily achieved through pursuit of a common ideal.

It would be defined ...

The issues faced by the Indian River Lagoon is quite similar to that of many rivers, lakes, and even oceans from various locations of the world. The steady decline in the marine population of the lagoon escalated to alarming rates by the end of the last decade. A few legislations that were passed in the early nineties to limit trawling in the estuarine region and as well as the direct dumping of untreated sewage wastes, had proved effective in the past. But later into the decade, the rescue efforts to salvage the lagoon and the ecosystem associated with it, ...

Executive Summary

The laptop retail market includes laptop sales that are sold through traditional brick and mortar retail outlets and now through mail order and online stores in the form of websites. Laptops are personal computing devices that can be used when the user is on the go to accomplish their own computing goals. Laptop retailing has major concerns that are focused on ensuring that the retailer’s own investment on the products does not end up remaining on the stores, instead, it should be made available for purchase by the consumers by ensuring that the information about what the retailer ...

All people worldwide watch TV, but not everyone enjoys watching regular TV with channels that offer programs at specific time on non-portable screens with old fashioned remote controls. Nowadays Internet TV, which is personalized and available at any time of the day, is replacing regular TV experience. The new era of Internet TV looks very perspective, flexible and big around the world. People's tastes are broad and the Internet provides a wide variety of interests today and is even able to meet everybody’s needs based upon individual users' tastes. Today being one of the leading firms of the ...

Space/ Scale/ Territory

Millennium Park is a 24.5-acre park that has several venues for performance, art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape architecture. It is located centrally in Chicago’s central business district and the lakefront. The Millennium Park emerged from a dilapidated ground-level parking space and rail yard into perhaps what may be regarded as the world’s biggest “green roof,” spanning two multi-level parking spaces with a total of over 4,000 cars and one commuter rail line. In Millennium Park, space is created in various ways. For example, there is the illusion of space created through structures and activities that allow ...

Understanding the external business environment will help Priam Rossa to make a huge step in its expansion plans. The environmental analysis provides a framework for developing strategic options in efforts to make a significant presence in the global markets. Due to globalization, the floral market is constantly facing major changes through factors that could be controlled by the organization and those that are out of control. This implies that the operations of Prima Rossa as it seeks to expand its roses retailing business will be influenced greatly by the environment in the territories it wishes to penetrate. The following ...