Handling and disposal of low level nuclear waste
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Low level nuclear waste includes materials which are not radioactive themselves but have become contaminated because of their exposure to neutron radiations. These items find their use in nuclear power plants, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, government and private development facilities,...
Les énergies renouvelables au Danemark
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Denmark is the greenest power in the world. That is to say that they are leaders in renewable energies market, but they are also opinion leader. In fact, a great part of the population is favorable to renewable energies and doesn't care if a wind farm is erected next to their home. That typical...
Climate change and green house gas emissions: issues and challenges in India
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
Green house gas (GHG) emission is a matter of grave concern across the world. The adverse impacts happen mainly in the form of climate change and global warming. Immediate steps are required to cut the emissions. India is the fourth largest emitter of GHG in the world in absolute terms. Being a...
Utilization of solar energy: An alternative of conventional energy sources
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The earth continuously gets the shower of radiation of the sun, which is the mother of all forms of energy-conventional or non conventional. The amount of solar radiation reaching the earth is called “insolation” -the short form for “incident solar radiation”. Solar energy is...
Co-gasification of municipal sewage sludge and asphaltene residue from refineries for production of synfuels/power
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
One of the gravest problems being experienced by non-oil producing developing country like India is spiraling prices of petroleum crude which has seriously inhibited growth of power sector thereby considerably decelerating the growth rate. Added to this, the explosion in the population of the...
Mitigation of CO2 emission with CNG vehicles: A case study of Delhi
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Recently, the CNG utilization in transport vehicles has been one of many measures initiated by the Government of Delhi, to solve growing deterioration of air quality of Delhi due to manifold increase in number of vehicles. In the present study, results of structured questionnaire based survey on...
Green marketing: a true battle or a mean to meet an underlying strategic end?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development is now on everybodys' lips and the movement to save the planet is starting to have quite an impact in the most developed countries. Barack Obama made it a key argument to win over the American voters during his run for presidency and now companies are also crying out...
Geography: climate change Solutions ?
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Is climate change a reality? Some people claim that actions should be taken to reduce our CO2 emissions, some believe that this neurosis on climate change is unjustified, that all the observations that have been made on climate change are natural changes. But this temperature change doesn't...
The environment, a new geographical paradigm
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Many geographers still define geography as the study of human relationships, nature. At the end of the nineteenth century, Paul Vidal de la Blache distinguished physical geography and human geography. Geologists distinguish themselves by distinguishing physical features, while geographers study...
Should the Kyoto Treaty be ratified?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Taking note of the reality of global warming in the 1990s, and of the human responsibility in this change, political leaders initiated a policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol, which came into effect on February 2005, is an amendment of the United Nations Framework...
Environmentalism ("Green ideology") has been labelled an ideology by Ball, Dagger. Do you agree or disagree and why?
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The Greens often refuse to call environmentalism an ideology and most of them prefer to talk about ethics, a respect towards all forms of life. Some people do not consider that environmentalism is an ideology since every party now includes green measures in their platform. In France, for...
In what ways has the 'environment' become a global issue?
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Since the 1970s, scientific research concerning the environment has been increasing. The vital concern is global warming. According to research, global warming is currently becoming worse and it affects a lot the hole in the ozone layer, making it bigger. The proof is the increase in the number...
Is United States the Greenest Nation?
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
The United States seems to be the biggest polluter in comparison with the other countries, and more precisely with the European and Asian ones. As an example, The United States emits 50% more greenhouse gases than the European Union for each dollar of GDP. America can be considered as the...
Environmental issues in business
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development does not focus solely on environmental issues. Sustainable development can be defined by different ways. We find four main approaches which are economic considerations, ethical considerations, socio-cultural considerations and political and legal considerations. As regards...
The Amazon rainforest
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. This area consists of seven million square kilometers; though the forest itself occupies some 4.5 million square kilometers located within nine nations: Brazil (which includes 60 percent of the rainforest),...
Private governance in forestry politics
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
In the first part of this document, we have pointed out that deforestation and loss of terrestrial diversity are serious global problems requiring concerted action. A number of measures have been discussed in the international arena to promote sustainable forest management. The emergence of a...
Global warming - publié le 17/05/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
In today's society, environmental issues have an important impact on business and industrial decisions and are becoming part and parcel of economics. We live in scorching summers, the winters seem to be milder from year to year, and the seasons seem to have disappeared. Are these observations...
How Finnish people live and adapt to a particular external environment
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
To begin, we have to underline that the point that will be developed here is that Finnish people are strongly connected with nature. First of all, more than a quarter of the country is northern than the polar circle: Finland is the most septentrional country in Europe... Then, Finland is known as...
Water use and climate change : the effects of climate change on global water cycle
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
What I particularly want to stress in this essay is the necessary link that we have to make between climate change and water resources. It shows that it's necessary to understand those links and to investigate them if we want to find and propose recommendations and adaptations in order to...
The sustainable development of the canal from Nantes to Brest
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
The Canal de Nantes à Brest is a French canal that links the two cities of Nantes and Brest through Brittany. This canal, which is an artificial navigable waterway, links the above two cities and is believed to have originated in the 16th century. There is no doubt that the Canal is historically...
The fight against climate change: a burning international issue
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Climate change is an environmental issue that is now recognized by almost the entire scientific community in the world. It affects the entire planet. The climate is influenced by both natural and human factors. However, it's been proven that human activities are responsible for a wide range of...
Species extinction: a natural phenomenon?
Essay - 14 pages - Ecology & environment
Since 1992, the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature enlisted that three hundred and forty-nine new species had been discovered. Of this huge number, about 51% of them were expected to reach extinction. It was only 5% of all the recognized species that had a stable...
The wave of greening Universities around the United States: case study at Tulane University (New Orleans) (2008)
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Tulane University is considered a sister school of Rice University. In fact, after the disastrous hurricane Katrina, many of Tulane students took up temporary residence at Rice University. The university was founded in 1834, initially only as a public medical college. Since then, Tulane...
Conservation issues for tropical reef fish spawning aggregations
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Coral reefs are in decline worldwide due to a variety of anthropogenic factors, of which overfishing is the oldest and most egregious (Bellwood et al. 2004, Graham et al. 2006). Tropical reef fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) are preferentially targeted due to their predictable spatial and...
Business ethics, my dilemma: Cosmetic testing on animals
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Cosmetics are used daily by millions of people, and include a vast range of products such as shampoo, makeup, moisturizer, perfume, etc. Approximately 38,000 animals are used every year across the EU to test new ingredients and products. And in the world, cosmetics companies kill millions of...
Climate change and politics: a real shift or status quo?
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
We will try to analyze the responses from the political field against climate change and the overall sustainable development. Climate change means significant change in the average weather, which causes a lot of perturbations on the natural system. The French president, Jacques Chirac, in a...
Domestic politics on the international environmental political scene
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
The environment represents a very particular area of international politics. As it constitutes a non-rival and a non-excludable good, this issue crosses the borders of all nation-states. The concerns regarding environmental damages affect all nations. Garrett Hardin, who developed the metaphor of...
Taking back space: Preventing and reducing the proliferation of space weapons
Essay - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
Weapons proliferation in outer space is not a thing of the future or something of science fiction. It is real and it is happening right now. The advancement of weapons technology continues to grow exponentially as does mankind's exploration of space. Controlling weapons technology in outer space...
The relationship the Finnish have with nature - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Talking about Finland without mentioning the nature is like forgetting more than 188.000 sparkling lakes, putting away the dense forest and woodland areas fully covering 76 percent of the nation (27 in France), the lung and the pride of any Finnish. That's impossible! Whereas Finland was a rural...
Hurricanes: Powerful natural disasters - published: 19/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Current events often deal about natural disasters. Worldwide, many natural catastrophes happen every year: tornadoes, thunderstorms, floods, hail, drought, fire, seism, volcano activity. Theirs effects often are dramatic. Lately, we heard about the tsunami in Asia, and also about the seism in...
