The role of the Swedish State in environmental politics
Book review - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
The issue of this literature review is to study the role of a state in politics, and which needs the support and the involvement of the public sector as well as the private sector, of the social group interests and the market, and which has to be decided and implemented at the local and...
America's Dangerous Dependence on Non-renewable Energy and the Possible Solutions
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
In the U.S. we rely more on the burning of fossil fuels more than any other country. Retrieving such forms of fuel can be extremely detrimental to the land and animals that surround the site. Drilling for oil is one particular way that fuel is obtained that has caused severe damage to all types...
What problems confront the British government in attempting to address the issue of climate change?
Essay - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
The issue of climate change is now a global problem, which all European countries take into account. However, fluctuation in global temperatures is not a recent phenomenon. Periods of warming and cooling have occurred for centuries and are classified as a natural phenomenon. Nevertheless, the...
Industrial Air Pollution: Effects and Efforts to Contain
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
As a capitalist nation, we are constantly seeking to foster the growth of our economy and overall development. Our industrious nature has led to an industrial presence that makes the burning of fossil fuels our pinnacle source of energy, and a requirement for fueling our economic stability....
Monarch Conservation and Justice in Mexico
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Monarch butterflies are among the most charismatic of endangered fauna. Because of not only their visual beauty but also their enchanting migrations, they have achieved striking popularity especially among Northern conservationists. While these migrations may be spectacular, they are also...
Ecological Nature of the Problem of acid rain
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Over the course of the last several decades, notable environmental problems have come to the attention of policymakers. Chief among these issues has been the problem of acid rain. Although many governments have argued that they are not responsible for the production of acid rain in the global...
The study of climate change simulation by Arpege-Climat model
Essay - 27 pages - Ecology & environment
The natural climate of Earth has always been and continues to be in constant evolution. Several thousands of years ago, and before the current climate became warm, the whole Earth was much colder when a huge mass of ice covered the major part of Europe, Russia and North America. It was the last...
Man's Loss of Nature
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Mention of the term nature conjures many images in the minds of contemporary readers. Some picture the robed, ivy-crowned beauty of Mother Nature. Some consider the fields and forests of Whitman. The idea here in question is the nature of man—the state in which he is born—that of...
Towards the modelling in prediction of failure and success of rural area projects (or programmes) in subsaharan Africa: The case of the D.R.C.(ex-Zaïre)
Essay - 30 pages - Ecology & environment
Improper feasibility studies had conducted unsuccessful rural development projects or programs. This investigation does pose some fundamental questions to be considered before implementing any rural development projects in the sub-Saharan Africa. There are substantial evidences to the fact that...
USA's Behaviour towards the environmental problems
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
As the world's largest polluter, America has recently refrained from backing pollution treaties aimed at reducing car emissions or petrol consumption. The US alone accounted for 36.1% of worldwide greenhouse emissions in 1990. "The US contains 4% of the world's population but produces...
Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility
Essay - 40 pages - Ecology & environment
The Nobel-winning IPCC group of climate scientists on Saturday the 17th, 2007 issued their starkest warning yet on global warming. Global warming bore the seeds of "catastrophe" yet there was also hope, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon emphasized. Nonetheless "There are real and affordable ways...
Investigative Report on Climate Change: The actions of the Australian Government
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
This report explores the recent issue of climate change. It will outline the key elements that make climate change an important issue politically. It will focus on how the issue of climate change is being addressed by both the Australian Labor and Liberal Parties.Climate Change has recently...
Hurricane Katrina: The Aftermath of a Government Failure
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
In the late days of August 2005, forecasters and meteorologists closely watched a storm soon to be named Katrina brewing in the Gulf of Mexico. Like many other infamous hurricanes of similar magnitude, the tropical storm began rather quietly and only caused initial high winds and some tangential...
International equity and justice in the politics of climate change
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
A paradox surrounds the concern on equity in the debates and politics on climate change. In this field of research, Adam Rose appears to be the pioneer, opening in 1992 with the publication of Equity Considerations of Tradeable Carbon Emission Entitlements, a wealth and luxuriant wave of complex...
Sustainable development, oil and the future: the trilogy
Essay - 22 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development has been extensively discussed in the past few years, and is still a great matter of concern nowadays. In fact, there is no single way to deal with this subject, except choosing a guideline of this workshop avoiding “clichés”. Its main objective is therefore to...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) : PET-bottles - publié le 13/04/2008
Essay - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
A life cycle assessment is the investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence. It is a variant of input-output analysis focusing on physical rather than monetary flows. The procedures of life cycle assessment (LCA)...
How can organizations tackle environmental constraints to reach an eco-efficient supply chain?
Essay - 11 pages - Ecology & environment
For many years, being ecologically and environmentally friendly was not a concern for companies; they mostly focused on costs no matter how harmful their practices and processes might be for the environment. However, today, environmental issues are growing and becoming a real threat....
Fuel cells
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
What are the limiting factors in the introduction of PEM fuel cells into mobile power generation? What areas of research are being carried out to address these limitations and which of these do you feel will have the biggest impact in enabling the various types of fuel cells systems? Proton...
Wind energy for power generation
Essay - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
Currently the first renewable energy (apart from hydro power) used in term of capacity installed throughout the world; wind energy is in constant development [fu]. From the first commercially produced turbines of the 1980s, which were using borrowed technology (aerofoil and blade construction...
The United States and global warming
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
'We are entering a time of consequences'', said Winston Churchill after World War 2, warning about upcomong cold war coming. In his movie, 'The Inconvenient Truth', Al Gore tells about Global Warming and the hot war coming! We now know what would be its consequences on the...
Global warming
Essay - 7 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 healthy is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Facing increasing concerns about protecting the environment, the government has enacted the Healthy Forests Restoration Act in 2003 to help control wildfires. However, there has been some speculation that "thinning" forests is actually a ruse for timber companies to cut down more trees. In...
France's balance of payments analysis
Worksheets - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
We are going to focus here on the latest France's balance of payments. The document used is mainly the balance of 2006 which was published on June 19th 2007, but will the previous years will also be useful to define the trend, and especially the 2005 balance because some information are not...
Global warming may open Northwest Passage
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
It is almost daily that television news mention environmental and natural disasters in each area of the world. Thus, the recent environmental events in the last years were cyclones like Katrina, tsunamis, floods, dryness… Scientifics don't give a verdict on these events but public opinion...
Oil depletion and use of vehicles: what are the alternative energies?
Essay - 14 pages - Ecology & environment
In our modern society, oil is omnipresent in our habits and plays a significant role. It has several stakes in economical, political and strategic fields. Indeed oil is considered as the best energy source because it is easily extracted, stocked and transformed. Moreover, its energy yield is very...
Ignorance is a Blight
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Ever since modern humans have formed a cohesive society, they have slowly removed themselves from being manipulated by their surroundings, to being in direct control of the surrounding environment. One form of this control is the use of pesticides to keep crops, and various locations free of...
The Bat Stops Here - Or does it ? The Continuing Obligation of Agencies under NEPA and ESA
Essay - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are two important environmental statutes passed by Congress to help preserve the earth and its resources for future generations. Under these statutes, governmental agencies are required to determine how their...
Environment and international trade
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
The warming of the planet and global climatic change has been the centre of heated debate for the last few years. The environmental problems, by the force of nature, somehow set themselves to the political agenda of the planet. In this paper I'd like to see if the concepts of trade and...
Anti-Pollution and air/water quality in Canada
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The object of this brief note is an environmental issue. It concerns the anti-pollution policy and the means to improve air and water quality in Canada. Indeed, this problem touches the entire Canadian population. Here, there is no discrimination concerning class, gender or race: everyone is...
According to neoclassical environmental economics, how should future environmental benefits and costs be discounted? What are the possible effects of such discounting?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Since environmental problems are long run problems with, eventually, long run solutions, environmental economics has been much occupied with discount rates, which is a tool used to estimate the value of future costs and benefits, related to present costs or benefits. In other words, discounting...
