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...
The role of domestic gardens in the maintenance of biodiversity in urban areas: applying landscape principles
Essay - 25 pages - Ecology & environment
Nowadays, landscape ecology is adopted not only in natural areas but in the urban too. Nowadays, the urban population had resorted to adopting landscape ecology to create more ?green spaces' in the urban setup and also to instill awareness among the scientific community which promotes the...
El Nino with its large ecological consequences. The case of fires in Borneo
Essay - 29 pages - Ecology & environment
El Niño is a climatic phenomenon that arrives approximately during the period of Christmas in the east part of the Pacific Ocean near the west coast of South America. It involves elements from both, the Tropical Ocean and the Global Atmosphere. From a climatic point of view, El Niño is an...
Institutional Failures of the Global Environmental Governance
Essay - 42 pages - Ecology & environment
Despite a great awareness of environmental questions from developed and developing countries, there is a degradation of environmental issues and an appearance of new environmental problems. This aggravation of environmental matters is due to the inefficient state of the global environmental...
Nuclear risk perception in La Hague: An integration of sociological risk theories
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Risk and uncertainty issues are especially distinct in the case of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy, as one of the symbols of the technological development of modern societies, is controversial in its nature. On the one hand, it was created to enable the unlimited production of energy, but on the...
Coal: energy of the future or energy of the past?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
In 2006, Doctor Heinz Scholtholt, member of a German firm of the energy industry (STEAG), pretended that Germany could become the worldwide leader of the coal industry by developing new clean coal technologies. Less than a year later, the German coalition's government has decided to stop its coal...
Air transportation and climate change
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
A sophisticated transport system has evolved in Europe to move people and frets. The air transport industry is growing at rate above the average growth of the economy of the EU: multiplication of short distance flies, the arrival of the “low cost” market, and increasing of aerial fret...
Green or environmental logistics
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
For a number of years, environmental issues have been a growing concerns in society, particularly in the business practices. Under influences of lobby, customers or stakeholders, the idea of sustainable development and of ecological respect has become more popular. Thus, as many other activities...
Salon Vivez Nature: Trade Show of biological agriculture and natural products
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
What is a biological product? A product is considered biological when the producer did not use any pesticide, chemical weedkiller or fertilizer of synthesis. The biological farmers rather use natural manures, original seeds and cultivate the ground thanks to tested methods. In France, the real...
Cradle to Cradle Design
Thesis - 29 pages - Ecology & environment
In March 2005, the UN released its Millennium Ecosystem Assessment , the first comprehensive scientific audit of the state of the planet. Completed over four years by 2,000 experts, the survey demonstrates that economic activity has destroyed 60% of the Earth's life-supporting ecosystems,...
What are the ethical issues surrounding Genetically Modified food for humans?
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Genetic engineering comes more under the topic of medicine than under the topic of food. From medical research, and, our centuries old conceptions of what humans are, and other ethical issues surrounding genetic engineering have been questioned. Decoding of the genome, praenatale diagnostics for...
Tsunamis of Sumatra Island
Presentation - 18 pages - Ecology & environment
Tsunami: appearance of a wave (wavefront).Propagation velocity: depth of the sea. The loss of energy is inversely proportional to the size. A tsunami travels quickly but also on long distances without losing consequent energy. With the approach of the coasts Tsunami slows down since its flow of...
The floods and the Cevenol phenomenon
Presentation - 24 pages - Ecology & environment
Floods = natural disaster. Floods = hazard for human and several animals. The Mediterranean supplies water. The Cevennes block everything. Climatic situation between 8h and 15h. Formation of cloudy cells, break up in point of V, V cells aspirate everything. Most of impacts are centered in south...
The Networks of the Renewable Energy Policies in the United States, Belgium, and France.
Essay - 28 pages - Ecology & environment
At the end of September 2004, the Russian government announced its ratification to the Kyoto protocol. This event gave the question of renewable energies a new breath. The goal of this work will be to compare the networks of decision in the three home countries of the members of the group, and to...
The World Summit on sustainable development. Stakes and consequences
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Ten years after the first "Earth Summit? at Rio in Brazil in June 92, a second Summit was flagged of on August 26th and was concluded on September 4th. Indeed, this Summit has a more practical motive than Rio's, according to the Summit Secretary General, Nitin Desai, who declared that we...
Earth global warming, any solutions?
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
One of the most important ecological problems of the last decade is the global warming of the earth, in fact most scientists agree that the earth has gained about one half to one degree Fahrenheit. The consequences will be dramatic: floods, enormous storms, catastrophic ecological changes. For...
