Enforcement of environmental policies in Europe
Thesis - 2 pages - Political science
Acid rain, coastal pollution, deforestation, toxic waste, and industrial contamination infect Europe's landscapes, waterways, and skies at higher levels than ever before. The United Nations, the European Union, and other international organizations have been implementing new environmental...
Basic concepts in global environmental politics
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Bringing a variety of perspectives to the table, there are three very influential actors involved in global environmental governance: Nation States, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Corporations. Scientists have been excluded from the category of “actor” because any of these...
Supplier selection with social and environmental issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which is affected by several conventional conflicting factors such as quality, delivery, service and time. Recently government insists enterprises to take care of environmental regulation and social issues such as...
Chornobyl disaster: Radiation, Biology, Dosimetry, and Protection
Essay - 4 pages - Biology
Understanding radiation protection, biology, dosimetry, and other pertinent topics is imperative for individuals working with ionizing radiation in medical or industrial settings. Understanding these subjects is the first step in minimizing radiation exposure risks for people and the...
Green or environmental logistics
Essay - 5 pages - Logistics
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...
Principales of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Presentation - 46 pages - Medical studies
In their work, people can be exposed to dangerous chemicals, hazardous physical agents, emotional stress, and trauma. Any of these occupational exposures can cause disease—sometimes immediately and sometimes after an interval of years or decades. In addition, tens of millions of people of...
Business report : Veolia Environmental Services
Essay - 32 pages - Business strategy
As part of the Business to Business project, a team comprising Nicholas Dawson, Arnaud le Floch and Rouh Rouh Tan Tan decided to conduct an in-depth business study concerning a leading European waste management company: Veolia Environmental Services. Following the aftermath of “An...
Does intelligence have a stronger genetic or environmental basis?
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
In light of the pioneering nature of behavioral genetics and in terms of explanatory power and predictive ability, highlighting constructive directions for future research, the aim of the current essay is to examine a wealth of evidence within the field of behavioral genetics to provide a...
The environmental impact of aquaculture operations
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Human cultivation has produced habitats specialized for artificially spawning and nurturing aquatic animals and plants in fresh and marine waters. By assisting to meet the market demand for seafood consumption, aqua cultural operations have yielded clear and significant financial advantages,...
The company Renault and the consideration of environmental issues in its production
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Renault was founded by Louis Renault and his brothers in 1898. It is a familial and traditional company that made a name for itself through the years, different periods and centuries. Indeed, Renault's group went thought two wars and an economic crisis, and by always adapting its strategy and its...
The protection of consumers on Internet
Essay - 15 pages - Other law subjects
The recent boom of the internet in Europe and the emergence of a new kind of commerce (e-commerce) led to a widening of the commercial offers that can be proposed to the consumers. Simultaneous with such an expansion in internet offering come the demand for online security regarding the rights...
The role of HR managers in the context of changing external environmental factors
Thesis - 13 pages - Human resources
Over the last two decades, the work environment has improved in new techniques that no one expected, causing growth in innovation and globalization. The following era will witness superior changes, influencing all sides of the workstation, containing main variations for HR managers. To respond...
Why, according to Iversen, have the United States and Continental Europe adopted such different approaches to labor markets and social protection?
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
Published in 2005, Torben Iversen, tries in his book ?Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare', to build a general explanation on why within a group of countries labeled western type democracies there are such differences regarding economic equality and welfare protection. With an integrated...
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...
Humanitarian intervention: The responsibility to protect (R2P)
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The protection of human rights is now considered as an important element of International Law. However, if there are frequent calls for “humanitarian interventions” (that is “coercive action against a state to protect people within its border from suffering grave harm”...
Discuss the main microeconomic environmental factors affecting the junior mineral resource industry
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
This report is to discuss the main microeconomic environmental factors affecting the junior mineral resource industry. To avoid confusion the report will concentrate on the junior exploration mineral industry versus the mining industry. The mining industry is directly related to the junior...
Investigating the key issues concerning child protection in the UK and France
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Social policy "is based upon a distinct empirical focus- the support and well-being through social action." (Alcock et al 1998). It draws upon the methods and understandings involved in many social science disciplines e.g. sociology, economics and politics and is founded in many areas of society...
Environmental sustainability of events
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Educational studies
In this report the author aims to educate the readers regarding environmentally sustainable event management. The author believes that in today's trend it is very important not only for event managers but also people from all other sectors to think about our environment and how our day to day...
Analyzing the links between disability and child abuse and evaluating the role of Social Services with regards to Disabled Child Protection
Thesis - 21 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The protection of children is today a high profile issue, within both the voluntary and statutory sectors, although the abuse of disabled children is a matter that has only recently attracted professional interest. Whilst many people find it difficult to believe that disabled children,...
The trouble with Wilderness - Cronon (1996); The ambivalence of post-development: between reactionary populism and radical democracy - Ziai (2004) - Development and environmental geography
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - World geography
Cronon questions the wilderness, often seen as the only hope, an antidote - wrongly, in his view. Indeed, he believes that this nature is the work of the human hand. The term wilderness is a pure creation of civilization: what it refers to has evolved over time. This was reflected in various art...
Environmental issues associated with wind turbines
Presentation - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
This slide show is part of the debate on wind turbines and their place in the development of renewable energies.
Principles and practices of consumer's protection within the European Union
Thesis - 19 pages - European law
The European Union aims at protecting the health, safety and economic well-being of its citizens. It promotes their rights to information, helps them safeguard their interests and encourages them to set up consumer associations. Consumer policy is designed to improve the quality of life of all...
Ben & Jerry's ice cream: Environmental policy report
Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy
Hailing from a single store in Vermont, created by two men making ice-cream, Ben & Jerry's has rapidly become a truly global company, employing 514 people in the US alone, and operating 550 small ‘Scoop Shops' spread across the US and 23 other countries across the world. By their own...
Is there a 'responsibility to protect'? Is the UN capable of protecting the victims of internal conflicts?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Civil wars are, today, since the end of the Cold War, the dominant form of conflicts all around the world. For instance, as Stephen John Stedman explains, 'all thirty-five of the wars in 1997 were primarily internal' . Massive violence, destruction and killing tend, so, nowadays, to...
Environmental Cluster
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Learning about how to preserve the environment has always been one of my interests, and having a forester as a grandfather encouraged my passion for the environment and animals. A couple years ago, I took a class called Religion and the Earth with Dr. Christopher Bache, and it made me more aware...
Analysis of environmental toxins via Gas Chromatography (FID)
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Gas chromatography is an efficient process employed for the separation and determination of various analytes. With the use of a flame ionization detector, gas chromatography can be specifically applied to the chromatographic separation of organic compounds. There are very few processes of...
Of Gustavo Capanema vision on the question in brazilian population protection act creating social family
Case study - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When Getulio Vargas adopted Decree-Law 3200 of April 19, 1941 - on social protection of the family - was determining state intervention in poor and large families. New in Brazil and recent attitude in Europe, corresponding to the so-called "family issue" problematic within the critical and...
Hemlock forest ecological analysis - Environmental gradients
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
The Hemlock Forest Model represents the varying diversities along an environmental gradient. Variations in elevation can potentially yield alterations in various biological processes, which subsequently form complex assemblage interactions. The Hemlock Forest displayed a high level of...
John Barry, social theory and the environment, London: Routledge, 1999, chap.5 "Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought" & Mary Mellor, "Eco-feminism and environmental ethics: a materialist perspective", in Michael E. Zimmerman (ed.)
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The first text, “gender, the nonhuman world and social thought”, presents the concept of eco-feminism by highlighting the links between environment, gender and social theory. The main movements within eco-feminism are explained with both their advantages and limits. The author chose...
The American West: A clash of social, cultural, and environmental forces
Thesis - 9 pages - Modern history
The character of America was largely shaped by the American experience in the West from the early 1700s until the present day. Although the values of freedom and equality under the law had been established in the East during the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history, the clash of...
