Sustainable Development Goals and Green Growth
Presentation - 37 pages - Ecology & environment
This PowerPoint is about sustainable development goals. It shows an understanding on what sustainable development means and how to take into account our current situation and move towards a green growth. We will see how limited it will be due to inequalities around the world. We will understand...
Etude de cas Toms Shoes
Case study - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
Il s'agit d'une étude de cas en anglais sur TOMS Shoes et sa stratégie de responsabilité sociale et environnementale. L'étude répond aux questions : - What are the key elements of TOMS shoes' competitive strategy? Is the strategy best described as low cost, differentiation, or...
Philanthropic Strategies for Children and the Next Generation
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
For millions of children around the world, every day is a struggle. This is why we have to be able to act without delay in a race against the clock where every day counts. In fact, as we know, everything we do as an impact today and tomorrow on our beautiful planet. If we want to save the world,...
Idea of progress - How Americans relate to ecology nowadays?
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
We will talk about the notion of the idea of progress and illustrate it with the environmental issue in the USA. Progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change. It can be a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. Here, we...
Is sustainable development a contradiction in terms?
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Define in 1987 by the Brundtland's rapport, the Sustainable Development is the capacity to respond to the present needs without compromising future generations' needs. The Sustainable Development notion was really established since 1992 with the Rio Earth Summit involving a hundred...
The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems
Presentation - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
So, today, I would like to highlight the topic of fishing as linked to ecosystem preservation.
The consequences of climate change
Dissertation - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Climate change, and more generally all natural upheavals, is progressively accepted as a blatant reality by the vast majority of people, and to begin with, by those who are directly affected by them.
What worries you the most concerning global warming ?
Dissertation - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
In September 2018, Nicolas Hulot resigned as Minister of Ecology, describing his time at the head of this ministry as an "accumulation of disappointment".
Garbage patches
Presentation - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Garbage patches, also known as trash vortexes, are a major environmental issue to be solved soon. There sadly is not just one, but actually every ocean is affected, and for oceanographic reasons, the Atlantic and the Pacific even have two each, one in the North, the other in the South.
Can luxury and more precisely jewelry be ethical ?
Case study - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
There is a lot of special occasions and sometimes flowers and happyness are not enough. Sadly, when a customer enters a jewellry he rarely thinks of where the jewelry comes from or its social and environmental cost.
Photo's Studies About Pollution - English oral
Presentation - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
This document is a photograph of a factory in Saint-Ouen, in the north of Paris. This photo comes from a report wrote by France 24. The photographer's name is Philippe Lopez. The photojournalist takes this photo on the 12th of December 2018 (two thousand eighteen). This photo deals with the...
Impact of agroforestry and social forestry on wildlife: birds and smaller animals
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Most modern systems of raising animals separate animals from their natural environment. In these systems, many of the cycles of nature which are beneficial to both animals and their environment are broken. The use of animals can be a controversial topic. In many situations, especially in the...
The Unsustainable Consequence for Our Planet of Food Wastes
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Food waste is a very huge global problem both to the food security of the planet and even to the environment. It has negative effects on biodiversity, wastage of earth's fertile land, increased carbon footprints and acceleration of climatic change. Scientists have suggested different ways to help...
Environmental law and social justice
Case study - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Arne Naess, researcher in University of Oslo, emphasizes two trends of ecology .
Deforestation - Causes, consequences and solutions
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Deforestation is the phenomenon of reducing forest areas. The forest constitutes 30.6% of the global land area. Four centuries ago it was 66% and this surface area is still declining. Each year 15.3 billion trees are cut. We have a record in 2016 with the loss of 30 million hectares of forest....
Depolluting the river Thames
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Let's travel to somewhere almost near by, I'm sure some of you have actually seen it with your own eyes. I'm talking about the river Thames, which is the longest river in England, with almost three hundred fifty kilometers long... As a result, you won't find it very surprising if...
Global warming and climate change
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
These are terms used to describe increased earth's temperatures. Human activities and natural occurrences are said to be the major contributors to this increase. Increase in greenhouse gases for example carbon dioxide result to the temperatures increase. The U.S. have been a major contributor...
Should the United States consider increasing their use of renewable energy or not?
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
The United States (U.S) use both renewable and non-renewable energy. According to Gielen, Saygin & Wagner (2015), in 2015, United States Energy consumption were:Coal-33%, Natural Gas-33%, Nuclear-20%, Hydropower-6%, Other renewables-7%, Biomass-1.6%, Geothermal-0.4%, Solar-0.6%, Wind-4.7%,...
Hidden Lessons, David Suzuki - Learning beyond the unintentional messages
Book review - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
The environment shapes humanity, yet humanity tries to shape the environment. This habit of manipulation has been passed on from generations to generations. According to "Hidden Lessons" by David Suzuki, parental involvement has led to the ignorance toward the environment. However, ignorance is...
Policy for preventing pollution in France
Essay - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
During the twentieth century, there has been growing awareness of the impact of human activities on the environment and public health. In fact, the pollution cause adverse health effects of human (increased of respiratory disorders, disease, cancer, excess mortality), exert a harmful effect on...
Economic and policy issues from the spill : Gulf war oil spill of 1991
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
In any oil spill, looking at the economic issues that are raised, the first parameter that is used is the number of gallons of oils that were spilt to measure the loss that was suffered in monetary terms. In the case of the gulf war oil spill of 1991, it caused the loss of millions of gallons of...
International Law, Climate Change and the Arctic- The relevance of the Sustainable Development policy
Essay - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
The environmental degradation expressed by the proliferation of phenomena as the destruction of the fauna and flaura, the deforestation, the proliferation of Permanent Organic Pollutant, the expansion of the hole in the ozone, global warming reflect the necessity of a global environmental action...
Is coal an energy of the past or of the future?
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Coal is today one of the most important energy sources of the world, second only to oil. But the use of coal raises several issues. First there's the issue of energy supply. In a globalized world with mass production, the energy supply must be abundant and the energy must be as cheap as...
Policy proposal: HydroBuses
Case study - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
The following policy proposal seeks to reduce GHG emissions through the introduction and implementation of a hydrogen powered fuel cell bus in a small municipal transit system. Implementation on the small scale would reduce financial risks since the initial investment costs would be significantly...
Thermal solar energy
Worksheets - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
A renewable energy is a source of energy, which can be renewed quickly enough in order to be considered inexhaustible. It is the outcome of a natural phenomenon usually provoked by the sun, the moon, and the earth… These “energy sources of the future”, whose aim is to replace the...
Is the government doing enough to ensure that the environment is safe and healthy?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Governmental action on behalf of environmental problems has been a significant subject of subject of social and political commentators during recent decades. In light of new recent pressing concerns like Global warming and climate change, environmental issues have become a matter of public...
Why is the white shark's future endangered?
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Sharks are marine predators, well known as bloodthirsty killers by humans owing to the incidence of shark attacks and subsequent human casualties. But for these 4 or 5 people killed in a year, almost 100 millions of sharks are killed each year. According to the association “Shark...
What can Bristol do to be a green city and what can we do for Bristol to become a true green capital city?
Essay - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
During these last few years, environmental issues have rapidly gained prominence on both the political and business agendas. Public interest in such environmental issues has risen since the initial interest in the 1960s and 1970s, but a particular feature of the recent revival of interest in...
Costa Rica's reputation as Ecotourism destination at stake
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Ecotourism is not a universally defined concept and the literature gives several definitions for it. However the most known and widespread is the one provided by The International Ecotourism Society (TIES, 2004) as “a responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and...
Should ecological security replace sustainable development as the organising principle of global environmental governance?
Thesis - 12 pages - Ecology & environment
In Our Common Future, the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1990, 87, 105), both phrases of sustainable development and environmental security marked their entry into the international debates and were highlighted as important notions of the future global...
