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...
The effects of EU preferential treatment on exports of developing Countries
Case study - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
After the World War II, the European Union wanted to maintain tight economic links with its ex-colonies. Therefore, the EU granted preferential access to its market to these independent countries with the main goal to promote their exports. The set of these trade preferences can be divided into...
A brief introduction to the Chinese Environmental Law
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Before embarking on survey of Chinese views on environmental law and policy, we will present background material on the development of environmental law and policy in China and shortcomings and key problem areas in China's environmental administration. This article will treat, in brief, the...
Energy in Europe
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The European model of development after the Second World War was based on the use of cheap energy, with little environmental consideration. This model resulted in considerable economic development, that of the "Thirty Glorious Years". In 1973 and 1979, two oil shocks dented this previously...
Is sustainable development the only response to the planet's exhaustion of resources?
Dissertation - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
The disturbances of the climate, the destruction of the ecosystem, the rarefaction of the water resources are threatening the continuation of life on earth. In the meantime, our societies wonder about an economic dynamic that leads to exclusion and inequalities no one seems to be in a position to...
Cars and the environment in Britain
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Human beings always search for technical progress, the industrial revolution is a good example of this assertion but it is sometimes to the detriment of the nature. The invention of the car was decisive, thanks to it, time and space can be reduced but it has also some disastrous effects on the...
The future of nuclear energy: The European Energy Policy
Case study - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
It is hard to forecast with any certitude what the 21st century will hold for nuclear power. Still, the issues that will form its future are slightly clear. The goal of this paper is to study the possible role of nuclear energy in the formation of sustainable development in Europe, on the basis...
The future of nuclear energy: The European Energy Policy - publié le 15/03/2011
Case study - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
It is hard to forecast with any certitude what the 21st century will hold for nuclear power. Still, the issues that will form its future are slightly clear. The goal of this paper is to study the possible role of nuclear energy in the formation of sustainable development in Europe, on the basis...
Renewable energies: Is the European economy turning green?
Case study - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
In 2008, Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger declared that "The energy challenge is one of the greatest tests for us all. Putting our energy system onto a new, more sustainable and secure path may take time but ambitious decisions need to be taken now. To have an efficient, competitive and...
« The lack of progress in tackling climate change internationally is due to states' economical interests ». Discuss.
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem". Seems like Reagan's statement should be inverted today, and the notion of Government amplified. In fact, in the last decades, states started realizing that they had to face a much broader...
The role of the new social networks in the protection of environment in California
Dissertation - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
Do the new social networks represent a lever of environment conservation and sustainable development?We know that social networks have witnessed an explosive growth since 2005. More and more companies are dealing directly with these websites which regroup sizable chunks of the population. With...
Deforestation in Indonesia: Is Sustainable Palm Oil Possible?
Thesis - 12 pages - Ecology & environment
Indonesia is an archipelago in Southeast Asia; its geography is defined by over 17,000 islands, the surface area is about 1,920,000 square kilometers, and its capital is Jakarta. Indonesia has an estimated population of 230 million people and a GDP worth $ 540,274 million . The secular and...
The Greenhouse Effect: Definition, Causes, and Consequences
Thesis - 15 pages - Ecology & environment
Environmental hazards such as storms, tropical cyclones, droughts, etc. have been affecting us for generations. In France, the temperature reached its highest point last summer and reports showed that the August of 2003 experienced a high heat wave with the most dramatic consequences: the...
Environmental risks and sustainable development
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
In 2006, Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore released a movie called “An inconventient Truth: Global Warming”, and this movie basically talks about the risks associated with development. In 2007, they were honored with the Noble Peace award by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) faces the challenge of sustainable development
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The stakes by which the problems raise the concept of sustainable development, such as environmental protection and the fight against poverty, seems to represent an obstacle for further liberalization in trade as a factor in its favor. However, during the second half of the nineteenth century, it...
The American diplomacy around the protocol of Kyoto
Essay - 15 pages - Ecology & environment
During the past forty years, the issue of global warming has gradually been established as the priority of environmental debates to become a major issue in our society for the twenty-first century. The proliferation of conferences, books, and films on this subject reflect the growing interest....
The future of the energy supply: How will we meet the global demand?
Thesis - 15 pages - Ecology & environment
In this report, both the actual energy demand and future energy demand will be analyzed. World population is actually estimated at six billion people, but in 2025 it could be almost 7.3 billion to reach 9.4 billion in 2050. Maybe, as the population trend shows, energy supply would not satisfy...
Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman: A book review
Book review - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Friedman's book Hot, Flat and Crowded motivates change and action for businesses, consumers, and political forces by increasing their awareness of trends, behaviors, and regulations that hazardously impact economic and environmental conditions. The book evokes a sense of urgency to preserve...
How expensive are green jobs?
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
There's a lot of talk in the press these days about the cost of green jobs. The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, is pushing for bold investment in renewable energies and technologies that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He is praising the incentives that have been put in...
Birth Control Pill: Research and Development
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
Technology innovations are not neutral; instead they embody the values of their inventors. Those who hold power exercise their influence over technological preference and contraceptive technology is no exception. Active members of the Birth control movement in the West began to press for the...
The European support to sustainable development and adaptation to climate change
Thesis - 11 pages - Ecology & environment
“The Union shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the...
BUY NOTHING ACTIVISTS
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Are we ready to join the buy nothing day activists? We must say that our overconsumption is causing lots of damages nowadays. Buy nothing day is an international day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. Buy nothing day activists want to highlight the environmental and...
Energy efficiency: The UK potential for wind power
Thesis - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
In the present economical and ecological context, finding new, cheaper and less polluting power sources is a major issue. No miracle solution can replace fossil energies and nuclear power. However, some sources of energy could be interesting alternatives. Among these, wind power appears to be...
Carbon Offsetting: Energy Efficiency
Internship report - 12 pages - Ecology & environment
Carbon Offsetting is a way to reduce our CO2 emissions by funding projects such as building a wind farm etc. Indeed, the C02 is one of the causes of global warming. There are two types of carbon offsetting, such as the compliance carbon offsetting and the voluntary carbon offsetting. The...
