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08 oct. 2007
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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...

08 oct. 2007
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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...

25 juil. 2007
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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...

25 juin 2007
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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...

13 juin 2007
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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...

21 mai 2007
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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...

07 mai 2007
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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...

02 mai 2007
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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...

12 févr. 2007
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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,...

19 juil. 2006
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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...

07 févr. 2006
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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...

23 janv. 2006
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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...

03 mai 2005
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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...

01 avril 2003
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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...

26 févr. 2002
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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...