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Mammal and Bird Diversity and Global Spatial Patterns

deserts, forests, and saltwater marshes (1995). Ecosystems serve several functions and may affect climate and other things; they a...

Nature Reserves and Design Considerations

and valuable ecosystems, as a whole entity with each plant, animal, and geographic feature interdependent with each other; they w...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Biodiversity and Globalization's Impact

they were the same species, and researchers found 950 different varieties of beetles, where eighty percent of the species had been...

The Impact of Tourism on Biodiversity

Ive seen plenty of people mixing with nature, and nature getting the worst of it," she writes (Waltzman, 2001, p. 36) She...

Animal Kingdom and Biodiversity

limited spatial patterns that exist. Gaston (2000) begins by stating that biodiversity is distributed in a heterogeneous manner t...

Ecoviews Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales by Whit and Anne R. Gibbons

In four pages the biodiversity of the Earth is considered in this report about the text that encourages protection with an emphasi...

Overview of Deforestation

In ten pages deforestation is examined in an overview of humanistic and environmental impacts with the emphasis on forested system...

Environmental Influences and Biodiversity

The second kind is usually called species diversity where there are a number of different species that exist in the world or in s...

Biodiversity

In twelve pages this research paper examines The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson in this consideration of biodiversity and i...

Biodiversity and its Value to America

This paper consisting of five pages emphasizes the importance of biodiversity in a paper that argues in favor of greater commitmen...

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...

Systematic Taxonomy and Biodiversity

classify and categorize things, a need first addressed by Linneus when he first devised the binomial system of nomenclature for li...

Anti Globalization Supporters and the Non Governmental Organizations' Global Network

all the member NGOs there is also Executive Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations, and also the United Nations as this is a ...

Globalization and International Institutions

of "multilateralism" had become unacceptable and restrictive to the freedom that the U.S. thought it deserved (Stewart, 2001). Ou...

Twenty First Century Demands and Meeting Them

slaver and other American citizens acted so savagely at the time. The thinking is that if the United States tried to make amends ...

Human Development Index and the Human Development Program of the United Nations

included many notables who would go on to be awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science (Mendez, 2002). Harry S. Truma...

An Agenda 21 Overview

In three pages the UN concepts for sustainable environmental development are considered and include program goals. Two sources ar...

United Nations' Human Rights Commission

has failed quite miserably in recognizing the ethical significance of human dignity throughout the world, with particular emphasis...

United Nations and the Importance of America's Continuing Presence

far removed from the days when a country could independently govern within its own boundaries in oblivion to what was occurring on...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism's Damage

censured by Congress, McCarthy was the instigator of the investigations of so-called Communists within the government of the Unite...

Improving Human Rights and International Efforts

to the survival of international law, for without this controlling entity there would be no sense of responsibility. With no modi...

Understanding the Relationship Among Nations Through the Use of Game Theory

$50 billion due to the events of September 11, they are reluctant to willingly allow insurance coverage due to the inability to ca...

National Missile Defense Shield and Nuclear Disarmament

"bad guys" also known as "rogue nations." That is part of the conundrum faced by the United Nations and the efforts of those activ...

'Keeping the Peace' with International Law

to provide a structure for keeping the peace. The same is true for international law, the rules of a classroom or the advice of a...

Operational Discharges, the Law, and Marine Pollution

pollution. Maritime law has recognised the need to protect the environment for many years. However, there are still many breaches...

UK and Rights of Children

In ten pages the development and the determination of children's rights in the United Kingdom are considered in a discussion of th...

United Nations Security Council Threats

of challenges that constitute threats to international peace and security, and whether this new trend is a positive development fo...

Uniform Code Value, European Law, Contract Law, and the 'Battle of the Forms'

In 28 pages the impact of globalization on twenty first century European contract law is assessed in a paper trail that covers amo...

Ten Year Planning of United Nations Finances

In seven pages this paper discusses UN funding operational member nation shifts and their implications within the next decade. Si...