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Nonrenewable Oil Resource

In ten pages this paper discusses the nonrenewable resource of oil in terms of overdependence and the environmental impact that ha...

Environmental Protection and Competition of the Nuclear Power Industry

that one of the primary obstacles facing the industry is its relationship with the environment. Long (1995, PG) notes:...

Policy and Public Opinion Effects on Nuclear Power

In five pages this paper discusses changing public opinion and how policy regulations regarding environmental protection and costs...

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

her communist sympathies" (Lean 46). On the other hand, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas pronounced Silent Spring to be ...

Distribution and Environmental Issues of the EU and McDonald's

In ten pages this paper examines how the European Union's environmental protection and distribution requirements impacts upon McDo...

Multiple Intelligences and Howard Gardner

In ten pages the multiple intelligences developed by Howard Gardner and their applications are considered in an assessment of the ...

Modernization and Its Detrimental Impact

In six pages modernization and its impact are examined in terms of theory with countries of the third world discussed as they pert...

Environmental Issues and Globalization

In eight pages this paper considers the environmental devastation of increased global oil spills and examines the political impact...

ALUMINA AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY

saving its public image and abiding by the pertinent environmental statutes. This is a condition in which many companies find them...

Overview of an Environmental Plan

by which to apply it to something as significant as environmental degradation. Inasmuch as humanity seeks to attain a better exis...

Environmental Degradation and Big Business

with all of its audiences, starting with employees" (Bovet 30). One of the worst situations to come from the boom of big business...

Freon v. Tetrafluoroethane Refrigeration

ozone layer of the Earth. The ozone layer is the atmospheric layer that protects the planet and its inhabitants from the suns har...

Environmental Effects of De-Icing by Airlines

In five pages the environmental impact as well as the attempts of the airline industry to lessen the negative effects of de-icing ...

Climate of the Earth and the Impact of Volcanoes

This paper discusses how volcanoes impact the climate of the earth and also considers the environmental effects of global warming ...

1996's Oil Spill Off Rhode Island's Coast

seas forced the oil barge "North Cape" into Rhode Islands Nebraska Shoal at Moonstone Beach near South Kingston, Rhode Island, an ...

Southeast Asia Development Post 1997

collapse of many of its financial institutions, loans had been made with insufficient consideration, when the economy collapsed in...

Liability and Environmental Law

being greater than only the surface a survey undertaken in the 1980s in London by the London Waste Regulation Authority. Here the ...

Impacts of Socioeconomic, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors on New Zealanders' Health

to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...

The Importance of Biodiversity

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

Canadian Environmental Conservation and Aboriginal Involvement

from the mountain. Since that time FOCS have taken a variety of initiatives to try and inform the public as to the environmental i...

Media and Environmental Issues

any news interest in the first place: The scientific conviction that global warming is happening and is being caused by man incre...

Definition of Ecological Footprints

consideration how rich countries use trade and technology to import resource they do not possess (Holtzman, 1999). Other factors...

Globalization's Local Effects

to improve social development and economic development prospect throughout the world, easing economic hardship and producing incom...

India and the Negative Impact of Tourism

if the government has to show its best face, and will hide those who live in squalor, thus perpetuating the problem of poverty. T...

Environment and Global Trade

There are intercountry connections. When asking the question of ourselves whether globalization can be sustained, in light of ...

Ozone and its Impacts

growing "hole" in the ozone layer during the mid-1970s, as recently as the late 1990s, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmo...

Groundwater and It Associated Environmental Problems

become more wasteful and the products of modern convenience - such as plastics and Styrofoam - have rendered the earth a dumping g...

Energy Policies of the European Union

has been declining, the level was only 50% of the budget in Framework Programme I that took place between 1984-7, which amounted t...

Overview of the EPA

effort. Still, some spills are so big that they cannot be contained with the limited resources most companies have; that is when ...

Environment and its Influence

them in many powerful ways. For example, as discussed, it has been proven that most people who are raised in poverty, or in a part...