Environmental Studies Essays

Veganism: Popular Fad or Future of Sustainable Agriculture?
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Introduction: In the 15,000 year span of agrarian history there has never been such a dramatic shift in the way the world eats as there has been in the past few decades. With rising rates of meat consumption c...

Florida Panther’s Conservation Status
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Introduction:  The Florida Panther (Puma concolor coyri) is a subspecies of Puma concolor commonly known as mountain lion, cougar, or panther. The Florida panther is a large, carnivorous member of the Fel...

Impacts of Water Scarcity and Resolution Strategies
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Introduction: Clean Water and Sanitation Today, humanity has become acutely aware of all past and present errors that are associated with the wrong handling of nature. This is due to the fact that mo...

Arguments For and Against Pipelines
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Introduction: Why are people against pipelines?  Energy policy has always been a contentious topic in the United States. Many individuals just pick a side because of how their party chooses rathe...

Water Quality Problem of Groundwater Pollution
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Introduction:   WATER QUALITY ENGINEERING ABSTRACT This paper is detailed on the water quality problem of groundwater pollution. Importance of groundwater, and how much we rely ...

Water Quality and Health Issues in Third World Countries
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Introduction: ABSTRACT Water is an inevitable part of any living beings. Water is the basic necessity for any human being, living in any corner of the world. In fact, human body is primarily water. Th...

Climate Change in Need of Government Intervention
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Introduction:  Devastation continues at a Global level in the wake of the many natural disasters that have occurred in just the past several months of this year. In the United States alone, desolation has...

Climate Change and the Dire Future of Forest Fires
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Introduction: Forest fires are the result of a combustion reaction involving oxygen, heat, and fuel, and burn on average 2.3 million hectares of Canada’s forest each year (SciShow, 2014; Van Wagner, 2015). T...

Overview of the Flint Water Crisis
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Introduction: What is the issue? The Flint water crisis is one of the leading cases of environmental injustice impacting one of the nations poorest communities. Flint, Michigan is a perfect example of...

State and International Organization Roles in Mitigating Climate Change
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Introduction: Is international action to mitigate climate change possible? What role might states and international organizations play in helping or hindering such an outcome?   Introduc...

The Sustainable Development Goals, Violence, Women’s, and Children’s Health
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Introduction: Chapter Number and Title: Claudia García-Moreno & Avni Amin (2016), The Sustainable Development Goals, Violence, Women’s, and Children’s Health: Bulletin of World Health Organ; 94:396–...

World Commission on Environment and Development Strategies
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Introduction: Humankind is now entering into the first decades of the 21st century with three outstanding features: sustainable development as the strategic development objective of the whole world, integratio...

Unequal Distribution of Environmental Risks and Hazards in Portland, Oregon
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Introduction: Introduction According to many scholars, environmental hazards throughout history have been disproportionately impacted onto disadvantaged communities (Taylor 2014, Smith 2005, Stroud 19...

Ecological Effects of Microplastics on Marine Food Webs
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Introduction:  The accelerated use of plastics and their by-products during the last century has resulted in the increased contamination of animal habitats. The consummation – a modern societal issu...

Impact of Globalization and Population Increase on Climate Change
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Introduction: Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure  Globalization and Automation Introduction Globalization and Automation are referred to as two megatrends which are influe...

Does Sustainable Development Address Environmental Issues Adequately?
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Introduction: Critically examine if the concept of sustainable development provides a strong basis for addressing the most pressing environmental issues Introduction Sustainable development i...

Environmental Impacts of Acidic Drainage on Gold Mining Sites
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Introduction: “Consider an environmental impact that mining has on mining sites. What environment risk management measures can ensure the project operates most successfully for all stakeholders? Limit your s...

Analysis of Strategies to Reduce Single-Use Plastics
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Introduction: Introduction According to the United Nations Environment Programme (2018), the impact of single-use plastic has had a devastating effect on our oceans, landfill, and our health, yet desp...

Strategies for India's Solar Power Targets
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Introduction: Literature Review India has an ambitious plan of 100 GW[1] of solar power by 2022. In May 2017, the solar tariffs in an auction conducted by Solar Corporation of India (SECI) touched ~US...

Social and Economic Barriers to Ethical Living
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Introduction: Is ethical living possible? What are the social and economic barriers which may prevent us from ensuring that everyone has a chance to live ‘ethically’? Living ethically has been a ...

To What Extents Are Market-based Environmental Policy Instruments Replacing Command-and-control Regulations?
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Introduction: In traditional environmental governance, command and control (C&C) regulations were viewed as the popularist method of environmental regulation, and up to the 1970s, the idea of apportioning ...

Modern Conservation and the History of Colonial Hunting and Tourism
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Introduction: Modern Conservation is directly descended from colonial hunting and tourism. To be able to understand how early hunting and tourism came to become what we now know as modern conservation...

Laurence Harbor Lead (Pb) Contamination
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Introduction:  The event of concern is the Raritan Bay Slag Site or Laurence Harbor which is located in Old Bridge Township. The contaminant of concern is Lead. The elevated Lead levels started in the lat...

Strategies and Values of Preserving Nature
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Introduction: OVERVIEW The Anthropocene epoch has enormous consequences in nature that need to be addressed Conservation is becoming more important to sustain modern societies livel...

Comparison between George Perkins Marsh and Aldo Leopold
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Introduction:  It goes without saying that human beings have a responsibility to preserve the land in any way possible to save the natural functions that the ecosystem provides for us. Different people, t...