Air pollution: The case of China
Case study - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
According to Vallero, air pollution is “the presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects.”(3) The above statement is indeed true in case of China. The presence...
Global air pollution and global climate change
Thesis - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
We know that the Earth's climate has changed many times throughout its existence. There have been both ice ages and long periods of warmth. Many natural factors, such as volcanic eruptions, energy absorbed from the sun, and changes in the Earth's orbit have long had an influence on the Earth's...
Impacts of air pollution on forest ecosystems
Essay - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
Air pollution problems are international in scale. All forests worldwide experience some degree of air pollution exposure above preindustrial levels. Atmospheric transport processes do not recognize geographic borders, but sources of pollutants, the pollutants of...
Industrial Air Pollution: Effects and Efforts to Contain
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
As a capitalist nation, we are constantly seeking to foster the growth of our economy and overall development. Our industrious nature has led to an industrial presence that makes the burning of fossil fuels our pinnacle source of energy, and a requirement for fueling our economic stability....
Genetic aspects of air pollution and climate change
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
The ?rst incidences of air pollution impacts on the genetic constitution of forest tree populations were those documented near point sources of sulfur dioxide (SO2), particulates, and heavy metals. Localized extinction of forests around these point sources was documented by...
Anti-Pollution and air/water quality in Canada
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The object of this brief note is an environmental issue. It concerns the anti-pollution policy and the means to improve air and water quality in Canada. Indeed, this problem touches the entire Canadian population. Here, there is no discrimination concerning class, gender or race:...
Water Pollution in San Diego
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Environmental issues pose a threat to humanity. Therefore, must urgent measures to ensure there is a permanent solution for this predicament (Biggs, Trent W., and Heather D'Anna 627). It is obvious that the environmental issues will have an impact on future generations if the present cohort fails...
The application of an EIB to address environmental challenges in urban Belgium
Thesis - 96 pages - Finance
Cities face increasing environmental challenges including, but not limited to; air pollution, CO2 emissions, energy, transport and waste management. The success of Social Impact Bonds (SIB) by solving social issues in a public-private partnership has been the driver for the...
The Climate Crisis
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
The world is plagued with many complex issues related to food insecurity, poverty, pollution, and the climate crisis, which require urgent action to mitigate the far-reaching consequences. Despite the prevalence of techno-optimistic solutions and related perspectives on addressing global...
Critical annotations
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
This exercise is a critical annotation of each of the following texts: - Davis (2007) The Granary of Rome. Ch. 1 and 6 - Merchant (2003) Shades of Darkness: Race and Environmental History - Nash (2006) Inescapable Ecologies. Ch. 4 - Brown (2019) Chernobyl. An environmental History of the...
Why do motorbikes pay significantly lower fees on toll roads in Melbourne?
Case study - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
From basic economic perspective, this may appear like a needless revenue loss for CityLink charging biker's less than half price for using the toll roads. However, charging them as such makes economic sense, which raises approximately $15.80 and $21.40 for car and heavy commercial vehicles...
Air transportation and climate change
Essay - 4 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...
Transportation and Retail Industries - The Sustainability Issue
Essay - 4 pages - Green marketing
Sustainability in global industries is a very important subject to focus on. All of these industries are facing different sustainability-related problems and challenges that they need to overcome to protect the planet for future generations. As part of the problems, we can find greenhouse-gas...
An overview of esoteric pollution EMI-EMC
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Water , air and Sound pollution is well within the human perception but esoteric pollution of frequency spectrum called Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) has to address in today's world of computerization where the emphasize is on high band width / high speed along with...
You cannot regulate your way down to 'Net-Zero' but you can invest to get there
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The European Commission has published a new communication on Better Regulation in 2021, aiming to improve policy-making processes in the EU. This communication demonstrates that the Commission is on the right track by renewing and better regulating the agenda, mainstreaming the Sustainable...
Sustainable remote work practices for progressive reductions of road traffic emissions
Dissertation - 68 pages - Ecology & environment
Although technology developments brought about possibilities for all work which could be done remotely to be done remotely within the Netherlands, limitations for additional and sustainable implementation of remote work practices remained. Secondary research sheds light on the extent to which...
Environmental issues in the air transport industry
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The air transport industry uses air craft to transport people, cargo, and mail. Civil aviation includes two major categories; first one is the scheduled air transport, which includes passenger and cargo flights operating on regularly-scheduled routes; and general aviation,...
Environmental pollution: A growing problem
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Environmental Studies (ES) is an inter-disciplinary area of study incorporating the social and scientific aspects of nature and natural resources. The major aim of Environmental Studies is to project the inter-relationships between living beings-especially human beings- with the surrounding...
Air France : Marketing and communication report (2006)
Case study - 37 pages - Services marketing
As part of the Marketing Communication project, a team comprising Antoine Cadoret, Nicholas Dawson, Charlotte Fouquet and Stephanie Mazel decided to conduct a study of the communication mix of a European leading airline company: Air France. The purpose of this project is to explore and...
What is meant by the acid rain game? Describe an efficient strategy for tackling this transboundary pollution problem
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
In this essay I will outline what acid rain is in terms of its causes and effects. In this context I will then explain what is meant by the acid rain game and its implications. I will then outline an efficient strategy for tackling this transboundary problem. Finally I will offer a possible...
Change in management at Air France
Case study - 29 pages - Management
Driving organizational change in a company revolve around six themes. In this document we will take into account the external and internal sources of change, the steps through which it passes, the context, and the forces involved, to finally determine the type of change and explain the phases of...
Strategy of Air France: Analysis and recommendations (2009)
Case study - 38 pages - Business strategy
Born on August 30, 1933 by the consolidation of major French airlines ‘Societe Generale Air Transport,' Air Union, the International Company for Air Navigation, Air East and ‘Compagnie Generale Aeropostale', Air France formed the largest French airline...
Digital society
Course material - 33 pages - Sociology & social sciences
ICT is a major technological change whose effects have only begun to be measured for about ten years. Beyond the appearance of new activities related to ICT, such as start-ups, online shops for example, digital technologies have considerably facilitated the production and exchange of information....
Hover through fog and filthy air": Scottish Play, Scottish Plague Tim Hamilton *English 764* Fall 2010
Essay - 12 pages - Literature
Macbeth. The very mention of the title of Shakespeare's most supernatural tragedy sends shivers down the spine of all too many theatre practitioners and enthusiasts, with good reason. Since Richard Burbage first stepped onto the stage of the Great Hall at Hampton Court to play the cursed tyrant...
Environmental law - The examples of Canada and the United Kingdom
Case study - 3 pages - Environment law
There is a high amount of litigation related to water, considering that Canada is one of the major fishing sites. Federal fisheries act was made in order to prevent water pollution by prohibiting discharge or deposition of substances which can be harmful to aquatic animals. The UK is...
Ecocide in Ukraine
Presentation - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Today I'm going to talk about a worrying subject: the ecocide in Ukraine. Before starting, I chose this topic because I am very sensitive to environmental and human problems. And for me the situation in Ukraine is a concrete example. Ecocide is a term used to describe the massive and...
Auto pollution: No solution?
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
For the sake of natural resources and the welfare and prosperity of the population, motor vehicle fuel economy and emission standards must be raised. The dangerous and complicated problems that we face both today and tomorrow with motor vehicles should not be ignored and cast aside, but solved as...
Market Study - Sustainable tourism
Market study - 8 pages - Tourism marketing
The tourist is, according to UNWTO, a traveller who travels away from his usual place of residence for at least one night and a year at most. The tourism market has a significant weight in the world economy, and its influence is not about to end, as it is constantly growing. France is the number...
Global Warming: Causes and Chemistry of Climate Change
Course material - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
This report serves as an overview of important aspects related to global warming and climate change. It touches on the relevant international organization and authorities in the field of climate change, forecasts of temperature increases, greenhouse gases, atmospheric chemical reactions and...
Cigarettes and taxation in USA
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
With a country that is plagued with many preventable illnesses and people that are leading seemingly unhealthier lifestyles by the day, it is no surprise that cigarettes contribute much of the nation's ills. Due to the damage caused by tobacco use; especially cigarettes, such as the increased...
