Essays Tagged: "environmental pollution"

An Emerging Use Of Mass Spectrometry

Today, more and more people are becoming aware of environmental pollution, and as a result, the government is taking a more active role in pollution c ... llution clean up and prevention. Government limits on volatile organic compound emissions and other environmental pollutants are lowering, and a need to be able to detect at these limits is rising. Al ... pills/disasters as quickly as possible. To aid in these needs, direct sampling mass spectrometry in environmental screening is being developed as an alternative to traditional mass spectroscopic metho ...

(4 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Globalization And Glocalization

national and multinational corporations, which has the power to prevent industrial-production based environmental pollution, there has to be something to done. As it is said "think global, act local" ... oday's presentation about working mechanism and activism politics of Greenpeace, as a transnational environmental organization, made me clear how effective an organized movement might be, both in loca ...

(2 pages) 30 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Growing environmental issues in Dubai due to the construction craze

mes and improvement in the health indicators of the country its growth has not been totally benign. Environmental pollution is damaging human health, water, air, agriculture and ultimately the whole e ... s. Air, water, and soil-all harmed by pollution-are necessary to the survival of all living things. Environmental pollution is a term that refers to all the ways by which people pollute their surround ...

(5 pages) 33 0 5.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Marine Ecosystem

or coastal and marine ecosystems that are already stressed from human development, land-use change, environmental pollution, and over-fishing. (Eileen Claussen, 2002)Ocean and coastal marine systems a ... easing due to development, pollution and habitat alteration and destruction, as well as and natural environmental stresses such as climate change. Increasingly, world governments are directing their a ...

(6 pages) 35 0 5.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

The Effects of Affluenza on Our Fragile Environment

d as an endorsement of the flow of wealth that causes a division of classes, and loss of financial, environmental and emotional balance. (Graaf, Wann and Naylor, 18) In persons, symptoms of affluenza ... evailing throughout the world: in individuals who have assets. 'Affluenza is an important reason of environmental change, scarcity of biodiversity and the heritage of leaving offspring'. (Science Maga ...

(5 pages) 9 0 0.0 Jan/2011

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Pollution

The hazards of Environmental Pollution on HumanIntroductionImagine a world where the impacts of pollution have caus ... d as an endorsement of the flow of wealth that causes a division of classes, and loss of financial, environmental and emotional balance. (Graaf, Wann and Naylor, 18) In persons, symptoms of affluenza ... revailing throughout the world: in individuals who have assets. Affluenza is an important reason of environmental change, scarcity of biodiversity and the "heritage" of leaving offspring. (Science Mag ...

(5 pages) 15 0 0.0 Mar/2011

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Overconsumption

OverconsumptionOverconsumption by consumers contributes to environmental destruction by not carefully considering a products starting point, and the environmen ... modities, such as automobiles, creates waste. In summary, consuming anything today always generates environmental degradation and pollutants. Yet, of the three factors environmentalists often point to ... and pollutants. Yet, of the three factors environmentalists often point to as being responsible for environmental pollution -- population, technology, and consumption -- consumption seems to get the l ...

(6 pages) 1 0 0.0 Apr/2013

Subjects: Literature Research Papers