River Case Studies Samples For Students

Abstract

The Crown and Waikato Tainui has been having conflicting standards in the management of the Waikato River. The report is basically giving details on the background of the different stands that each team has pertaining the river and how the conflict resolution was approached.
Tainui believes that the river lies in their ancestral land and that the Crown has not right interfering with the management of the river and its resources. This initiated the need for a deed settlement between the two parties. The deed settlement was signed in august 2008 and this brought the genesis of shared management ...

Overview

The second half of summer, 1982. Five women were found strangled to death at the Green river banks in King County, Washington. During the investigation, the detectives found out that all they were prostitutes. They were working nearby. All the women were announced to be lost for some time already. This was only the beginning. In the next several years, more and more girls have been found along the Green River banks and in the woods nearby. If the first five murders made investigators suspect a serial killer in the King County, now there was no doubt about that. Sometimes ...

Ok Tedi Copper Mine

The Ok Tedi Copper Mine is located in Papua New Guinea. It is an open-pit gold and copper mine, named as such because it is near the Ok Tedi River. Mining gold and copper out of the pit have caused widespread social and environmental harm to the atmosphere around the Ok Tedi Copper Mine. Located near a river, the discharge and runoff of the mine have negatively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of residents in over one-hundred villages living downstream from the mine. The people are now suffering because of the placement of the mine, but also ...

Question 1

The type of flood occurred at Tarbela Dam around July 29th was an overbank flooding; the high precipitations filled the river Indus, the water within the river reach peak discharge and overflows its river banks and spreads across the surrounding areas.

Question 2

The Chashma Barrage experienced twenty five floods as outlined below.
28-Jul-10 643.30
29-Jul-10 645.40
30-Jul-10 640.30
31-Jul-10 640.00
1-Aug-10 640.00
3-Aug-10 640.00
4-Aug-10 640.00
5-Aug-10 641.00
6-Aug-10 641.00
7-Aug-10 640.40
8-Aug-10 640.00
9-Aug-10 640.00
10-Aug-10 639.20
11-Aug-10 639.00
12-Aug-10 639.00
13-Aug-10 639.00
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This Case Study paper includes four examples of cases concerning agricultural runoff and water pollution, preceded by a section defining NPS pollution and detailing its various known causes. The four case studies were intentionally chosen from different parts of the world with quite different environmental conditions. First was the Lower Bhavani River basin in India – an extremely rural area where fairly primitive agricultural methods are employed by villagers living in basic conditions. The second example was the Rhine valley in Europe; a highly developed and industrialized part of the world. Third of the examples used was the Lower Fraser Valley in ...

Introduction

On the Mother’s Day of 2001, a murder incident occurred at a place called Antietam Creek. The body was found lying lifeless in the bushes of the creek. There was evidence to show that this was purely a murder incident because the manner in which the body of a young man was lying on the ground and also its condition was suggestive as such. At the bottom of a steep hill lay the body, with a pool of blood and evidence of some tussle on the ground. This showed that the young man must have struggled with his assailants before they succeeded in killing ...

The dream with which I used the Dream Dictionary involved the one I saw myself besides a calm river. I was sitting besides the river relaxing and later decided to cross the river in order to get to a city across the river, which I never did. This was because as I tried crossing the river, the bridge all over sudden disappeared, and it was in that shock that I woke up.
Dream Dictionary indicated that seeing such a dream is an indication that one is going with the flow. It means that one is allowing life to flow away, and ...

Abstract

Wayne Bertram Williams was an American national living in Atlanta, Georgia was who was suspected of killing two men as well as 28 to 30 other murders in the city. Many of the bodies he is suspected of killing were dumped by the roadside. The killer was meticulous and did not leave any evidence but for some fibers on the bodies of the victims. Wayne Bertram Williams was arrested on the James Jackson Parkway Bridge of the Chattahoochee River where the bodies were being dumped after the police heard a splash in the river. The prosecution of Wayne Bertram ...

KU Version March 2011

At the end of the case study, the scholar will be able to:
Identify the steps of the investigation of an outbreak;
Describe the characteristics of an outbreak in terms of time, place and person;
Use descriptive epidemiological data to generate hypotheses;
Use analytical epidemiological data to test hypotheses;
Formulate recommendations for the control of an outbreak.
Part A cluster of acute hepatitis in Provo, Utah
Provo is a large municipality located in the North of Utah, close from the border with Wyoming and Idaho. The population of Provo was 6,185 in ...

Question 1

According to Trevino and Nelson (2011), stakeholders refer to individuals or parties affected by an organization’s business and actions. Additionally, stakeholders also have an interest in what the business does and how it carries out its activities (Trevino and Nelson, 2011). The stakeholders in this situation include the people suffering from onchocerciasis or river blindness, World Health Organization, shareholders of the Merck and Co, the employees of the company, their families, the media, and the government. Role-playing would be used as a means of understanding the ethical dilemma at hand (Trevino and Nelson, 2011). That is what it would ...

Merck and Its CSR

Facts
River Blindness is a disease affecting people in some of the poorest countries in the world, in Africa and Latin America. In 1978, an estimated 340,000 people have gone blind and about 18 million were infected with the disease. Dr. William Campbell discovered a possible use for ivermectin: It can be developed into a cure for River Blindness. He thus sent a memo to Dr. Vagelos requesting funds to develop the new product. The problem is that the product cannot be profitable. The target communities are not among the company’s target markets. Since these communities are ...

Statutory issue: Do the activities of KPL fall within the meaning of Section 13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1889 to constitute as “discharge or deposit any matter of any kind in the navigable water” holding it liable for violation?
The main argument for the plaintiff is that it cannot be held liable for violating Section 13 since its activities does not fall within the meaning of “discharge of any matter of any kind in the navigable water” as provided by law. In this particular case, KPL draws water at normal temperatures from the river in ...

Business Ethics

In the United States, drug companies enjoy a high-profit margin. It means that when purchasing different commodities, Americans incur high costs, unlike Canadians or Europeans. The drug industry has been noted as the most profitable sector in the economy in the last two years. The United States drug prices do not indicate a fair and competitive market since they sell only a handful of essential drugs with the aim of establishing a top selling market (Williams, 1985). Pharmaceutical companies have ethical responsibilities that contrast with that of small biotechnology organizations regarding research and innovation. For instance, CV Therapeutic is ...

Ethics is the accepted code of conduct (principles of wrong or right) that control the behavior of an individual, an organization or group of a profession. It is always considered to be a factor of variation in politics, economic growth, culture and legal systems. Particular practices might be unethical when viewed by other countries' standards. Most common ethical issues are related to human rights, labor standards, and financial standards, accounting standards, environmental regulations, moral obligations, and corruption.
The international business setting, through its economic and cultural diversity, time and again exposes foreign executives to significant challenges. On a short ...

Rail construction is a sequence of steps that takes laborious amounts of time in each step and finally results in a wonderful and safe system for transport for many decades to come that requires minimal maintenance over that period. The first step in the construction process is the approval for new line itself. This is typically the responsibility of the government to do it. Once a approval is given for rail connectivity between two points then the role of engineering kicks in.
The first step in the process is the alignment. Alignment is nothing but the path in which the track ...

Lion Nathan Breweries and the China market

Q1. The Porter's Five Forces concept is a unique and powerful tool for determining the position of a particular business with respect to its competitors. The Five Forces is very significant as it helps to analyze both, the strengths of the current competitive position and the strength of the position in which the organization is considering moving into China market (Porter, 2008). Lion Nathan or LN was an international brewer basically with presence in two countries Australia and New Zealand. LN operated in these countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands and more than 10 breweries. In the year 1993, LN ...

Slide 2: RIVER BLINDNESS

In the case of Merck and its solution to countering the River Blindness disease thriving in many portions of Africa, Middle East and South America, the ethical system at work is the cooperation between public and private organizations on the matter of eradicating said disease.

Slide 3: THE SOLUTION OF MERCK

Merck has developed its own cure on River Blindness (also known as onchocerciasis) called Mectizan in order to help eradicate the adverse effects of the diseases on both the lives of people and the economy of the places where they reside.

Slide 4: THE SOLUTION OF MERCK

Slide 5: ALTERNATIVES TO THE MERCK MODEL
For the first alternative, devolution ...

Introduction

There have been increased awareness on ethical business and environmental degradation within the recent decades. Just like human, organizations are held responsible for their actions. This paper explores the ethical theories and concepts as they apply to the case study of the OK Tedi Copper Mine. The new CEO of BHP, Paul Anderson had just come in office and faced with the task of managing what people had referred to as the world’s greatest ongoing “environmental disaster” (Velasquez, 2012).

Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is a normative ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the consequences or outcomes ...

Business

The basic fact and the main fact about this case is that the Broken Hill Proprietary
Company Limited (BHP) is causing the environmental pollution from their operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Other important facts are that the BHP is contributing and compensating the effecting parties and contributing in the GDP growth of the PNG. However, the important fact is that the BHP is still working and disposing their wasters under the Interim Tailings License Act which was passed in the year 1984.
The main ethical issue at hand at the moment is that the government of PNG is ...

In the Supreme Court of US two states, Rhode Island and Massachusetts had disputes over boundaries. The latter claimed ownership for more than two decades, but later, the former challenged the ownership in the Court of Law. In 1962, the State of Massachusetts was supposed to own the territory, which stretched three miles along Charles River in the south. One year later, Rhode Island received a grant bounded by the same river, but to the southern line of Massachusetts boundary. Failure to issue an express order of the crown was because no one expected the boundary to lead to disputes ...

Facts

On the evening of May 18 1985, the defendant and his friend Peter Maskorich were drinking. They left the bar at around midnight. In the early morning hours, the defendant and Maskorich wound up racing the defendant’s boat in Sacramento River. There were no floatation devices in the boat. At 3am, Gary Bingham heard noise and he went outside and saw a boat with two people inside at the bend in the river. Rodney and Susan Logan who were fishing also saw an aluminium boat with two men in it. The boat had no running lights and it was ...

Culture can be expressed best in the complex interactions of values, attitudes and behavioural assumptions of the society. Culture therefore, is the characteristics of particular groups of people defined by everything from knowledge, religion, social habits, art, law, morals and any other capabilities and character acquired by a person as a member of a given society. For a given culture to be an important concept in the management studies, we should be able to understand the culture concept and familiarise our self with it. (Francesco and Gold 1969).Therefore in this paper, I have discussed various dimensions of managing culture in order to ...

Merck’s Roy Vagelos funding research to develop treatment for river blindness was faced with controversies in the Latin America and the world at large. The reason why people were in support of the research was that it would save human lives that had been greatly affected by the worms that bred in rivers. The other thing is that the research would take the research industry in another level. This is because river blindness was a disease that had no cure and the getting cure for the river blindness would be of immense impact to the industry and world at ...

Family structure affects the rate of poverty among societies. The number of parents in a family gets linked with the availability of quality economic and human resource available to a child. Families headed by single parents are likely to be economically vulnerable as compared to married couples. Single parent families have only one wage earner and this provides a reason for economic vulnerability (Alesina & Glaesar 42). Poverty caused by the family structure impacts on both the parent and children. The age of children also affects poverty rates. Families composed of young children who are unable to provide labor have higher poverty levels. ...

Introduction

The book, the Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the books of Robert Asprey. It is a summary of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, basically as a man and finally centers on his life as the king and the emperor of France. In this book however, Asprey tries so much to dwell on the military life of Bonaparte and thus avoids more issues on his child life. The author of this book tries so much to expound on the abilities and the achievements of this ruler. As a statesman, a husband, a lover and as a king, the author tries to bring the personality ...

Introduction

The book, the Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the books of Robert Asprey. It is a summary of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, basically as a man and finally centers on his life as the king and the emperor of France. In this book however, Asprey tries so much to dwell on the military life of Bonaparte and thus avoids more issues on his child life. The author of this book tries so much to expound on the abilities and the achievements of this ruler. As a statesman, a husband, a lover and as a king, the author tries to bring the personality ...

The world has a variety of geographical features located in different places and which not only act as attraction sites but end up defining the commodities that come from the place. Uniquely, every part of the world has striking geographical features, and this makes the whole world attractive. In addition to the features, the world has major cities that stand out from the rest of the towns, and which also end up dictating not only the economic activities but also the type of people in the area.
Additionally, Africa is a large continent that is rich in diversified cultures, ...

There are several legal issues arising from the third scenario. First is whether the employer, the Lazy River, Inc. is liable for Lucy’s failure to adhere to reasonable commands directed to her by her boss Mike. The second issue is whether the sixteen (16) year old worker was an independent contractor, if so, whether it is the employer or the hiring party that is liable for injuries to the independent contractor. The third issue is that of negligence. That is, whether the company was negligent for failure to foresee that the toxic chemicals present in water could cause ...

Alternative 1: Invest $20000 in the NewestHighTech.com when it goes public.
This is a very good investment option for Dara. It is not as conservative as the investment choices that she’s made in the past. There is an element of risk when an investor puts their cash into a one year old company that has had some favorable press when it received its early stage financing and, then more good press when its chips were accepted by a major cell phone manufacturer. The risk with a new company is that it may not be able to fulfill its orders, or the ...

Management

Management

Overview of the Home Depot and Interconnected Retail

The Home Depot and Interconnected Retail is one of the world's largest improvement chains. The management of the organization that included the senior leadership on the ground majored on a discussion that would best navigate the new and interconnected world of retail. The organization was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, where it first opened its first stores in 1979. The interconnections that have been created have worked to ensure that the organization grows to many areas to capture a wide platform of consumers who are considered as the main factors within the supply chain.
In an effort to create a change ...

The Egyptian Civilization is one of the famous river-concentrated society that flourished as a result of human’s capability to adapt to changes in his environment. The civilization flourished near the lower reaches of the Nile River, an important source of water for their everyday use and irrigation purpose (Janick). The success of this civilization is also a result of their ability to cultivate and allocate a parcel of lands for agriculture. It can also be said that agriculture enabled the advancement of the Egyptian society into a state-level hierarchy in which complex social customs were developed. With the aid of agriculture the ...

When working on an antiparasitic drug for animals, a senior research scientist at Merck determined there might be a way to develop the drug to cure River Blindness in people. This condition was caused by parasitic worms in many third world countries. This condition can lead to uncontrollable itching which leads to skin disfigurement and other skin relate problems, blindness and some cases suicide. Millions in Africa and other third world nations are affected.
While a treatment or cure for the disease would ease the suffering of a large number of people, the research and development necessary to come up with a formula ...

Since early 1990s, there have been issues relating to water problems, conflicts, and compromises over water. Projects have been established to make appropriate documents relating the issues, problems and solutions to the west conflicts and settlements over water. This research currently will offer on various ways the government handling the problem of water rights of Native Americans tribes in Arizona. These tribes include the Hopi, Navajo, and the Pima tribes in Arizona. The group participates on Federal Negotiation team as activities intensify and more progress made for these teams. Thus, it is the drive of this project to digitize ...

Introduction

The Virgin Group is a chain of businesses that are run separately under the aegis and leadership of Sir Richard Branson. The Group has vast interests in various fields such as entertainment, travel and lifestyle among other key fields. Indeed, the company’s most distinctive resource is its chief executive Richard Branson and its people. Branson’s charismatic style makes the company stand out. In fact, the entrepreneurial flair of the chief executive gives the company the competitive edge as other companies are unable to replicate this in the affairs of their companies. The Virgin people also constitute human resource ...

The stakeholders in the scenario are the fishes in the lake. Due to the increased and continuous toxic from the industries that drain in to the river and into the lake, the fish might be declared unsafe for human consumption. This is according to the report quoted in the newspaper from a scientist from the university and an environmental group is watching it. Another stakeholder affected in the proposed application of the new technology is the company. Due to its small budget, implementation of such a project will reduce its profits.
Some ethical question asked is whether the companies should ...

Most shooting incidents in trailer and action movies portray a backward displacement of the victim (sometimes violent) over a large distance. Real life witnesses however may not give a similar account of the event. Viewers may also be skeptical on the way the incident is portrayed in movies. The effect of the bullet on the target can however be calculated from simple concepts in physics given the right or (reasonably approximated) quantities. The main concepts are those of momentum and energy conservation.
Firearms such as guns are meant to deliver destructive energy to the target with minimal energy input by the ...

Early Childhood Development for a Mentally Retarded Child

Early childhood development is a common stage in human life, which defers in individuals child pace brought about by his/her interaction with the environment. Several factors influence children emotional, cognitive and physical changes some posing challenges to children development. In order to gain insight into children’s behavioral, thinking and strategies a step by step careful observation of the changes are considered for investigation bearing in mind the ages and sex of the children (Swift, 2005).
Considering a 4-year-old child (still in early childhood), being is introduced to Brooklyn Flatbush day care with the conditions that he is mentally challenged.

Observations and explanation

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Ray Betzell handling a general managerial post of a business partnership in the past five years between Rocky River Industries based at Ohio and Shanghai Fabric, LTD. Chai Wai, was his Deputy General manager. Together, in a joint initiative, they started out as representatives of a textile manufacturer based in the United States and another company based in China. Shui was started with the aim of producing coat fabric and dye meant for sale to international sportswear manufacturers, including Chinese market. Paul Danvers, Rocky River’s president, who happened to be Betzell’s boss, happen to have a nagging issue with the current 5% ...

I attended two concerts at the Southern University Symphony Orchestra Hall and the Tulsa Performing Arts Centre in Oklahoma. This is what I observed.
The concert which was performed by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra was certainly a revelation in many respects. It included two Chinese works which have gained considerable fame all over the world and which were quite ideally interpreted by the orchestra. There was also the Brahms Second Symphony for good measure which is one of the most popular romantic works in the repertoire and which is very much a staple part of the orchestra’s routine.
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Introduction

The fundamental knowledge of marketing helps organizations in developing and planning for perfect market entry strategies. Today business environment has many marketing challenges requiring an organization to use a sustainable business model that takes care of the current and future environmental changes. Entrepreneurs should focus on becoming better business people then they are currently are through following a practical approach to management. The study aims at developing a marketing strategy for R.J. Reynolds following the moral reasoning model of Caveat Emptor in order to improve the company productivity. R.J. Reynolds introduced uptown was a cigarette designed for the black smokers but the producing ...

Introduction

This paper provides information on geographical aspects, with focus no urban environment of Frankfurt, Germany with an intention of investigating and analyzing financial and commercial patterns based on size and function of three retail centers. The analysis will involve application Reilly’s retail theory and Christaller’s model of central places (Morris, 118). An understanding of urban environmental issues in cities such as Frankfurt provides a spring board upon which spatial planning can be tailored to meet the social, economic and recreational needs of people.

How do retail patterns vary in different urban areas of Frankfurt am Main, Germany?
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Background Information

Rayan is a three year old girl who was born with a hearing impairment. According to Zirpoli, (2008), a child with a hearing disability finds speech to be imprecise, and Rayan cannot understand any of the speech sounds that are used by people around her. The hearing problem was first discovered by her mother when she brought her from hospital after birth. According to the video ‘A Family Affair’ her mother discovered that she could not wake up after sleeping when disturbances such as drawers and wardrobes are closed. Furthermore, even when the mother played behind her daughter never heard her at all; ...

Introduction

Verizon Communications is one of the greatest leaders that provide wireless and broadband services to wholesale, government business and mass market, headquartered in New York the company boasts to be serving almost hundred million customers. Apart from being wireless network and Internet service provider Verizon Communications is also into the provision of communication, information and entertainment services which are provided through a huge fire optic network and is efficiently providing its services to both domestic and commercial markets across the world.
The company has grown by many folds since this is establishment on June 30, 2000 with a $ 52 billion ...

FIRST MODERN MUSLIM WRITERS

At the last part of the 19th century, a very influential but small group of Muslim thinkers and writers emerged and became the figures of Islamic modernism. Muhammad Iqbal, who also later made an important mark in the modernism of Pakistan, noted that Islamic philosophy has inspired European thoughts yet "Ismaic relisious thorughs have became stagnant.” (Geering, 2003) Other Muslim thinkers also thought about their religion being absoerbed and further developed by the greater scientific and modern infleunces of western thoughts. Hence, religion became a more central facet of modern social and political thoughts.
The following writers are ilustration of ...

4.0 Structural Type that will maximize the Strategic Capabilities of eBay
4.1 Critical analytical discussion of structural theories
4.2. The structural and generic approach strategy

The major determinant into employing a triumphant competitive strategy is identifying the type of structure that a business embraces. There are diverse business strategies and each and every business must fall below a particular structure. It is also very significant to have a knowledge concerning a particular strategy and the conditions under which it functions. Functional structure is a type of structure that is mostly preferred for large business enterprises. Employees working under functional structure are mostly assigned ...

Representatives of Local Company with an Electricity Demand

Introduction

Jefferies brewery is committed towards ensuring that it maintains a good relationship between the company and the local community. The production of quality beer which is produced from environment friendly processes has made it possible for the company to be liked by most locals and customers. The company has been growing over the past few years and a need has developed of the company being involved in some expansion plans. As the company intends to perform an expansion of business, a new site has been identified near Alloa in Clackmannanshire. The proposed area comes under the Forth Area Management Plan. The ...