Essays on Conserving

The human civilization started from the bottom of the hierarchy among the species and becomes the most supreme or influential specie in the modern times. People have greatly changed the world. The grasslands and forests became cities and agricultural lands. The natural environment has been useful for humans and provides people almost everything they need to survive on earth. The natural environment provided the oxygen, water, food, materials and other resources to humans (Muir 37). However, instead of being thankful to the environment, people have been destroying it in order to acquire additional benefits such as additional land use ...

Sustainability Report: FIA Formula E Hong Kong

Introduction In the modern business world, the issue of sustainability has been a major concern owing to the increased need to ensure environmental conservation. This has been amidst the need to lower costs for the purpose of improving profit and meetings the varying needs of different stakeholders in the business. Moreover, individuals, business organizations, and governments have continually prioritized the economic, social and environmental sustainability of business over any other business goals (Sebastian, 2015). Notably, sustainability has gained importance in the wake of various economic and ecological challenges. Traditionally, corporations around the world have merely been legal entities and ...

INTRODUCTION

Tourism and hospitality have formed one of the world's fast growing industry and expanding at a rapid pace. It is an appealing industry that positively contributed to economic growth of developing and developed countries. The hospitality industry remains the intensive key resource of tourism, hotel such as Waldorf Astoria Beijing takes up the corporate responsibility to balance the social, economic and sustainability needs of their business as well as the communities. This hotel has been awarded Traveler's Choice Awards: - Trip Advisor in 2013 (Waldorf Astoria 2016). If these hospitality industries do not support tourism then a negative impact ...

I hereby certify that this material, which I now submit for assessment as a continuous assessment project in Heat and Mass Transfer on the course 4th year in BEng (Hons) Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, is entirely my own work and has not been submitted in whole or in part for assessment for any academic purpose other than in fulfilment for that stated above.

Abstract

Energy is a depleting resource, making it crucial for people to be knowledgeable in implementing conservation measures at the domestic dwelling level. Scientific advances had made effective energy conservation technology increasingly more accessible due to innovative ...

Policies for Environmental Conservation

The environment is an important part of our every day to day life. Over the years, various campaigns have been put in place in order to address this issue of conserving it, but these steps seem not to be up to the task in order to preserve the environment. One of the downsides of these methods is the lack of proper statutes that would in turn help in this move (Kraft 2015l, p.5). This qualitative analysis will address the issue of the political side of the issue of conservation of the environment. It is the duty of each and ...

Idealism

The US foreign policy needs to stick close of Idealism in the coming future as the past decade has revealed several mistakes by shifting moving astray from original American value of idealism. Idealists consider that America can influence global affairs without making any intervention via their powerful resources. In the last decade, America has intervened in several countries and the costs of these interventions have been too heavy for the American economy. Under the leadership of Barack Obama, American has reduced ground troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Idealists also believe that interventions are needed when important human values need ...

Carbon credit refers to a permit allowing a company or state to emit a ton of carbon dioxide awarded to firms that have decreased the emission of greenhouse gasses below their quota. It follows that a country that produces carbon beyond its quota needs to purchase carbon credits from the energy-efficient ones (those producing less) in what economists call “cap-and-trade.” Although most people believe that the cap-and-trade on carbon emission works, I think this is a false assumption. Some economists opine that funds raised from trading on carbon credits would help them come up with alternative fuels reducing the ...

3.2.1 Political Constraints There are two main political barriers to the sustainable tourism development policy in Korea. Firstly, there is absence of sufficient legislation to support ecotourism as the ministry of Environment relies on the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for developing ecotourism. They required a coordinated initiative from the local authorities, tour operators, and NGOs for implementing their educational programs on resource monitoring, and training facilities for conserving tourism under the Natural Environment Conservation Act article 46.Secondly, entirely centralized decision making has resulted in lack of separation of the tourism development from the land development program, which resulted ...

Business Final Essay

Abstract Global warming is a serious issue that is facing the world today. Despite the tireless efforts put across by various nations to reduce the effect, it remains an issue to be addressed urgently. Many scholars have conducted research with an aim of determining the causes of global warming and have concluded that it is subject to environmental pollution by human beings. Human beings actions such as cutting down trees, burning forests, industries gas emissions, and emissions from vehicle exhaust fumes to the environment are some of the main human actions that accelerate the issue of global warming. This ...

Question 1

What makes a business a sustainable one? Discuss the theory and practices associated with sustainability using examples from your own learning during the module. Sustainable business refers to a business model that has low negative impacts to the environment, society and to the economy at large. A sustainable business is the one that has the ability to meet the triple bottom line (TBL). TBL is an accounting framework that encompasses the social, environmental and financial responsibilities. This termination was coined by John Elkington in his 1994 publications on the triple bottom line. He reflected on the drivers that had ...

Women’s health is an important area to consider. Particularly, the critical stage in their life is the stage when they achieve the motherhood. Numerous care specialists investigated this specific stage so as to gain insights of clinical importance. In such context, the present description deals with a topic, Mammography-Literature review on Breast compression. Briefly, a breast compression refers to ‘breast flattening’ such that the adequate quantity of tissue could be visualized through imaging and tested, during a mammographic examination (Breast Compression,2015) Rationale: Breast compression, at the time of mammography, is one of the various fundamental technical approaches ...

Scientists, the world over, have a common belief that over 90% of earth’s species have become extinct over the last three billion years that the planet has supported life . It is estimated that there have been at least five mass extinctions spread over millions of years at a time. The latest known mass extinction was towards the end of the Cretaceous period. It is most likely so well known because, the event which occurred over 65 million years ago, caused the end of the dinosaurs. Although in terms of the scale it was smaller than the previous four, ...

Briefly, define and describe community resilience as it related to critical incident management. Include in your answer what is meant by “continuity of government.” Community resilience implies the measure of the sustaining capability to make proper use of the entire available resources so as to deal with the diversity of the adverse situations. Kean & Hamilton (2004) asserts that the communities may possess limited resilience if there is no intensity of readiness for catastrophes. Properly prepared communities are described as resilient due to their capability to offer assistance in the prevention of losses incurred as a result of a disaster. ...

The prevalence of breast cancer in the world has prompted various research efforts in an attempt to understand the illness. The devastating result of its development as witnessed in increased mortality has motivated the development of new diagnostic and treatment approaches to be adopted to reduce its prevalence (Lenk, 2009). For this reason, various researchers have focused their studies on how to treat this deadly ailment. Some of these researchers are Gabriel Hortobagyi and Alastair Wood. This paper will carry out a qualitative analysis and critique of their work on the treatment of breast cancer.

Problem Statement

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Sustainable Tourism

Introduction Sustainable tourism is a concept that was developed to scale the image of tourism a notch higher. Tourism revolves around many activities that are environmental, social, economic and culturally oriented and tourism poses both positive and negative impacts on the dimensions above. It is with these effects in mind that the concept of sustainable tourism emerged. The idea was to see tourism have minimal negative impacts on the said aspects and maximize the positive effects it causes to the given destination. The aim was to ensure that tourism contributes positive developments and experiences in the regions where tourism ...

Water is one of the essential components of life. Without water, life becomes difficult, for the people, plants as well as animals. Water exists in different kinds. It exists as a precipitate, liquid, solid (ice), or even water vapor (gas). Water plays various functions in the world; it is the source of life, upon which all living things depend on for survival. Water wastage, as well as the increased levels of water pollution, is a major issue in the world today. Various water bodies have been made dirty and even polluted through different means. Wastes, both industrial and domestic ...

Undeniably, environmental issues have attracted global interest. All economic activities take place in the environment. Therefore, it is imperative to address any matter affecting the environment with urgency. Production activities in industries result in high economic benefits since they supply goods and services that are fundamental to human life. However, most of the environmental problems experienced throughout the world emanate from these activities. The decisions made by governments as well as companies’ managements affect the value of the environment positively or negatively. Therefore, the decision-making process in public or private institutions must consider the environmental impacts. Media plays a ...

Introduction: Depiction of the ‘divine’ in religion

The depiction of the divine in a religion often indicates the true belief and rationale that the religion wants to propagate to its followers and other believers. Hinduism is one of the oldest religions in the world and has a stringent affinity towards the preservation and conservation of ecological and environmental elements. This notion is also evident in the depiction of the divine in all the texts and visuals related to the Hinduism. The fundamental principle on which the depiction of divinity in Hinduism depends upon is that the divine prevails in all the aspects of nature and in ...

Environmental conservation and preservation has been one of the major issues under discussion in the last few decades. Major conferences like the G8 summit have been discussing methods of coming up with different proposals on how to conserve the environment with the participation of every nation Man has been the major cause of the environmental problems that are being experienced in the present times. Global warming and climate change all have their roots on the careless and destructive nature of mankind without due consideration of the consequences of his actions on the future generations. A number of ...