Essays on Wetlands

Paraguay is a landlocked country covering an average of 406750 square kilometers. It is located in South America. Its prominent physical feature of the country is the Paraguay River that separates the country into two regions with distinct differences in climate, and land topography. Industrialization and other human activities have adversely affected the country’s environment. The current environmental issues are water pollution caused by industrial discharges into rivers and streams, deforestation and encroachment into wetlands. The rate of deforestation is quite high due to weak government policies on deforestation and weak implementation of forest protection policies. The country ...

Introduction

Urban sprawl has turned out to be a controversial issue in recent times due to the rate at which green spaces are disappearing in most of the cities, especially in the United States. Nnaemeka-Okeke (2016) describes urban sprawl as the expansion of a community devoid of concern for the environmental impact. In other words, urban sprawl is the uncontrolled expansion of the metropolitan areas. This phenomenon primarily results in the extinction of green spaces and a variety of environmental consequences. Banai and DePriest (2014) maintain that urban sprawl is considered a cause of the climate change, with environmental effects ...

Federal funding for the restoration and protection of coastal wetlands

The federal government has an exclusive jurisdiction over protection and restoration of coastal wetlands that are deemed by DEC as of local importance. The federal government is statutorily authorized to adopt and implement a coastal wetlands protection law wholly or partially within the federal government’s jurisdiction. The law prescribes specific funding and procedures be followed in determining the extent of the coastal wetlands hazard while seeking to assert its jurisdiction over its coastal wetlands. The systems of the coastal wetlands protection necessitate forwarding of the federal government’s regulation to DEC for the establishment of the competence of ...

Introduction

Climate change is among the significant factors impacting ecological diversity on a worldwide scale. The growth of industries and the increasing human population globally have resulted in a rise in the volume of greenhouse gasses, which scientists have argued are the greatest contributors to the menace. The Florida Keys is one of the ecological treasures of the U.S. that continues to be impacted negatively by climate change and anthropogenic activities. This ecological treasure, which is located at the tip of the state of Florida, comprises about 1,700 islands that stretch for more than 200 miles to the west ...

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 ...

Physical Module: Venice

I have chosen the city, Venice for this assignment. As I mentioned in the introduction, I have been in Venice previous summer and I want to explore this site in more detail.

Geomorphology and Climatology

1) How did your selected city, town or village’s physical landscape form? i) What are the geological processes that contributed to the formation of your site? ii) What are the climatic processes that contributed to the formation of your site? The place, where Venice is located, is characterized by the transitional climate type between the continental and Mediterranean climate zones. The place of the city is ...

Physical Module: Venice

I have chosen the city, Venice for this assignment. As I mentioned in the introduction, I have been in Venice previous summer and I want to explore this site in more detail.

Geomorphology and Climatology

1) How did your selected city, town or village’s physical landscape form? i) What are the geological processes that contributed to the formation of your site? ii) What are the climatic processes that contributed to the formation of your site? The place, where Venice is located, is characterized by the transitional climate type between the continental and Mediterranean climate zones. The place of the city is ...

Introduction

Sharp Park, which is named after George Sharp, has a long, rich history. Mr. Sharp owned a more than 400-acre estate that he established with a vision for the San Francisco residents to enjoy recreation in a natural setting. When he died together with his wife, the property was left to the San Francisco City Council under strict instructions that it would only be used for recreational purposes. Sharp Park is in California off Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco. It has existed since 1917; the golf course was established in 1930s. In 1941-internment camp was established ...

Sharp Park named after George Sharp has such a long history. Mr. Sharp had more than 400-acre estate that he established. When he died together with his wife, the property was left to the San Francisco City Council under strict instructions that it would only be used for recreational purposes. Sharp Park is in California off Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco. It has existed since 1917; the golf course was established in 1930's. In 1941-internment camp was established in the park that provided medical service, food, shelter and employment opportunities to San Francisco residents. When Pearl ...

South of the polar Northwest Territories’ (NT) barren tundra lies the province of Alberta. The Canadian boreal forest provides expansive acres of natural habitat landscape for an array of plant and animal species. Ecologically, the Albertan forests and bogs arrest vast quantities of carbon-based pollutants, and their extensive hydrological network filters and purify millions of gallons of water. The boreal is also home to Aboriginal Communities which depend directly on the forest resources for their livelihoods (Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program [RAMP]). Nevertheless, this immaculate natural paradise is central to one of the today’s most contentious issues about the ‘ ...

Introduction

The nationwide pipeline system in the USA has been constructed to transport the natural gas, oil, and refined petroleum products. This constitutes about 71% of the refined products and oils are being transported with about 100% natural gas of the consumption in the USA. The three sectors that are involved in the transportation of these energy products are; operators of the gas transmission pipelines, operators of hazardous liquids in the pipeline and the distributors of gas utilities. An approximate of 299,000 miles and 171,000 miles are offshore gas transmission and liquid onshore pipelines respectively. This operates in ...

Question One

Karen Warren has established a connection between the environmental domination by humans and the subordination of women by stating that domination is in fact connected historically, symbolically and theoretically. According to ecofeminism culture propagated in the study carried out by Warren, man has over the century’s exerted undue dominance over the female species in many cultures in the same manner that they have dominated over nature in all its forms. The notion of ecological feminism which seeks to show that the domination, suppression and relative exploitation of women and the environment all stem out of the same need ...

Do we need that Endangered Species Act?

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was an innovative measure for the future of nature and continues to protect the diversity of the animal and plant kingdom of the United States. This law is important to the survival of all living things because every living organism depends on the life of another living thing to survive, including humans. Aquatic species in Florida are essential for the health of the environment in which it lives. For example, because all creatures and plants depend on each other for survival, when one species is allowed to become extinct, all other species in ...

Introduction

Garden cities, as the name suggest, are planned cities of people living together as a community, with equal places covered by public residences, agricultural lands and parks, and industries. Scholars have termed garden cities as sustainable cities. The garden cities are usually surrounded by green belts, which provide health to the city (Howard, & Osborn, 2005). Garden cities were first adopted in the Great Britain when philosophers tried to find a way to decongest the city.It was due to the overcrowding and congestion in city traffic that forced the development of garden cities.in this perspective, garden cities were designed to ...

1. Introduction The protection of environment is becoming ever more important in the light of rising concerns about the global climate changes and also because of the various factors that can have a negative effect on the environment. The protection of the environment must combine the regulation, legislation and initiatives that increase the good and decrease the bad practices and consequences based on the researches and proven consequences to prevent further possible pollution and degradation of the environment. The paper will focus on the examination of the regulatory agency and environmental protection of the United States and then examined ...

1) Is the current growth rate of the human population sustainable? Explain, using the concept of carrying capacity. According to the current population growth trends and the state of the environmental impact that population growth is in, the human population seems to be growing faster than the environment can sustain, if the population trend does not even out. This is especially true of areas currently in drought, overpopulated, and areas that do not have quality soil, water, and air conditions needed for appropriate food production. For example, in largely populated cities, with little or no soil to grow food ...

Maps can generally be described as representation of the real world through graphics. However, this representation is usually considered an abstraction of the real world phenomenon (Chorley and Peter, 48). This is mainly as a result of the fact that the universe is infinite and it is quite impossible to capture its entire complexities in a single source. Maps can be used to represent various issues for instance: The distribution of human population, temperatures and other aspects of the environment. In the case of representing the distribution of nature in an accurate manner the following maps can be used:

Topographical Maps

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ABSTRACT

The research argues that although a gas flaring stoppage is not successfully in-place in Nigeria, fitting the appropriate technology with complementary economic and institutional factors can lead to near-zero or zero gas flaring. Nigeria is a developing country with a unique culture of many tribes and one of the largest growing urban populations in the world. Infrastructural, political and economical challenges to meeting the goal are introduced. Reinjection of gas back into wells is not available as an option to gas flaring because a large region for gas production is wetlands (Buzcu-Guven et al. 2012). Wetlands ...

In the semi-arid south-west of the United States of America (U.S.), there exist rare and lush wetlands that form habitat to majority of the US’s desert most spectacular biota. Basic biological concepts confirm that where there is permanency of adequate water at the surface or even a few feet below the ground, numerous diverse water dependent floral communities can develop. In this part of the US, there is the Sonoran Desert Ecosystem. The ecosystem is one of the few rarest and most exquisite habitation in the continental North America since majority of the original riparian habitats has long dried ...

Article Summary

- The article of John Schwartz on The New York Times, entitled A Hobbyist Whose Workshop Sits among the Cypress Trees, talks about the wetland restoration efforts of Matt Conn in Iberia Parish, Louisiana (Schwartz).

- Matt, who works as an environmental consultant by day, purchased a wetland property from a farmer who planned to use it for planting sugarcane. Yet, the move of the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal and state-level bodies to classify the land as protected wetlands prompted the farmer to sell the property to Matt, since he wanted to avoid doing restoration work by himself (Schwartz).

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Module 8 Geology: Coastal Processes and Terrain

Sediments are transported along coastlines by several processes. Rivers deposit sediments as they enter wetlands and oceans. Tidal fluxes are constantly depositing and eroding sand while waves erode sand and deposit it somewhere else. Wetland and coastal dune vegetation retains sediments. Storm surges can dramatically erode coastal sediments. Coastal sand transport by all these methods are complex. But, the issue has become more complex with human impacts on the natural processes. Flood control measures and the damming of rivers decreases the downstream deposition of sediment. Sediment starvation of these areas typically results in our replacement of sand on ...

The chapter “Urban Facts and Fallacies” by Thomas Sowell is definitely an interesting read compelling reader to reflect on every fact stated by the author. The Housing section of chapter was shocking and eye-opening and starts from providing truth of the biggest “fallacy” as called by author that government intervention is required in the housing market to control the upper limit of price of houses. The reading is directed to break this fallacy to make readers realize that due to government intervention, the prices have actually skyrocketed. It is a well known fact that prices of houses has ...

6.0 INTRODUCTION This section provides discussions on prospective environmental impacts touted to arise from implementing the recommendations under Section 5 (Alternatives Analysis). Officials at the federal, state and local levels and the general public would benefit from the environmental overview provided in this section, as it aims to give a clearer understanding on various environmental impacts that may arise from the proposal to develop Lafayette Regional Airport. The Environmental Assessment (EA) elaborated in the Airport Environmental Handbook, under FAA Order 5050.4A stands as the model from which the environmental overview in this section is derived (FAA, 1985). Of ...

Organization

Introduction In America, one of the most important matter of national concern is clean water. Almost half the Americans believe that clean water is one the fundamental rights of every citizen. Thousands of Americans take part in the local and state water protection group. The Clean Water Act or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is the principal law that governs the pollution of the surface water of United States of America. The act was originally enacted in 1948 but it underwent certain amendments in 1972 to come to its present form. The 1972 act laid out ambitious ...

Sustainable Development Plan

Introduction Sustainable development plan is a preparation that guides a city to face present and future challenges. This plan includes seeking unique opportunities of the city and focusing on land use challenges in order to obtain a developed city and to produce a long-term resolution for environmental, social and economic challenges ahead. The recent devastation in New Orleans and the areas around it delivers the city as well as the region with a significant opportunity. The opportunity is rebuilding the communities in the city, in which their rich history will be promoted while making a new interpretation of a developed city of the 21st century. ...

Introduction

Tourism, like any other human activity, has it fair share of positive and negative impacts. Hall & Lew (p.192) provide a myriad of effects of tourism. Among the positives effects are those of cross-cultural interaction, self-fulfillment and monetary gain by the visited place/country. For the negative impacts, these range from pollution of the environment and culture, change in local economies such as market values of housing and rise in vices such as sex tourism. The environmental effects of tourism are more severe as they threaten the very existence of man as a species. Issues such as climate change, pollution, loss of agricultural ...

Terrestrial Ecosystems Dynamic

Ecological systems are dynamic by nature and constantly feel the influence of climate variability. Since the structure and functioning of forest ecosystems are controlled by climatic factors through metabolic function, it may change in the future dynamics of forest restoration, growth, progress and growth of tree mortality, as well as the relationship of rocks. It is expected that climate change will be faster than the rate at which ecosystems can adapt and repair itself. Ecosystems of the North must first of all respond to possible global warming because of climate-driven ecosystem response reveals itself most clearly. At high ...

Invasive python in Florida (everglades)

Invasive python in Florida (everglades)

Annotated bibliography

Pizzatto, Lígia, Camila Both, and Richard Shine. "Quantifying Anuran Microhabitat Use To Infer The Potential For Parasite Transmission Between Invasive Cane Toads And Two Species Of Australian Native Frogs." Plos ONE 9.9 (2014): 1-11. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. Kempel, Anne, et al. "Plant-Microbe-Herbivore Interactions In Invasive And Non-Invasive Alien Plant Species." Functional Ecology 27.2 (2013): 498-508. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. Bottollier-Curtet, Marion, Anne-Marie Planty-Tabacchi, and Eric Tabacchi. "Competition Between Young Exotic Invasive And Native Dominant Plant Species: Implications For Invasions Within Riparian Areas." ...

Dissolved Oxygen

INTRODUCTION Dissolved oxygen is a useful parameter used to determine the level of effluent in waste water treatment. Living organisms in water bodies require oxygen to break down organic matter. These organisms consume the dissolved oxygen in water and give out carbon dioxide. Oxygen does not readily dissolve in water and gets depleted quickly by increased micro-organism activity. To maintain optimal oxygen levels in a water body, the oxygen replenishing rate from the air should be equal to dissolved oxygen use by micro-organism in the water. A curve drawn to represent dissolved oxygen levels down a stream from a point of effluent ...

Introduction

This term paper explores the issue of rising sea levels, the likely causes, and the effects the rise is having now and may have in the future on our planet. Specifically, the effects discussed include on the land, the world’s freshwater resources, the animal and plant life, and the human race. The paper also considers current and potential longer-term solutions needed to deal with the problem and its effects. Finally, the paper provides recommendations for dealing with rising sea levels, in order to minimize the effects discussed.

Identification of the Problems

Although there are differences of opinion regarding the primary cause(s) ...

Minnesota is understood as one of the most wonderful and interesting places in the United States. Divided into four primary biomes which include the prairie, the deciduous forest, the coniferous forest and the waterfowl wetland, it could not be denied that Minnesota has one of the richest ecological environments in the country. Hence, to make sure that the environmental balance in the area remains as rich as necessary to support life, it has been considered important to establish a camp that is able to provide the species with the support system that they need to survive. As response to this ...

In my community there is a problem of water control that is becoming the cause of the environmental pollution. The rain falls in the community and the water is channeled down into the gutter through the drainage system, but there is no proper subsurface and surface drainage for removing the excess water in timey and proper manner. This is paving the way to the environmental pollution as well as causing many diseases. So, careful and appropriate control and reuse of the drainage water can be helpful in the protection of the environment and for optimizing the use of the water ...

1. Ecosystems. (10 pts) Provide a review of the process of succession and trends in biodiversity, productivity, and nutrient cycling. Ecological succession refers to the process of gradual change of the ecosystems. This is attributed to the fact that habitats do not remain constant and they keep changing over time. Succession is divided into two; there is primary succession and secondary succession. Primary succession refers to changes which occur on an environment that has never been colonized before, for instance, quarrying on land that has never been quarried before. Secondary succession on the other hand involves environmental disturbance ...

Internet Encyclopedia of Garbage

Web Site No.: 1 Page Title: The Truth about Nitrite in Lunch Meat Organization Operating Server: Livescience Hyperlink: LIVESCIENCE.COM Brief Justification of Web Site as Appropriate: The website is appropriate because it explains the harmful side of nitrite preservatives in meets. While sodium nitrite helps fight harmful bacteria in harmful meats, it may damage cells or chance into cancer-causing molecules. Nitrites may also disable the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.

Web Site No.: 2

Page Title: The Nitrate and Nitrite Myth: another reason not to fear bacon Organization Operating Server: Chris Kresser Hyperlink: THE NITRATE AND NITRITE ...

Impact of Rainwater on the

ABSTRACT Critical pollution issues connected to rainfall contributing to the pollution of the Parramatta River Catchment remains unresolved in the 21st century. The impact of urbanization over the centuries by the European settlers continues underpinning this environmental issue for the people of this region. Heavy metals and other contaminants gather in rainwater runoff along with other urban debris polluting the river catchment and consequently damaging the health of the river. This type of pollution leads to destruction of plant and animal habitats as well as Aboriginal billabongs and other traditional wetlands as well as sacred waterways. While the ...

The Threat to Marshland Habitat and Wildlife

INTRODUCTION - Introduced in Louisiana over 100 years ago. - Native of South America - Introduced for fur farming in 1900. - Populations out of control for past 30 years in Louisiana marsh wetlands.(Daily Herald, 2009, p.1; U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2013)

INTRODUCTION (CONT.)

Literature Review - Nutria in Louisiana 1930s – 1980s - Nutria Characteristics - Marsh Wetlands - Population Expansion - Numbers reaching nearly 1 million by 1957 - Nutria Fur Farming - Impact on Wetlands - Nutria adds to the list of grazing animals ...

A Thesis

Graduate Faculty of the Requirements for the Degree 2013 All Rights Reserved Introduction This project will focus on the botanical Family Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, Louisiana. These parishes are spatially adjacent but are distinguished by different ecological habitats, making them botanically diverse. Lafayette Parish contains a prairie complex, St. Martin Parish has large areas of swamps, rivers, and lakes. The only recent publications on the identification and distribution of the Apiaceae in Louisiana occur in) and the USDA Plants database (plants.usda.gov 2011, and Thomas and Allen 1996). Since little is known about ...

Critical Review of the LEED-ND Rating System

Introduction Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development, simply called LEED-ND, is a rating system that inculcates the principles of green building, smart growth and urbanism into the first national system for neighborhood design. The LEED-ND has a certification program that allows independent-third parties to verify whether the location of a development and its design meet high levels of environmental responsibility and sustainable development. Although it is administered by the United States Green Building Council, LEED-ND is a collaboration of three organizations; namely, United States Green Building Council, Congress for New Urbanism and Natural Resources Defense Council. LEED-ND promises the ...

According to Warrick (1993), global warming is the main contributor to the rise in global sea level since the Industrial Revolution. Human activities such as burning coal and oil and cutting down tropical forests increase atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping gases. The three main factors leading to the rise in sea levels include: thermal expansion, ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica and melting of glaciers and polar ice caps. Land ice, that is, glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets, stores nearly two-thirds of the world’s freshwater and is shrinking in response to higher temperatures. Glaciers partially melt ...

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 ...

Environmental Effects

Environmental Effects: Resources Consent Overview The proposed quarry site is situated in an environmentally rich location. Exotic mature trees that are not native to its current ecosystem basically surround it; therefore, it was planted in the area to grow as newly adapting tree specie. In addition, sheep’s that are thriving in the grass growing in the Kanuka Hill presently grazes the land. Small bodies of water are presently home to small animals like small fish, birds and frogs at the surrounding wetlands and Kanuka stream. Furthermore, high concentration of vegetation and other plants are present in ...

Food security remains one of the challenges facing the world today. Nations across the globe have embraced mechanized agriculture, which encourage use of synthetic fertilizers, reclamation of wetlands, and use of chemicals thus interfering with soil fertility, marine life, ground water, and estuarine environments. Synthetic fertilizers contain high levels of nutrients such as nitrogen, calcium, ammonia, phosphate, phosphorus, and magnesium, which increase crop yields and maturity. However, prolonged use of synthetic fertilizers has detrimental effects on the environment as it alters nitrogen cycle and facilitates accumulation of nitrogen compounds in water, soil, and atmosphere. Large amount of nitrogen in ...

Background

Over the past 100 years, more than 60 percent of world’s wetlands have been destroyed as people search for land to settle on, farm, and establish other types of business investments. Currently, wetlands cover 6 percent of the world’s surface providing a wide array of environmental services, including soil erosion control, water storage and filtration, a buffer against flooding, biodiversity maintenance, nutrient recycling, nursery for fisheries, and carbon storage among others.

However, destruction and drainage of these ecosystems has led to large amounts of carbon emissions equivalent to 40 tons of carbon per hectare per year for degraded swamp ...

Introduction

Human activity and natural forces have endangered some of the most resourceful regions in the world. This has a direct impact not only to the communities living in the regions but also to the ecosystem. Campaigns for the conservation of natural resources have exhibited an increasing trend especially in America. The campaigns have been done using different media such as books, magazine and newspaper articles, the internet, television and radio documentaries as well as books emphasize on the need to conserve wildlife especially in the Amazon rainforests, African savannas and the Arctic refuges. Tidwell’s book explores the alarming losses ...

Introduction

“Time is the force we often think of that aids in making things better, ability to recover all wounds” (Tidwell, 2003). Mike Tidwell’s quote will always summarize a popular attitude held by a majority of people in times of despair (Tidwell, 2003). With time, there comes the ability to cope with a loved one loss, the acceptance of intellectual growth, failure and responsibility (Tidwell, 2003). What Tidwell states about time in Louisiana however, conflicts with the description of the previously quoted because in Louisiana, the opposite occurs to be true: since that day a year ago the state has lost over 17, ...

Water is necessary for life. Luckily, it is also one of the earth’s most abundant resources. But its prevalence does not necessarily assure its availability. About 70 percent of the earth’s surface is covered in water, making it the most abundant natural resource. However only about 3 percent of the earth’s water is drinkable and of that two-thirds are found in glaciers. With human beings inhabiting every corner of the earth, access to clean water is not something enjoyed equally by everyone. This is due to both economic and geographic conditions. Changing weather patterns, which ...

Public Health is defined as the art and science of preventing diseases which leads to the prolongation of life and also the promotion of health by the hard work of the society. Efficiency in the Public Health can be achieved by well timed, reliable and precise information which can be used to study the health pattern in the different populations. India has been experiencing a very high burden of the infectious diseases in the world accelerated by factors such as large population, poor sanitation, high poverty levels, and problems related with the access to preventive services and health care. ...

Introduction

Urban planning is a dynamic profession that deals with improving the welfare of people and their communities by creating more equitable, convenient, efficient, healthful, sustainable, and attractive places for present and future generation. Planning enables businesses, citizens, and civic leaders play a significant role in creating communities that enhance people’s lives. Effective planning has the potential of creating communities that offer better choices for how and where people live. Good planning helps communities find the right balance of essential services and new development, innovative change, and environment protection. However, planners usually come across various issues when it comes to planning. ...

Abstract

Global sea levels have fluctuated during the earth’s long history, falling during the ice ages and rising during periods of global warming. The most recent ice age occurred more than 10,000 years ago. Over the last few decades, we have experienced global warming, which has been aggravated by the effects of global warming resulting into excess gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. Records on rise in sea level for the last 100 years indicate an average rise of one to two inches every 25 years and the figure is increasing. The rising sea level will have ...

Introduction

Wetland conservation is a procedure that aims at preserving and protecting certain areas where there is existence of water or near the surfaces of the earth including the bogs, swamps and the marshes. Six percent of the earth is at least covered by wetlands and they have become a very significant issue for conservation due to the beneficial provision of ecosystem services. About a half of the population on earth (more than 3 billion people) acquire the basic water services from inland wetlands with freshwater. Those are the same number of individuals who rely on staple foods such as rice which is a ...

Introduction

The former 106-acre Continental Airlines Arena site at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, Bergen County became the subject of proposed redevelopment when the then occupants, the sports teams the Nets, the Devils, and the Pirates, proposed moving to new venues. Since then, plans for the redevelopment have experienced a bumpy ride and changes along the way, with current projections of the opening of a much expanded complex perhaps by sometime in 2014. This paper describes the progress of that project, the changes in scope, project management and financing that have occurred, the obstacles that the developers have had to overcome, and ...

A COMPARISON BETWEEN FRESH WATER WETLAND AND SALINE WETLAND

The Australian landscape has a natural component which is salt. This salt in the landscape gets into the various water bodies and affects their level of salinity which affects the way of life of the various biota inhabiting these places. Around the world and in Australia it is been identified that the salinization of fresh water is a major environmental issue. This concern of the effect of the gradual rise of salinity in water bodies’ biodiversity has resulted in the investigative studies on the lives of the invertebrate family both in the saline water and in the fresh water. There has ...

INTRODUCTION

The development of energy resources and the recent changes in world economies, climatic implications and resource management has let to greater examination of how resources are extracted, developed and utilized. The entire industry is constantly under review internally, and externally to perfect their processes with the least possible environmental damage. Because of the possibility, and the reality of potential acute disasters as well as long range environmental effects of the energy production and extraction processes each phase of the system needs careful examination to maximize production and minimize environmental impact. Nigeria and the Niger Delta region have been victims ...

Situation analysis -

ExxonMobil is an oil manufacturing company long suspected of engaging in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” activities that are widely suspected as contributing to the pollution of underground water supplies in many communities. A group from our local community formed two years ago to act as a kind of unofficial watchdog committee, comprised of concerned citizens from various walks of life and professional backgrounds. Periodic checks of the local water supply have failed to prove that the local water is unsafe, with levels of pollutants found to be well within accepted parameters as established by state government agencies and the Environmental ...

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF GAS FLARING IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA

INTRODUCTION The development of energy resources in combination with the recent changes in world economies, climatic implications and resource management has let to greater examination of how resources are extracted, developed and utilized. The entire industry is constantly under review internally, and externally to perfect their processes with the least possible environmental damage. Because of the possibility, and the reality, of potential acute disasters as well as long range environmental effects of the energy production and extraction process each phase of the system needs careful examination to maximize production and minimize environmental impact. The Nigeria and the Niger ...

1.) Why did New Orleans flood? Include both types of levees, a discussion of wetlands and the modification the the Mississippi River.

New Orleans flooded for a variety of reasons. The first and most prominent reason that New Orleans flooded was the fact that it is seven to ten feet below sea level. The city of New Orleans is actually shaped like a bowl, so once water began flooding in, it is just following the course of gravity, which means flooding into the center of the city. In “The Storm that Drowned a City,” they describe the shape of the city as “a gigantic ...

Global Warming and its Impact on the Environment

Introduction Global warming has been an issue of concern in the world’s environmental circles as there are growing concerns about its increase. It is the gradual rising in temperatures when green house gases that include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane and water vapor are trapped within the earth’s atmosphere. This has caused the melting of the icecaps which have led to a rise in sea levels. Other effects of global warming are changing weather patterns which have caused flooding, heat waves and drought. All these effects show that global warming has impacted significantly on the environment. Since ...

The temperate climate of South Florida provides a suitable environment for a large variety of plants and animals in the area (Kras, 2009). Its unique water habitat provides a home for many reptiles and other endangered species such as the manatee, the Florida panther and the wood stork. In addition, most of the wading birds are endangered and need to be preserved.

Birds

According to Kras (2009), more than 360 species of birds exist or visit the Everglades. Some of this includes wading birds, of which currently about 90 to 95 percent have disappeared. This is because of construction of dikes and poor ...

Emergency Wetland Resources law in 1986 was approved in November 10, 1986 (Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Web), Authorizing the act of purchasing of wetlands from both Land and Water Conservation budget funds, it resulted in removing prohibition in effect prior on the acquisitions. It also resulted in requiring the Secretary to impose a “National Wetlands Priority Conservation Plan”, this imposed ruling required all the States to make sure to include wetlands in their overall Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Planning, and then transferred to the” Migratory Bird Conservation Fund” (MBCF) with amounts ...

Local community representative concerns

Though the proposed hotel is bound to bring good things and services to this island, there are concerns by the local community concerning the same.

How will the proposed hotel be beneficial to the local community at large?

Can the resort offer exclusive employment to the locals?

Shall the management and stakeholder be in constant co-operation with the local community in mobilizing resources for the betterment of the locals? How can this be affected and what are some of the initiatives that the stakeholders of the proposed hotel, would bring to the community. Since the island offers ...