Environmental Principles and Policies

Coming into office during the Vietnam War, Nixon was keen to toe the line with respect to his foreign policy decisions. Within the United States, there were factions of the population that were adamant that Communism needed to be stopped in every instance and other factions that demanded an end to a war that was deemed impossible to win. The United States had long followed a policy of refusing to recognize the regime in China, a communist country, as legitimate. In conjunction with Nixon’s…

Corporate social and environmental responsibility The term corporate social responsibility (CSR) appears for the first time in early 1970. Since then, it continues to develop and have different definitions and perceptions among private and government sector, and civil organizations. Corporate responsibly in relation to internal stakeholders and shareholders on local and national level, as well as, performance in serving the society and global community are the most common perspectives accepted…

SUMMARY Land Use & land cover change processes occurs at the interface between human and environmental systems interacting with both of these systems and with each other by feedback. However, there are other systems involved in these interactions to include natural and socioeconomic changes. As such land management decisions must have a balance between optimizing the various opportunities and the challenges imposed by various external factors. This proves that land-use and landscape change…

Save the Waves program, a company-wide philosophy that guides our ongoing efforts to minimize our environmental footprint, set new environmental standards and lead food safety and product quality initiatives for our industry. When the Fuel Team developed a business case for fuel procurement it depended on a variety…

of harm, the reality is that this is far from the truth. There is an endless list of errors that would likely occur in the operating theatre jeopardizing the safety of the patient and the surgical team. To control the source of operating room environmental contamination, it is important to realize that the primary source of contamination in most instances is the healthcare practitioners who work there (Phillips 138). It is therefore important to ensure that the staff are well trained on some of…

community capital: environmental capital, human capital, social capital, cultural capital, public structural capital, and commercial capital (Callaghan & Colton (2008). One area in particular we will consider in the building process is environmental capital which will include regulation, carrier, production, and information. Through the use of environmental capital this will help keep our ecosystems in balance (Callaghan & Colton (2008). By following the plan talked about in the environmental…

management roles at the ministry. This gave me a fascinating insight into the challenges that confront project managers – risk management, contracts, project initiation, planning, financial management, socio-cultural effects on schedule control and environmental sustainability. In my experience, in almost all cases, the success or failure of most projects undertaken by the ministry depended largely on the personal involved in the project execution, particularly those at the top of the project…

The environmental movement has been underway for some time now with the intent on protecting the environment. Through this movement there has been many different agencies formed in the United States Federal Government to help protect the environment. The values and missions of these agencies are not what they seem and do not protect the environment as one should think they would. They strive more to meet the needs human needs than those of the environment. When thinking of environmental ethics…

development policies. National City incorporated in the…

needs” (Brundtland Commission, 1987). In this report, the focus will be on the concept of environmental racism and environmental justice. ‘Just sustainability’ is the egalitarian concept of sustainable development (Jacobs, 1999). It addresses what was referred to as the ‘equity deficit’ of environmental sustainability (Agyeman, 2005). Environmental racism…