Environmental protection

Many conservationists and practitioners argue that environmental regulations are crucial to guarantee the sustainability of the Earth’s biological systems as well as the health and wellbeing of people, and that protected areas such as national parks constitute an essential tool in such regulatory toolbox (Kramer et al. 1997; Brandon et al. 1998; Terborgh 1999). Although the preservation of nature, which is the main objective of national parks, has become a worldwide concern, taking into account…

Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson was the spark to a great controversy over the use of pesticide ever since it was published in 1962. This novel was a great influence over the abuse of chemical insecticides and succeeded in banning some dangerous chemicals such as DDT from the United States. Even though Silent Spring chastised the use of these chemicals, Carson never intended that all of the pesticides should be banned, instead the use of them should be controlled to prevent harm to the…

Though the information on environmental concern and the effect of pesticides (especially DDTs) were already available to the public, Carson’s book was unique in that it synthesized all the information in a comprehensive accessible way. She pieced together environmental concerns of urban and industrial reforms with the ecological issues that were relevant to that time. In documenting the damaging…

is experiencing rapidly growing pollution issues, including: mass deforestation, smog, water pollution, and various other forms of environmental destruction. As a poverty ridden nation lead by a government with too little resources at its disposal the issues of extreme pollution are often put on hold to other societal issues. In Indonesia, many forms of environmental pollution / destruction are not only affecting their population of well over a hundred million people, but also including the…

The six dimensions of health include physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and environmental health. The quality of life of an individual or the overall well-being of an individual is determined by the interactions between these six dimensions. It was important for me to understand these dimensions, and find ways to ensure a balance of mind, spirit, and body. The knowledge from these dimensions allowed my the evaluate my quality of life of an individual or overall well-being. For…

Initially hearing the word “green” what first comes to mind is the color. Other times one might think, in response to a home, automatically of a greenhouse. However, in this particular instance when you read the word “green” it is in reference to “going-green”. For my Home Planning class, taught by Professor Holmes, we are required to do a Green Research Paper. This assignment not only helps us gain research but also insight on the proper ways and elements of going green. From this assignment I…

In today’s society people has taken care of the environment in a different way. If God created the world and everything that goes along with it; then we as followers of God, Don’t we need to treat the world the way God would want us to? In Psalms 24:1-2 NIV it says “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.” How funny that not just people, but Christians themselves treat the world with such…

suffrage movement, could aid in the current movement of environmental activists and their attempt to combat and mitigate losses to the natural world. As seen in the movie, “One Woman, One Vote”, politicians needed to be on your side, connectivity and numbers were required, and innovative public engagement campaigns were necessary to make the changes society needed. Perhaps, once these fundamentals are more rigorously put to action within the environmental movements agenda, progress towards a…

generations is an idea that directly mirrors the goals of conservationists. Also, the ranch is economically focused on using the land directly for human use. However, this is where I think the comparisons start because I feel that many of their environmental philosophies mirror very closely with Arne Naess 's two ultimate norms of deep ecology. The first of these norms is human 's self-realization. This self-realization is of human beings realizing that they are a part of an organic wholeness…

through an environment? 2. Organisms and events cause environmental changes. How would an environment be affected by a change that harmed some hunted organisms but favored other hunted organisms? What are some natural events that change environments? How can living things change an environment? How do environmental variations cause changes within an environment? 3. Environmental variations affect the survival of organisms. How might environmental conditions differ…