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    GLOBAL IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ON DEFORESTATION Introduction Deforestation can be defined as the process of general disruption of a forest ecosystem that occurs when trees are cut on a large scale. It also refers to any process that alters an original tree covers, which includes felling of all trees on a site, thinning a forest and setting bush on fire. Trees are cut down by people for various reasons, for example trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel in the form of…

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    Pigeonpea Essay

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    about 1.1 mha is affected by waterlogging, causing an annual loss of 25-30% (Sultana et al., 2010). Pigeonpea genotypes are more prone to waterlogging than the wild cultivars in the Cajanus genus which exhibits high level of resistance to water-logging challenge. Therefore, genotypes of wild species are good source for developing waterlogging tolerant cultivars in pigeonpea. The genetic base of pigeonpea cultivars is quite narrow as only 57 parental lines have been used for the development of…

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     Dynamic Service Creation: The OGSA model can dynamically create and manage new service instances and also can necessitate the existence of service creation services. The OGSA model defines a standard interface (Factory) and semantics which a service creation service must provide [1].  Lifetime Management: Any distributed system is supposed to deal with any number of failures. Especially in a system which involves transient, stateful service instances, there should be an option available to…

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    The Doctor's Wife

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    The short story “The Doctor and The Doctor’s Wife” tells a story of a group of indian men working for a doctor to cut washed up logs. The opening paragraph explains the background of the working men and what they plan to do. After finding the washed up logs the men come to an argument of who the logs belong to. Does the story reinforce troubled times the Native-Americans had to endure during the colonial period, or does it relay the trouble men had to go through to take care of their families?…

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    Brown describes mass soil erosion as “a catastrophic form of natural erosion and can be produced by road construction in unstable, steep topography”, one of the most common forms of erosion in Oregon due to poorly places logging roads. Not only does clearcutting in northern parts of Oregon create compacted roads, but when these mass soil movements occur along these roads that are built to transport the wood being taken out they flow right into river systems that can greatly affect the biotic…

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    Giraffes Research Paper

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    The Giraffe is a large mammal that lives all around africa. They are known for their very long neck and scattered patches of darker hair. They are light brown with large patches of dark colored hair. Giraffes have many natural predators like lions, and other predators. They eat acacia leaves that they can reach with their 6 foot neck. With the 6 foot neck included male Giraffes can't get up to 20 feet tall! Females can get to 15 feet tall. Their lifespan is 25 years in the wild. They are also…

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    even greater then what is shown currently in my information sheets. Logging was thought to be the biggest cause of deforestation has taken second place to do cultivation by the forest farmers who don’t actually own the land which are estimated to be about 150 million worldwide the conversion of forest to agricultural plots plantations and pastureland these farmers follow to logging companys and convert what is left after the logging companys leave these farmers do this so that they can earn a…

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    Haijon, Dayang, Zuraidah and Liu (2014) stated that sustainable development is the exploitation of the resources from the forests. For example, the logging activities and agricultural plantation. The activities can boost the economic level of a state. Next, United Nations (2017) stated that sustainable development should be protected under the Goal 13 of Sustainable Development Goals (Climate action)…

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    for everyday needs. A small portion of the Amazon’s timber is used in order to process paper, furniture, and homes. This process is considered to be illegal logging in most circumstances. The most common illegalities is “taking wood from protected areas, [and] harvesting more than is permitted” (Deforestation). Unfortunately, illegal logging is cheaper for the logger, causing it to reoccur. The illegal removing of wood from forests “is thought to be for use as fuelwood” (Deforestation). Fuel is…

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    the lucrative, overseas fur trade demonstrating Ricardian economic theory. Shortly after the War of 1812, the fur trade began to decline due to over hunting. Exploitation of another natural resource, logging, was then established in this localization economy. With it came an infrastructure of logging roads…

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