Population ecology

Taking a sustainable vacation is challenging. If you want your destination to encompass ecotourism principles and be environmentally responsible, you will want to find experiences that involve the local community. For example, an African wilderness experience should involve local guides who have a stake in protecting the biodiversity and the natural environment. Africa, especially South Africa and Botswana, are popular destinations because both counties have opportunities to experience the…

Biodiversity is a very important part to the ecosystem. It is defined as “the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.” There is more evidence pilling up that it is being lost at all scales. This is a complex system that is not only important to a healthy environment globally and…

For many of us, conflict over natural resources is not a part of everyday life. But in many places around the world, access to natural resources cannot be taken for granted. Conflict over natural resources is often part of a larger struggle over political, social, and economic power. The control over water, land, and oil has economically and socially changed the world. They have been used to secure power because of how important they are to society. The consequences for wrongly abusing these…

The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which left Great Britain on 13 May 1787 to found a penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia. The rabbits are decreasing in population due to diseases or viruses. One common disease that causes the rabbits to decrease is a disease called ‘’Myxomatosis’’. It is a highly infectious and usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing swelling of the mucous membranes and inflammation…

Broadly known as the father of “The Land Ethic,” Aldo Leopold brought to light a ever growing problem in the mistreatment of the environment, in his main work ‘Sand County Almanac’ (1947) he talks about the ecosystem as a member of a larger community that should be enlarged to include non-human elements such as soils, waters, plants, and animals or collectively the land, and that all forms of life are valuable. In his concept, land Ethic reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and…

Of the many human actions that are endangering ancient natural habitats, like deforestation, pollution, releasing invasive species and replacing the woods to build woods of infrastructures, bear - hunting is one of the many, that falls into also one of the many parts that goes into answering the question, "What damages and ecosystem?" My point of view on the subject is that bear - hunting should be illegal in states with more than fifty to one - hundred bear attacks each year. If bear - hunting…

1. What is the calm waters environment in the first place? The term itself is a metaphor that dominated the thinking of practising managers and academics in terms of handling change. Basically the calm waters view of organizational change envisions the organization as a large ship crossing a calm sea. The ship's captain and crew know exactly where they are going because they have made the trip many times before. Change comes in the form of an occasional storm, a brief distraction in an otherwise…

In Crimes Against Nature, Jacoby argues that the history of the Conservation Movement has two sides. One of Jacoby ultimate goals for this study is to help erase the current boundaries between social and environmental history. Jacoby believes the United States needs a social history that is attuned to rural life and the ecological relationships that shape and sustain it. According to the article, Crimes Against Nature by Karl Jacoby: Social History of People in the Environment, written by Dan…

For billions of years, nature has dictated the survival and appearance of a species. However in Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods suggests that know we– human beings– are the ones changing the face of nature. Louv introduces the article with a study about controlling the color of butterfly wings then moving on to show the comparison between parks and advertising. Then, Louv transitions into a hypothetical example of a mother who did not want to buy backseat entertainment for her child and…

Geography of “Stuff” March 1st Leila Chapa Geography-140-001 Dr. Joni Palmer As markets grow worldwide, the pressure on natural resources continues to grow as well. This is causing many companies to look at different ways of developing their product. For many producers, by just looking at the life cycle of their product, they learn that they can reduce operating costs, including lowering their energy consumption and raw material use. Recycling alone does not look at the big…