Environmental Issues

Environmental, physical, socioeconomic, and cultural factors all impact the populations health status leading to inequality of healthcare.Reasons:1. People who are higher on the socioeconomic pyramid tends to have better health because of their access to basic needs, financial stability and social support.2. lower educational attainment result in worse heath outcome.3. Cultural prejudice and social stressors are influences of social stratification. Reason being if a person does not share the same background, language or practices they are treated differently than others.

make a research proposal on the following title: impacts of community forestry on local livelihood in Zambia. case study Dambwa forest in southen province of Zambia. make an introduction statement of the problem, study site, research question and hypothesis, methodology, expected results and reference

Discussion for Module 4: CHOOSE ONE TOPIC. 1) Nuclear Waste Storage. Should Nevada’s Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository be completed and open for business? If not, where should U.S. nuclear waste be stored? / TOPIC 2: Single-use plastics… 92 92 unread replies. 92 92 replies. Students, CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE TOPIC TO POST ON: TOPIC 1) Discuss your opinion of the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage project (which currently sits unfinished, awaiting either approval or indefinite suspension). Here is a short documentary (very 1980s retro-chic!) to give you some scientific and logistical background about the storage facility: Yucca Mountain: The Making of an Underground Laboratory (Links to an external site.) Yucca Mountain: The Making of an Underground Laboratory TOPIC 2: Plastics in the earth’s waste stream: Should regulations be banning single-use plastics, or should plastics be phased-out on a voluntary basis, by consumers and companies? Case example, India: Indian government pledged to eliminate single-use plastic in India by 2022. Almost all of India’s 29 states have full or partial bans on single-use plastics.

This paper is based on a text: Strategy for Sustainability: A business manifesto, by Adam Werbach. Writer must have access to this text. Then you are to address the major concept(s) for each chapter and introduction. For each chapter and introduction, you are to take major sustainability concepts, explain them, reflect on the concept(s), and then apply to a personal sustainability plan . One required source (the text) than others as necessary.

Write a two-page report reflecting on your experiences working with your group to implement your community service learning projects and your role in implementing your project. All questions below will need to be addressed. The paper should be double spaced, 12- point font and free of grammatical and spelling mistakes. You are encouraged to use the Learning through Service text as a guide, but please remember to reference your work. This means including the text in a reference list at the end of the report and appropriately using in-text citations, particularly when quoting the text word-for-word. Answer the following questions in your report: 1. Reflect on your experience while engaging in service learning activity by addressing the following: What were your responsibilities? Describe the final project outcome of your group. How do think this project may impact your agency partner? How effective was the teamwork of your group? Why? 2. Explain how this experience connected you to the community. How did this activity affect your view of your responsibility in the community? Provide examples of how you could remain civically engaged in the future. 3. Assess how your experience is connected to your coursework, skills, and career interests/goals. How did your group use utilize different member roles and perspectives to complete the community service project? Connect how this group project is linked to your coursework, skills, and career interests/goals. Provide examples about how you could apply this experience toward your future? 4. Evaluate what you learned about yourself through this experience. How did your strengths and skills contributed to your team? What areas of needed improvement did you identify through this experience? Provide a plan for how you will continue to work on these areas. 5. Describe how you feel about the experience. Did you notice any feelings before, during, or after the experience that influenced your previous thoughts about your career interests? What will you take away from this experience?

Write a report on the Environmental Assessment of a selected Natural Hazard/Disaster in a community of your choice. In the report, describe the mechanism of the selected Natural Hazard/Disaster and the reason why it was chosen. Provide a summary of the chosen community with details of population, location and size. Discuss why the selected natural hazard/disaster is important in the chosen community, vulnerability factors, and assessment of risks. Summarize the effects of the natural hazard/disaster on the community and compressively discuss mitigation approaches that are specific to the community with recommendations to the city council.

Overview: Read the assignment material for the week. Read Parts II and III–Chapters 10 – 20 of “What is a Disaster” by Perry & Quarantelli (eds.). Assignment: Provide an approximate 1500-word document analyzing important concepts in the readings. Ensure your apply the discussion tenets from the contributors to your work including the work of Barton, Boin, Buckle, Smith, Stallings, Perry, and Quarantelli. Assume that you are writing for an uninformed reader that knows nothing about the topic and has not read what you read. Provide an introduction that gives the background of the resource that you are reviewing, so the reader will understand what they’re reading and why. Include the following topics in the discussion: – Discuss the relationship between disaster and stress including the difference between individual and collective stress, and why is it important? – Discuss Stallings theses; analyze and discuss how various contributors add and detract from his work? Which criticisms are valid and which not? – Provide an analysis of the discussions throughout the readings (Barton, Boin, Buckle, Smith, Stallings, Perry, and Quarantelli). – Discuss how Stallings work informs the future research that is still required? What would be the value of that research? Assignment Submission: DO NOT list out the topics or questions and answer them. Provide APA formatted headings. Ensure that you meet or exceed the 1500-word target, and that your paper meets APA presentation requirements.

The topic is about analyzing the topic of ocean pollution. How pollution is affecting our oceans and its environment in any way. This is an essay that is solely based on analyzing a topic. The paper should also include the meaning behind the tragedy of commons and wastes. 1. Identify a Health, Human or Ecological Topic for Analysis. 2. Analyze the Decision-Making Process (Human) or the Environmental (Ecological) application that is used for your topic. 3. What is the reason for your interest or analysis? 4. What changes or recommendations should be made 5. Would you try to influence your area of interest? Why or why not? How?

ENVS 200-1ONF Summer I 2020

1. Explain how personal water use fits into the construction of community water dynamics. 2. Explain what can happen to concentrations of metals, petroleum products, and dissolved materials contained within the water supply as a function of water use dynamics. 3. Explain how conservation techniques can be used to help the natural ecosystem survive population increases? 4. Based on you and your partners data, explain the importance of conserving water and techniques for reducing water use at home? 5. Explain how each of the following affect our water supply?irrigation (home, school, agricultural)pesticide usestorm water runofflandscapingrainwater harvesting 6. Explain how your home could conserve water. 7. Explain how you could encourage other students to conserve water. 8. How does this laboratory exercise fit within the context of our environmental science and sustainability course?