...Natural environment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Environment. See also: Nature and Environment (biophysical) Land management policies have been developed to preserve the natural characteristics of Hopetoun Falls, Australia while allowing ample access for visitors Bachalpsee in the Swiss Alps; generally mountainous areas are less affected by human activity. A satellite image of the Sahara desert; the world's largest hot desert and third-largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species.[1] The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished by components: * Complete ecological units that function as natural systems without massive civilized human intervention, including all vegetation, microorganisms, soil, rocks, atmosphere, and natural phenomena that occur within their boundaries * Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water, and climate, as well as energy, radiation, electric charge, and magnetism, not originating from civilized human activity The natural environment is contrasted with the built environment, which comprises the areas and components that are strongly influenced by humans belonging to a civilized (i.e. hierarchically structured, agricultural, densely populated...
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...A collapsing Natural Environment? By Su Xiaokang and Perry Link Introduction China’s question for development is amiable yet their actions are counterproductive to their primal goal of social progression. The nation of China is founded on a systematic government that seeks to implement development measures to achieve wealth and prosperity even at the cost of the lives of its citizens. The policies implemented by the government and business entrepreneurs often neglect the basic rights of citizens as factories and transport systems are built in respective of the inhabitants of the land and the repercussion that would arise form such dire human neglect. The article “A collapsing natural environment?” by Su Xiaokang and Perry Link provides comprehensive analysis of the scope of natural degradation that both the ecosystem and people of china are subjected to by insensitive governmental policies. Factors that contribute to a collapsed natural environment in China The desire to become a prosperous and powerful nation could be considered the catalyst behind China’s government’s brute ambition. How else could one perceive the construction of South Shanghai Station toward the Rainbow Bridge were citizens live exposing them to possible radiation. Despite the health protest from citizens of that area the government pursued its goal to construct the railway station despite risking the ecosystem of Dianpu river section. In 1990 Zhuanghe a coastal city with an estimated...
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...Remodeling Society and the Natural Environment Jonathan Awoloi GRW: Energy, Society & Environment Professor Case Due October 6, 2014 Word count: 1194 Awoloi 1 Energy transitions are the major shifts in the forms of energy humans use as well as the methods used to gather energy caused by new understanding of energy and changing uses. Humans had begun as hunter-gatherers and the discovery of fire was merely the preface to an immense, extensive, and ongoing journey to gather energy in all its forms as efficiently as possible, then use to power all kinds of prime movers that have been created and adapted to improve the amount of work that can be done. These energy transitions in the past altered the structure in which humans lived, from smaller units and villages towards larger and larger societies, but also allowed humans to branch out from the cycle of hunting and gathering, that other animals are restricted to, into an increasingly intellectual lifestyle. Although the methods of energy gathering and use greatly advanced, especially over the last century, the natural environment has been greatly damaged due to the need to clear landscapes to amass more energy. The discovery and domestication of fire was a great advancement for hominids, a spark which initiated the fire that was mankind's domination of this planet. Fire had led to cooking, the greatest advantage gained by domesticating fire according to Alfred W. Crosby1. Aside from the great nutritional and food storage...
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...Hedgerows are a semi- natural habitat that have been a major part of the British countryside from as early as the time of the Romans over 2000 years ago where they were used as field and property boundaries. But in recent years the advances in agriculture and lack of knowledge of the conservational value of hedgerows has meant hedgerows have been replaced by easy to manage fences or left unmanaged, resulting in hedgerows turning into relict hedgerows (overgrown and unable to support the unique biodiversity) or into lines of trees (Staley et al., 2015), this has led to an annual loss of hedgerows at about 7000m (Read, 1999). The structural condition of a hedgerow greatly affects the value of the hedgerow as a habitat for wildlife. There’s a...
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...Chapter 3: Analyzing the Marketing Environment Subject: Marketing Management Prepared by: Joel Gapit Cañon Professor: Dr. Antonio S. Valdez ------------------------------------------------- MBA School Year: 3rd Semester2014-2015 Learning Objectives: (2nd part allocated reports / continuation) * Identify the marketing trends in the firm’s natural resources and technological environments. * Explain the key changes that occur in the political and cultural environments. * Discuss how companies can react to the marketing environment. ------------------------------------------------- Natural Environment –involves natural resources that are needed as inputs or that are affected by marketing activities. Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth’s natural resources. Its goal is to gain a better understanding of the role of natural resources in the economy. Learning about the role of natural resources allows for the development of more sustainable methods to manage resources and make sure that they are maintained for future generations. The goal of natural resources economics is to develop an efficient economy that is sustainable in the long run. Importance of Environment This diagram illustrates how society and the economy are subsets of the environment. It is not possible for society and economics systems to exist independently from the environment. For this reason, natural resources economics focuses on understanding...
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...Title: The Nonmarket Environment of Agrium Inc. Course name: JRSB 340 - Business and It's Environment Course section: ELS1 Name: Sanja Peric Name of instructor: Douglas Kennedy Date: November 26, 2012 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................ 2 NONMARKET ENVIRONMENT.............................................................................................. 2 ISSUES ......................................................................................................................................3 INTERESTS ..............................................................................................................................3 The Agrium Board...............................................................................................................4 Natural Resources Conservation Board (NRCB) ...............................................................4 Northeast Strathcona County Residents Group (NSCRG)................................................. 4 Sturgeon County Residents (SCR)...................................................................................... 5 INSTITUTIONS .......................................................................................................................5 Alberta Environment.......................................................................................................... 5 Alberta Health and Wellness...
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...impact on the environment was. And now that the semester is over I know exactly what I as a consumer am doing to the environment. Everyone plays a big role in impacting the environment and everyone can play a bigger role in helping conserve the environment they live in. When it comes to air pollution, global climate change, changes in natural habitat, and water pollution I as a consumer negatively impact those four problems. With air pollution I affect it negatively by driving a car, running electricity, and other ways like using the stove in the kitchen. I affect climate change by driving a car, by buying things that come from factories that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and by using electricity. When it comes to changes in natural habitat I impact it by living in a house that was built on natural habitat which then forced the environment to change, also by going to the mall and other stores that were built upon natural habitat. I impact water pollution by using harmful pesticides, buying food that comes from farms that irrigate, by wasting water like letting the faucet run, also by using fertilizer. Those are just some of the ways I as a consumer impact Earth’s environment. The five levels on which people can participate in working towards a sustainable future are as follows, individual lifestyle changes, political involvement, membership participation N60s, volunteer, and career choices. I can modify my lifestyle to better impact the environment by these five...
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...The protection of environment in Western and Eastern Europe Natural environmental concerns have been felt since the late nineteenth century, when it was the attitude of admiration transition from passive to active natural beauty drive to protect them and prevent the abuse of natural resources . The central axis of our environmental policy is to ensure a clean environment for the health of its inhabitants , breaking the vicious circle of poverty and environmental degradation , ensuring innovative regenerative growth for the benefit of present and future generations , harmonization of legislation with the specific environmental European Union to accelerate integration into European structures. Without environmental protection , can not ensure sustainable development. Sustainable development includes environmental protection and sustainable development environmental conditions.Requirements and existing requirements at EU level requires a new approach to global environmental problems , in terms of effects and pressure on the environment and all socio -economic consequences . United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED ) held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 , showed that they can not think of environment and economic and social development as isolated areas and that the only path to long-term economic progress it is binding environmental protection . The key issue of sustainable development is the reconciliation between two human aspirations : need for...
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...McKibben highlights the fact that we are destroying the natural environment at an increasing rate, for our own short-term gain. Since the day that man created agriculture, and industrialisation to follow, the imbalance between man and nature has been growing[1/2]. This has been accompanied by a massive population increase, tripling in the twentieth century alone[3]. Human pressure on nature has never been so great. Such pressure has resulted in 'environmental issues', ranging from global warming and eutrophication, to the depletion of natural resources and an increase in the number of landfill sites. A distinction must be drawn between 'anthropogenically created’ environmental issues, and 'natural' ones. The extinction of most of the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago was not caused by man, but rather an entirely natural disaster, perhaps a meteor or extreme tectonic activity. It is difficult to apply any man-made ethic to situations that are not man-made, so for the purpose of this essay, 'environmental issues' will be taken to be current issues actively cause by human beings. During the last few decades, many thinkers from different disciplines have been searching for a new ethic to confront environmental issues with - an 'environmental ethic'. Whether religious or secular in nature, this must be able to define the environment and the proper relationship that should exist between human beings and the natural world. The stance that one takes concerning environmental...
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...Environment Speech Good morning to my respected teachers and my dear friends. The topic of my speech is Environment. Environment is the surrounding in which we live. It is the source of life. Our whole life is dependent to the environment. It directs our life and determines our proper growth and development. Good or bad quality of social life depends on the quality of our natural environment. The need of human beings for food, water, shelter and other things depends on the environment around us. There is a balanced natural cycle exists between environment and lives of human beings, plants and animals. Human society is playing vital role in degenerating the natural environment which in turn negatively affects the lives on this planet. All the human actions in this modern world directly impact the whole ecosystem. All the actions have brought a big change in this planet which resulted in many environmental problems. Increasing demand of technologies and industries in the modern time impacts the nature. The increasing invention of new technologies has changed the interaction of people with environment which permits more population to grow. The modern technologies have immense power which has altered the whole environment in an unimagined way. The indiscriminate use of environment is the root of ecological crisis. Such continuous increase in the technologies and human behaviour are correspondingly very serious. Such amazing technologies have become the reason of economic growth...
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...Environment Issues Week 11: Project Part 4 Tamara Taylor November 30, 2013 Energy: Renewable Energy In the Midwest the average annual temperatures increased over the past several decades. The Midwest includes around 66 million Americans in the following cities of Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas city (which is the area I live in), Cleveland, Minneapolis, and St. Paul to name a few. Snow and ice are arriving later in the fall and melting earlier in the spring. It is said that heavier downpours now occur twice as much as they did a century ago. While conducting my research for this paper I found an organization that was very interesting. The Asia-Pacific Partnership or know as APP, “is a non-treaty partnership established by Australia, India, Japan, China, South Korea and the United States in July 2005” (World Nuclear Association, 2011). By 2007, Canada joined the APP. The partnership objectives would include working together with the aid of other private companies to expand markets for the use of more cleaner efficient energy technologies. These technologies would include renewable energy and to provide a lower cost clean power to areas without access to modern energy services. The short term and long term focus of UNFCCC negotiations is the ultimate objective of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. It focuses on the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrated in the atmosphere that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interferences with the...
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...the changes you seek is extremely difficult. Chiefly, planning and policy attempt to exercise control, to develop a desired future (Thomas 2007, p.7). But control is difficult enough to achieve over people, let alone trying to control the physical environment (Thomas 2007, p.7). Another fundamental issue for policy-makers is the direction of the policy. In particular they have to consider whether they are attempting to prevent environmental impacts that result from human action, or whether they are attempting to adapt to such changes, consciously or unconsciously (Thomas 2007, p.8). Natural Resources Natural resources have been critical for human welfare since people first started to walk the earth several million years ago (Field 2005 p.27). Natural resource economics is the study of how the flow of goods and services derived from natural resources is, and should be, managed in today’s world (Field 2005 p.37). Field continues to state that resource management problems derive from the underlying technological, institutional and cultural factors that characterise the economy (2005, p.37). Given the information concerning environmental policy and the importance of natural resources to human welfare and, the fact that our natural resources are under threat not just for today’s generation but for future generations. This paper will now discuss one of the essential elements of life...
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...Lecture 1. Introduction. Basic definitions of (OHS) occupational health and safety and life activities In full are the key concepts in health and safety in the following legal and regulatory "Law on safety in emergency situations," "Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan,» etc. Here are some of them that are most often manifested in the practice of any person. Knowing these definitions allow a deeper understanding of the problems associated with the existence of man in the course of employment and other activities. Article 1 of the "Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan" is the following definition of occupational safety - safety system health and safety in the workplace, which includes legal, social, economic, organizational, technical, sanitary and epidemiological, medical and preventive treatment, rehabilitation and other activities and facilities. With this definition, the definition overlaps safety - the state of security of workers, to ensure comprehensive measures that exclude the impact of harmful and hazardous factors on workers in the course of employment. Of the two, the definition that is the main work - human activity aimed at creating material, wind and other values required for life and meet the needs of individuals and society. In connection with this definition of labor - the sphere of human activity is diverse: education, sports, culture, construction, etc. It should be noted that, in accordance with the basic axiom of human activities, which states that...
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...ethical and practical business standards and up hold legal compliance that help shape future industries today. It behaves in a morally responsible way toward consumers, the environment and employees in several ways. By placing consumers at the center of ever thing they do through the product they produce that improve their lives on a daily basis. Products like Kleenex, Scott, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Poise and Depends rank high in essentials for consumers today. Kimberly-Clark also gives back to the community through donations to the Boys and Girls Club as well as giving back to the community through jobs and improving and shaping the lives of families. They also support consumers for a stand point of disaster relief in neighborhoods through donations of food, clothing, and financial contributions. From and environmental aspect Kimberly-Clark produce product form all natural wood products, and recycled fibers for third party certified forest systems. These systems are Forest stewardship council (FSC) and also another system includes Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI). These organizations are associated with the Greenpeace and Wildlife Funds. Also environmental alternative fibers are used from bamboo and agricultural waste fibers such as wheat straw are used. The disaster relief efforts also help the environment through first response efforts supported by Kimberly-Clark to The American Red Cross. Employees with Kimberly-Clark are considered the most valuable resource and the center...
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...Beren Robinson Field Study Paper In the field study of Beren Robinson there where many important aspects of the tests performed, including how species adapt and morph during certain environmental situations. One of the main aspects was taking the species out of its natural habitat to see how they perform under specific environmental changes. In this particular study these included location change, water depth and also food type. The study also showed relation to ecology and evolution because the relationship between the species and the environment was tested to discover possible evolution along with the two being heritable. As far as evolution it displayed original characteristics along with evolved ones of the similar species once switched into a different setting. Some of the original observations found by researchers included samples from the open-water habitat differed morphologically from those species sampled from the shallower near shore waters. The question of study would have been does the constraints of the different environments pose threat or is responsible to the evolution of the species. While “Robinson hypothesized that these individuals represented distinct phenotypes that are products of natural selection promoting divergence within the population” (Robinson, 2000). The variables in this study where the three spine stickleback species from both the limnetic form and benthic form. The research findings presented in this case study was done by observing the...
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