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    The discipline of Environmental History is found within various books, and many times these books do not use this history as their only starting point. By combining a multitude of studies and methodologies, authors explore the aspects of the environment and nature along with human interaction to understand how they commingle, affecting one another. In the following four books, scholars from varying backgrounds approach environmental history in a variety of ways in order to prove their thesis.

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    In recent days, certainly, the term environmental consciousness is one of the most utilized in various degrees in our society. It being in a conference of international leaders or a local neighborhood meeting, the matter of being environmentally and ecologically conscient became a mandatory measure. In a general sense, being conscious towards environmental issues is described as the ability to comprehend the environment one habits in, the actions and relationships among it, and the impacts the caused

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    Environmental sociology began to emerge in conjunction with the environmental justice movement. Environmental sociology can be defined as the study of how human societies interact with their environment. One important individual, Dr. Robert Bullard, acted as a key person throughout the environmental justice movement. He served as a technical advisor on civil right lawsuits and is now a professor at Texas Southern University. Because of his research dedicated to environmental issues pertaining the

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    Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), within the Canadian oil and gas industry, on both the Federal and Ontario Provincial levels. It factors in the necessary transportation, processes and infrastructure that will be be required for the implementation of the proposed investment. Strategic Environmental Assessment I. Transportation a. Federal & Provincial Rail Regulation b. Transatlantic ii. Refinery a. Partial Refinement Environmental Impact Assessment:

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    People throw away whatever they don’t need any more for more than hundreds and thousands of years, this reaches from the old medieval period where people throw their trash and feces on the street to the modern time where people throw plastic in the oceans or pollute the air with toxic gasses and carbon dioxide. In this paper, I will focuses on the challenges around the pollution of the air with carbon dioxide. The nature of this problem is the nature of the primary human behavior itself. Humans

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    does Brazil have more effective environmental agencies than the China? Both nations are different politically and cultural, however through their developments as nations their environmental policies are having different degrees of success. These countries are partly free, but Brazil has informal institutions including the Catholic Church that affects the political climate and has helped environmental agencies. China and Brazil have historically had similar environmental policy specifically in UN talks

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    Environmental scanning or Analysis involves business managers to study the external environment variables for attaining good result as business operates in an environment. It is also termed as environment monitoring. It is the process of gathering or collecting the information regarding organization, analysing it and forecasting the impact of all predictable trends in environmental changes. Successful marketing strategies are always dependent on such environmental scanning and marketing programmes

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    Environmental Engineering in Our Society Giselle Medrano   Environmental Engineering Giselle Medrano Sixth Grade Abstract Environmental engineering is a broad field that is used to improve environmental conditions. It is pursued with different types of engineering and sciences. I will be talking about several things in my essay. First, I will introduce the essay by discussing the history of environmental engineering and its alternative technologies. Second, I will go deeper into the description

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    The third phase of environmental education in Iran was from the years 1997-2005. This phase is also called Reformation Period and was marked by “sustainable development principle[s] [being] integrated with development policy,” (Shobeiri et al., 2014). The DOE was also reformed in 1998 to include the Division of Planning and Education. In 1996, Article 46 of the Executive Regulations of the Environmental Protected Law passed, and would “[offer] a National [award] [to] recognize[e] scientific and cultural

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    Perceived Environmental Uncertainty (PEU): Its value to modern management. Perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) is prominent in several business-related fields such as strategic management, accounting and information systems (Dess & Beard 1984, Harrison & Kelly 2006). Many management literature define uncertainty therefore as the “the unpredictability of both environmental and/or organizational variables that have a bearing on corporate performance” (Miller 1993, p.694, Tseng 2008). As a widely

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