Assignment 1 Environment Impact Assessment 72296/A Paul Cronin 3319860 Paul Cronin 3319860 Introduction The purpose of this essay is to critically assess the approach that New Zealand has taken with the application of Environmental Assessment (EIA). The first part of this essay will identify and review the introduction of EIA in New Zealand and look at it’s history. The next section will identify and discuss the purpose and principals of EIA. The next part of the report will then
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Discuss the view that the impact of earthquake hazards depends primarily on human factors (40 marks). It is impossible for anybody to argue that human factors do not have an effect on the impact caused by earthquake hazards; however the extent of the effect is debatable depending on the situation. This can depend on many different aspects‚ for instance the level of development in the relevant country‚ the standard of infrastructure‚ the magnitude and location of the quake and lastly what time
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1. Define what is meant by the term “natural hazard”. A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. 2. Provide a brief description of the type of hazard you have been allocated. Bushfires: A bushfire is a large out-of-control fire occurring in areas with large amounts of flammable vegetation. Bushfires are hard to control as the right weather conditions and wind direction can cause a bushfire to spread from the
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A fire occurred in a transformer vault that supplied power to a pesticide storage warehouse. The warehouse also caught fire. The warehouse was located in a rural area. There was a river adjacent to the warehouse that was the source of drinking water for a town downstream of the warehouse. The chemical products that were used in the transformer and the chemicals that were stored in the warehouse were all industrial strength and were supposed to be handled with extreme caution. All of these chemicals
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Community Environment Issue Student Name SCI/275 August 11‚ 2013 Mouna DiBenedetto Community Environmental Issue Central Texas‚ especially Travis County‚ has been under drought conditions since La Niña‚ a weather pattern where the surface temperatures are cooler in the Pacific ocean‚ thus creating drier weather in the southern part of the United States‚ in 2011 (StateImpact‚ n.d.). Although this type of weather pattern is typically combated with the arrival of El Niño‚ which has the opposite
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Differences between natural hazards and natural disasters 1 A hazard is an event or object that is a potential source of harm to community. A disaster occurs as the result of a hazardous event that dramatically affects a community. Natural Hazards Human Hazards Atmospheric – eg cyclones‚ hailstorms‚ blizzards or bushfires. Technological – accidents‚ explosions or hazardous materials. Hydrological – eg example‚ flooding‚ wave action or glaciers Human – eg. War‚ crowd stampede and terrorism
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Hazards‚ risks‚ outcomes The terminology used in OSH varies between states‚ but generally speaking: • A hazard is something that can cause harm if not controlled. • The outcome is the harm that results from an uncontrolled hazard. • A risk is a combination of the probability that a particular outcome will occur and the severity of the harm involved. “Hazard”‚ “risk”‚ and “outcome” are used in other fields to describe e.g. environmental damage‚ or damage to equipment. However‚ in
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PLASTICS BAGS IN UGANDA Uganda is a country in east Africa with a population of about 20 million‚ plastics bags have been around in Uganda as far as I can remember‚ they are commonly called “kaveera’ in uganda. However plastic bags have caused threat to the citizens of Uganda‚ they pose a danger to the environment and violates the rights of the citizens of Uganda to a clean and healthy environment. They have contributed to the largest pollution in Uganda‚ in that 75% of the rubbish on the kampala
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There are several environmental impacts of Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is undermined by the exhaustion of the rainforests encompassing the Canal. The Canal keeps running on new water‚ which just originates from Lake Gatun amidst the canal. The rainforests supply a consistent wellspring of new water to the lake. The Canal Zone is the territory encompassing the waterway and which has been shielded from consumption for a long time by the way that the zone was under United States control as army installations
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task I will be explaining the impact of antisocial behaviour on the communities and the individual. P4: Public perception of crime (own experience‚ media influence); The public perception of crime can be influenced by the media as they can make a situation bigger than it originally is. Depending on the situation the public‚ could be affected in a bad way. For example if a gang is persistently committing crimes then the community will be aware of this. Communities will judge crimes by how the
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