1. Enumerate and discuss the direct and indirect threats to Philippine biodiversity. Direct Threats • Illegal logging • Mining • Pollution • Oils spill • Introduction of invasive species • Overexploitation Indirect Threats • Infrastructure development • Rapidly increasing human population against a limited land base ➢ Indiscriminate logging literally changes the forest landscape. Although there has been a
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Major: Environmental Engineering We humans have a long history of polluting our air‚ water‚ and soil. This contamination not only hurts nature‚ but is dangerous to people. Luckily‚ environmental engineers are on the job. They use math and science to clean up the messes we’ve made and prevent new ones from happening. For example‚ they might figure out how to clean up toxic material that has seeped into the ground at an old gas station or design an effective way to treat wastewater. If you choose
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small business‚ but you were concerned about security. Well when it comes to installing a wireless LAN‚ there are several security threats that you should be aware of beforehand. There are four common security threats‚ which are drive-by hackers‚ war drivers‚ unprotected access points‚ and rogue access points. Drive-by hackers‚ which are the most serious threats of them all‚ are people that sit outside a company’s premises and intercept the firm’s data transmissions. They can also mount denial-of-service
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Environmental Scan – Lego and Harley Davidson MGT/498 Strategic Management November 14‚ 2013 Mario Ducret Environmental Scan – Lego and Harley Davidson Internal and external environments are very important for businesses operating globally due to local and external competitions. Healthy businesses must analyze their internal and external environments in their strategy formulation. Strategic planning requires that an organization must initially scan the environment for
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Environmental pollution is the biggest menace to the human race on this planet today. It means adding impurity to environment. The environment consists of earth‚ water‚ air‚ plants and animals. If we pollute them‚ then the existence of man and nature will be hampered. It is true that trees are being cut down rapidly. Our earth is becoming warmer. If pollution continues‚ the day is not far when our earth will be a boiling pan and become a desert. Or it will be covered with sea water causing destruction
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Environmental Accounting Where We Are Now‚ Where We Are Heading by Joy E. Hecht Interest is growing in modifying national income accounting systems to promote understanding of the links between economy and environment. T he field of environmental accounting has made great strides in the past two decades‚ moving from a rather arcane endeavor to one tested in dozens of countries and well established in a few. But the idea that nations might integrate the economic role of the environment into
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Environmental scanning is a strategy that the companies need to use in order to analyze new opportunities and changes. The information sources of environmental analysis data allow the companies to anticipate to events and plan for the future and anticipate changes. Comcast needs to understand the three main external environment components comprised of the remote ‚ industry and the operating environment. The remote environment is made of external factors where these factors have a lot of control over
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the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) covered employees are allowed to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid time off of work per year for a family health emergency or to care for a new baby without losing their job (or health insurance‚ if applicable). Many adoptive parents expect to depend upon this law’s protection when the time comes to bring their adopted infant home and begin bonding with them in the family home. Yet before the time comes to claim time off with intentions of returning to the job per
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Threat Increased competition Smart phones are easier to make now more than ever. More companies may enter the market‚ and competitors or even Samsung contractors can maneuver around patents to create similar devices. Samsung has linked product lines‚ which means that if one product line fails due to its own reasons other product lines will also suffer. Unlike Samsung‚ their competitors like Nokia has only focused in one segment and put much effort on it. Besides‚ the products made from China was
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Zambia in controlling the disasters or hazards and Conclude with suggested possible solutions to the discussed disasters or hazards. A ‘hazard’‚ by definition‚ is any event‚ phenomenon‚ or human activity that may cause loss. Natural and human induced factors may act together to create a hazard‚ sites Dilley et al‚ (2005). For example‚ earthquakes are normally considered to be natural hazards‚ but they can also be triggered by mining activities or the impoundment of large dams. A landslide can be caused
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