This Chapter is from the volume: de Sherbiniin‚ A.‚ A. Rahman‚ A. Barbieri‚ J.C. Fotso‚ and Y. Zhu (eds.). 2009. Urban Population-Environment Dynamics in the Developing World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Paris: Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED) (316 pages). Available at http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/workshops.jsp#W2007 AN ASSESSMENT OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNIQUES: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
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Carbon dioxide is the main pollutant that warms our planet Earth. Living things produce carbon dioxide when they breathe. However‚ carbon dioxide is considered to be a harmful pollutant when linked with any vehicle‚ trains‚ power plants‚ as well as other various human activities that involve burning fossil fuels such as gasoline and natural gas. Studies have shown that In the past 150 years‚ such activities have released enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to raise its levels higher than they
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Carbon Footprint briefly defined is the amount of CO2 left behind after any human activity. They can be classified into primary and secondary footprints. [ (McLean 2008) ] Primarily‚ it is the direct emission of CO2 from burning fossil fuels or any kind of fuels. They are considered the main and biggest source of CO2 emission‚ thus the having biggest Carbon Footprints. [ (McLean 2008) ] The CO2 emissions from all products and their life-cycles are considered as secondary footprints. The life-cycle
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Assignment 1 – Environmental Footprint TABLE A. Ecological Footprint Footprint Results (Answers to the following 2 questions will be given upon completion of footprint) If everyone lived like you‚ how many planet Earth’s would we need? 4.2 To support your lifestyle‚ how many productive global acres area needed? 18.7 Ecological Footprint Breakdown (Values can be obtained by scrolling over pie chart generated at completion of footprint) Percent of emissions from Food 11% Percent of emissions
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My ecological footprint suggests that I am being sustainable and environmentally friendly. I need 1.38 fewer Planet Earths than the average person in Ontario in order to provide for my resources. Most of my footprint is based on food and services‚ from my almost everyday meat consumption and the large grouping of electronic devices and products I use every day. My footprint shows a Western lifestyle. Our lives here in North America are based around capitalistic ideals of materialism and over-consumption
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General What is the Ecological Footprint? The Ecological Footprint is a resource accounting tool used widely as a management and communication tool by governments‚ businesses‚ educational institutions and NGOs to answer a specific resource question: How much of the biological capacity of the planet is required by a given human activity or population? What does the Ecological Footprint measure? The Ecological Footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and sea area an individual
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CARBON CARBON MULTIPLE BOND PRESENTED BY: WASIQUE AZHAR MSC CHEM (2 SEM) Some basic concept Electrophile : a species with a region of positive or partial positive charge electron-poor Nucleophile: a species with a region of negative or partial negative charge electron-rich TO LERN OBJECTIVE : Elecrophilic Addition to carbon-carbon double bond Stereochemistry of Elecrophilic addition reaction Hydrogenation of double and triple bond Nucleophilic Addition to carbon-carbon double
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A carbon tax is a tax imposed on the carbon content of fuels. It is a form of carbon pricing. Carbon taxes are a possible cost-effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. From an economic outlook‚ carbon taxes are a type of Pigovian tax.They help to address the problem of emitters of greenhouse gases not face the full social costs of their actions. Carbon taxes can be a degenerating tax‚ in that it may directly or indirectly affect low-income groups disproportionately. The regressive impact
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Importance of the Ecological Footprint Everyone has desire‚ and it will never get satisfied. Because of our desire‚ we use all the resources we can reach or find to produce better product and develop the technology to make our life better and easier. Ecologists have warned us so many times‚ every action has its consequences. One day all the resources on the planet will deplete‚ if we keep on using the resource like this and speed up every year. We all understand the consequences but majority
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destructive nature. I will start by describing the carbon cycle and how elements of my lifestyle impact the cycle. Photosynthesis converts the Carbon dioxide gas that exists in the atmosphere and in dissolved water to organic carbon. Organic carbon is brought back into carbon dioxide gas by a process called respiration. There are sources of organic carbon underground in the form of fossil fuels‚ human emissions and volcanic activity brings the stored carbon back into the cycle. As a human being who feed
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