Forests have a vital safety net role in time of needs. Forest degradation is a widespread global concern and an important contemporary issue for several United Nations (UN) organizations and conventions. Forest degradation is broadly defined as a reduction in the capacity of a forest to produce ecosystem services such as carbon storage and wood products as a result of anthropogenic and environmental changes (IPCC, 2003; Mosisa, 2015). Degradation of forest resources is an important society concern that
Land degradation is an indirect impact of factory farming. It is referred to pollution or degradation of quality of soils and land utility. Forest is cleared for growing of animal feedstock, for example, soy and corn (Ilea, 2008). These plants are not able to hold onto the soil, hence causing soil erosion and loss of the fertile top soil (World Wildlife Fund, n.d.). It is contested that both traditional cattle ranching and factory farming cause land degradation. Trees are cut down to make room for
Sustainable Development: The Interdependence between Nature and Society Goodland and Daly (1996) state that there is a unification between social, environmental and economic sustainability and the sustainable development thereof. Sustainable development can be defined as development that allows for the needs of the present generations to be met, without depleting our natural resources and thus conceding the needs of future generations (World Commission on Environment and Development). This refers
I intend to specialise in environmental law in the faculty of law graduate program at McGill University. Studying and researching on the need for proper implementation and enforcement of environmental legislations in order to curb the effect of solid waste on our health and environment is my research aspiration. The premises of environmental legislation is based on the facts that the amount of degradation of the environment has grown to enormous proportion and moreover, these legislations are made
Maintain Ecological footprint in Namibia The ecological footprint in Namibia has become an issue to which people destroy the environment necessary and unnecessary in order to fulfil their desires. In Namibia the ecological footprint is composed of housing footprint, carbon footprint and the footprint. What those activities we do practice that increases the ecological footprint in our country are some of the view that we have to know. Now let’s come together and fight to overcome or minimise the
Land degradation is the process of reducing or depleting the productivity capacity of land and caused by improper and poor farming system, improper land use system, deforestation, soil erosion, high population pressure and over grazing. The aim of this study was to assess aspects of land degradation and land management practices because, land degradation has been the most serious problem that has threatened the life’s of millions of people in Ethiopia. In the study area there is also a problem of
considerable benefits as simple as packaging to complex engineering material, traditional synthetic polymers (called often as plastics), such as polypropylene and polyethylene have been synthesized from non- renewable petrochemicals and are known to cause environmental concerns due to their nature of non-biodegradability [11]. Around 4% of oil and gas production of the world, a non-renewable resource, is used as feedstock for the plastic and about 3-4% more is expended to provide energy for the manufacturing
serious problem environmentally. Their degradation will reach more than thousands of years to decompose efficiently (Nanda, Sahu, 2010). Polyethylene remains in nature and end up in landfills because of their durability and light weight. However, some microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi have the ability to decompose plastic both natural and synthetic plastics (Ramesh, Pamila, 2011). In the recent years, there are many people concern over the environmental issues especially in disposal of plastics
live; and “development” is what we do in order to progress while living within that abode. The two concepts are inseparable. However many of the development paths of the industrialized nations are unsustainable. Many forms of development erode the environmental resources, such as land, water, forest and other natural resources, upon which they are based.
activities are not misleading to consumers or industry, and do not breach any of the regulations or laws dealing with environmental marketing. For example marketers in the US must ensure their green marketing claims can meet the following set of criteria, in order to comply with the FTC's guidelines. Green marketing claims must; 1. Clearly state environmental benefits; 2. Explain environmental characteristics; 3. Explain how benefits are achieved; 4. Ensure comparative differences are justified; 5. Ensure