Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship key issues that are highlighted are the concerns of human interaction and use of the Earths resources overtime impacting the environment. These impacts are emphasised through the examples of land degradation, overuse of Earth’s resources, increasing rates of greenhouse gas emissions having major impacts on the environment. The issues stated within the reviewed article link closely with the values presented in the Australian university “Sustainable
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
benefits humans get from nature and it is crucial to understand and value the critical functions natural systems provide us. Ecosystems perform many services that are taken for granted and theref¬ore not valued in money. Examples are microorganism’s release of nutrients, their degradation of pollutants in air, soil and water, pollination of insects and vegetation, and water-regulating effects. Knowledge of the importance of different species and interaction works and what disappearances that can disrupt
people define the term ecological footprints in different opinions according to what effect and good doe’s ecological footprint has. The Ecological footprint is the impact of human activities measured in terms of the area of biologically productive land and water, food consumption, electricity use required to produce the goods consumed and to assimilate the wastes generated. An Ecological footprint measures the supply of and demand on nature, represent the productive area required to provide the
2.2 Causes of land use changes Land use change is usually a result of many combined factors arising from different phases of organisation. The combined causes of land use change differ with time, space and environment(Lambin et al., 2003). There are direct causes of land use change which includes population growth, economic growth and initiation of policy, laws ad legislations (Morara et al., 2014). 2.2.1Population growth Population growth has been the fundamental driver of land use change all
DEFORESTATION In the development country, the increasing need of a land space for agricultural, industrial and residential; and the most importantly urban development needs are required with the growing of population. In other terms, deforestation means that the clearing or felling of forest which covered by the tree plantations in order to accommodate agricultural, industrial or any urban development needs. Deforestation is primarily a concern for the developing countries of the tropics (Myers
household, industries, commercial establishments, hospitals and so on including urban runoff, effluent from agricultural activities, and land-based aquaculture. It also includes storm water. The term covers any water that has been adversely affected in quality and created by human. The sources of wastewater determines its characteristics and reuse possibility. For example, blackwater refers to wastewater from toilets while graywater is the wastewater from all domestic sources except toilets. However,
Panel on Climate change (IPCC) has predicted an increase in frequency and severity of climate related events such as storms, hurricanes, floodsc, landslides and cyclones as well as longer-term (slow onset) sea level rise, desertification, soil degradation as well as droughts and deficiencies of clean water.(Stojanov, 3) In turn this will result in people not being able to live and make a livelihood in certain parts of the world, forcing them to move elsewhere.
The consumption of poultry, egg, and seafood has all risen significantly, threatening the environmental sustainability of these markets (Brown, 1996). With seafood for example, it is evident that mass consumption of this product has pushed the oceanic carrying capacity past its limits (Brown, 1996). This issue is increasing the price of seafood commodities, and making future yields unpredictable. According to Brown (1995)
cause a huge global issue such as volcanoes, floods and drastic climate change. At present we won’t notice many changes even though there are some noticeable issues especially in climatic conditions. There are new and harmful species developing for example, in Bhutan there was an issue of a new worm known as ‘army worm’, the army worm outbreak, which mostly affected the crops and the vegetables. According to National Plant Protection Centre (NPPC), about 90 percent of crops were damaged by army worms