Academic papers on Environmental Issues & Ecology

Apalachicola Bay / The Threat Of Pollution From Inadequate Sewage Treatment
6 pages in length. Florida's Apalachicola Bay is in grave danger. The fact that raw sewage and toxic chemicals are floating around in its waters, contaminating the ecosystem that depends upon its flow for life-giving components, has played a...
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Thermal Formed Fiber
A 5 page paper discussing the benefits of some of the applications of this form of molded pulp. Stabilizing and molded packing materials of thermal formed pulp are not pristine white Styrofoam pieces, but rather similar structures in brown or...
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The Effect of the Price of Oil on Agricultural Commodities: A World View
A 7 page overview of the impacts of oil prices on commodity prices all over the world. Discusses fluctuation in the prices of coconut, soybean products, palm oil, copra meal, corn, wheat, sugar, coffee and other products. Emphasizes that one...
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The War for the Falklands: Altruism or Economic Control?
In 1982 Argentina invaded a handful of islands in the South Atlantic that supported a population of barely 2,000 humans (and approximately one hundred sheep for each human). Experts and non-experts were proposing theories that ranged from the...
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Britain
A 10 page overview of Britain
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Hydroelectric Dams: Their Intended Function and Resulting Environmental Effects
An 8 page discussion of dams, their function and their environmental impacts. Provides an extensive background on the Hoover Dam and provides statistics for dams around the nation. Identifies impacts such as habitat changes and changes in...
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Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria: Evolution and Occurrence
An 8 page overview of the trait of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Discusses the mechanisms for passing on this trait and describes one landfill site in detail where such bacteria are known to occur. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Overpopulation
A 5 page paper which examines the ethical issues of overpopulation. Issues addressed include the United States aid to foreign countries, benefits of any intervention, poverty ridden countries and their need to have more children, the population...
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Master Planning: The Role It Plays In Community Fire Prevention
6 pages in length. There was a time when small rural communities dominated the landscape, with individual houses dotted all throughout the inside and outskirts of town. Because each dwelling was significantly distanced from all others, it was a...
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Glass: Manufacture, Recycling and use in Architecture
A 5 page overview of glass, its manufacture and use in environmentally friendly architecture. Emphasizes the importance of recycling and stresses that the installation and design of projects which incorporate glass is critical to human health and...
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Alternatives for Municipal Waste
A 4 page paper, with a one page outline, which discusses the current conditions relating to municipal waste and the alternatives that are being implemented to deal with the problems. The most obvious type of implementation being put into use...
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International Environmental Law
This 6 page paper addresses the problems businesses face as environmental laws are implemented. The paper focuses on new European laws which might have an impact on U.S.-European trade. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Shell
This 5 page paper looks at the situation in the Niger Delta and the idea that Shell, and other multinationals, is not giving the people what they deserve in terms of oil profits. The paper assumes that a vice president at the Shell company needs to...
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Petroleum Products are More Expensive in Europe than the US
In 5 pages, the author discusses why petroleum products such as gas and oil are more expensive in Europe than in the United States. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Global Warming
On October 15, 1992, the United States became the fourth country, after Mauritius, the Seychelles, and the Marshall Islands, to ratify the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, committing us to an objective: 'Stabilization of...
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