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THE ROLE OF CITIES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The Role of Cities in Sustainable Development
The Role of Cities in Sustainable Development
Introduction
Cities have been for some time a vital focus of efforts to address anthropogenic global warming through sustainable investment. For instance, a recent report by the United Nations Finance Initiative ...
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Climate Change
Introduction
Climatic change is a serious topic today. Media is focusing on it.s Awareness is being created among people so that they can save the world. Climatic change is often referred as global warming. Global warming is causing many drastic changes in the planet earth. Despite the facts, there are ...
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Global Governance of Climate Change
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[Name of the Institute]Global Governance of Climate Change
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Cities and Global Climate Change examines the role of cities and city networks in implementing climate change policies. The authors believe the discussion on the process of global environmental governance has been dominated by a hierarchical approach that gives primacy to the role of national ...
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MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
Municipal Solid Waste
Municipal Solid Waste
Introduction
With an increase in the overall population of the world, we have seen a sudden increase in the M.S.W (municipal solid waste), which is our trash. A M.S.W may contain wastes such as food, containers in organic wastes etc. the municipal solid waste does ...
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Food & Water
Food & Water
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1.Which items of food make up the bulk of your diet? How many of these are produced locally? Which countries are the other items from? What proportion of your food choice is organic? For the latter question, how important is it to you ...
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Evaluation of human influences
Interpretation of water-quality data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Neuse River, North Carolina, has identified water-quality variations, characterized the current condition of the river in reference to water-quality standards, estimated the degree of pollution caused by man, and evaluated long-term trends in concentrations of ...
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Climate change and Nutrition
Climate Change and Nutrition
Introduction
“Climate change” is closely related to “global warming” but can be thought of as a more complex set of phenomena, many of which are directly dependent on global warming. Discussed elsewhere in this volume, global warming is a phenomenon that results from radiative forcing ...
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Environmental Issues: Should cars be more efficient?
Environmental Issues: Should cars be more efficient?
Introduction
In the advent of Industrial revolution, no one could comprehend the negative implications of one of the major juncture in the human civilization. Applications of Fossil fuels reached an entirely new level completely ignoring the downsides of excessive ...
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Limiting Temperature
Limiting Temperature
Introduction
The seventeenth annual United Nations Climate Change Conference that is also known as the seventeenth conference of the parties or COP 17, took place in Durban, South Africa in December 2011.
In the past, west has usually shown that giving a price for something now that would prove to ...
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Environmental Impacts
Environmental Impacts
Introduction
Wind farms have received public and government support as alternative energy sources because they do not contribution to air pollution, which is typically associated with fossil fuel technologies. At the end of 2008, the global wind energy capacity surged by 28Æ8% and the total installed capacity reached 120Æ8 ...