Introduction: Western Port Bay, is a large bay in the south of Victoria in Australia that opens into the Bass Strait, and it is the second largest bay in the state. It is also the most southern in which mangroves can be found in Australia. The bay struggles with the effects of climate change as … Read more
Draft 1.0 Introduction In communities and rural areas where there is no surface water, where groundwater is deep or too salty, acidic or is generally unpleasant to drink, another source of clean water must be sought. In areas that experience regular rainfall and the least air pollution, the most sustainable and appropriate alternative is the … Read more
Climate change has arisen to be a topic of concern for the past years. Like other controversial topics, some support this idea while others reject it. When it comes to this, people of higher authority may exert their power and position in order for their personal agenda and not the greater good as a whole. … Read more
Introduction Plastic pollution is something in which is highly recognized worldwide as a problem for our seas and for our future, but what most people fail to notice is that it is not the only culprit as to why our marine ecosystems are deteriorating. As the climate begins to change drastically and global warming becomes … Read more
CBA Jamaica: Reducing Climate Change-Driven Erosion and Landslide Risk through Sustainable Agriculture (JCDT) The community based adaptation objective is to integrate climate change risks into sustainable community management of natural resources by strengthening the resilience of communities addressing climate change impacts and to generate knowledge and lessons for replication and up scaling. Three impact indicators … Read more
The world is imperfect as it is lead and managed by imperfect people making challenges, which is inevitable. Success is often defined by the wise, not by avoidance of challenges but by how one responds to challenges, and this applies to countries as well. Countries are constantly managing forces that challenge their stability; economic, political, … Read more
Imagine a society knowingly driving itself towards destruction, too stubborn to divert away from its current path. This sounds like a bleak science fiction movie, but it also describes the current state of humanity as it draws nearer and nearer to a climate change catastrophe. Almost everyone agrees at this point that climate change is … Read more
Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate — poverty, disease, ignorance.” Climate change is indisputably correlated to a rise in terrorism. Climate change, a shift in overall temperature of the Earth, directly impacts terrorism in a … Read more
High Seas Conservation at the Bottom of the World: Collaborative Governance, Participatory Mapping, and Conservation Opportunity in the Southern Ocean The Context: The Sixth Mass Extinction In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that according to the IUCN Red List between 12% and 52% of various well-studied, higher-order taxa were at risk of extinction (Mace … Read more
The human population’s unnatural acceleration of global warming has the potential to yield quite disastrous and widespread effects. Global warming is an important issue because it will deliver consequences to anyone and anything living on Earth. However, people who have the most influence on this issue cannot seem to meet and discuss the issue at … Read more
Abstract I constructed a question for this project that is currently becoming a cause for global discussion. I am very interested in the geographical aspects of our world as it is surprisingly unpredictable at times. In the past couple of years we have seen an increase in the world death toll due to natural disasters … Read more
The issues of global warming and climate change are prominent in society today, as they are becoming increasingly more intense, affecting ways of life. One place where climate change and global warming have a major impact is the arctic. That arctic is warming at intense rates, affecting its environment and habitats, raising the global sea … Read more
There is harm being done to the earth all over right this exact second. What is bringing on the harm? Worldwide environmental change contributes an extraordinary measure of demolition to the world consistently. This is vital in light of the fact that the change is influencing people, creatures, plants and pretty much whatever else that … Read more
The earth’s climate has been changing throughout the beginning of time. Over time the earth has shown trends of warming and cooling due to the amount of solar energy the earth obtains. The current warming trend is abnormal because average temperatures are rising at a rate higher than ever recorded, and as a result are … Read more
July 30th, 2018 Question: “What are the main causes of climate change and why is it so difficult to address this problem? What are the possible second and third order consequences of mitigation and adaptation response strategies that could be implemented to minimize the impacts of climate change?” I. Introduction Climate change is happening now. … Read more
