By means of a case study of the Palestinian community living in Shabriha, this article demonstrates that the vulnerability to the environmental effects of this waste crisis ultimately stems from a legacy of violent conflict. Lebanon's fragile political order and history of protracted war have ...
Environmental scarcity and violent conflict: The case of Rwanda. Toronto: Project on Environment, Population and Security; Renner, M... R Vayrynen - Sage [in association with] the International Social Science Council 被引量: 92发表: 1991年 ContainingFear:TheOriginsandManagementofEthnicConflict For...
Yesterday, a violent hurricane 2.struck(strike) my hometown, 3.causing(cause) great damage to people’s property. After it left, 3,000 houses were destroyed in all, which left many people 4.homeless(home). Some people 5.were__buried(bury) under the collapsed houses. Rescuers came to ...
Violent conflicts over control of naturalresourcesmay flare up in many places if wedon’tlearn to live within nature’s budget. How we obtain and use energy is likely to play a crucial role in our environmental future. Fossilfuels(oil, coal, and natural gas) presently supply about 80% of...
Theriaca Magna MariannaKaramanou,GeorgeAndroutsos, inHistory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2014 4.3Theriac in the Medieval Period During the sixth and seventh centuries,theriacis referred to in several passages of the works of Aetius of Amida (502–575ce) and Paul of Aegina (625–...
When the environmental effects of capitalistdevelopment started to become clearin the 1970s, developers started talking about making development “sustainable,” meaning they wouldn’t use up resources or create waste faster than Nature could restore itself. It hasn’t happened. Since inventing the id...
Social Responsibility, the leading nonprofit CSR business association in the United States. It asks that its members “achieve commercial success in ways that honour ethical values and respect people, communities, and the natural environment. “Sustainability emphasises environmental and community ...
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average person generated about 2.68 pounds of municipal solid waste per day in the 1960s, which include food, plastic, and paper waste. This amount increased to 4.74 pounds in the 2000s, finally reaching 4.9 pounds in 2018. The disp...
An analysis of annual, quarterly, and monthly data for recorded crime in England and Wales yielded strong evidence that temperature has a positive effect on most types of property and violent crime. The effect was independent of seasonal variation. No relationship between crime and rainfall or hour...
giving subsidies for solar panels, things like that. I think our mandate, as well, as journalists, is to not only cover the naked truth about the environmental effects of climate change but also to push the initiatives that these very few companies in Indonesia are d...