Discuss ways to protect endangered animals.

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Discuss ways to protect endangered animals.

Evaluate opposing viewpoints regarding the process called “Fishing Down the Marine Food Web.

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Evaluate opposing viewpoints regarding the process called “Fishing Down the Marine Food Web.”

Describe an environmental issue relating ocean health, outline the issue’s potential impacts on sustainability of marine systems and climate change, and identify potential short- and long-term solutions.

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Ocean Health Paper

Assignment: Ocean Health Paper

Students describe an environmental issue relating ocean health, outline the issue’s potential impacts on sustainability of marine systems and climate change, and identify potential short- and long-term solutions. Students may select their own topic or choose one from a list provided by the instructor. This assignment increases students’ awareness of factors affecting ocean health and the potential impacts to sustainability of Earth’s natural processes. Students are assessed on their ability to apply course concepts, synthesize supporting evidence, reflect on diverse perspectives, and write cohesive paragraphs including a thesis statement that is fully supported throughout the paper.

Topic: Ocean Health and Climate Change 

The oceans make up over 75% of the world’s surface and the health of these bodies directly affect life on planet Earth. For this assignment, choose an issue from the list below and narrow it further into a clear research topic.

The paper must include the following information:

  • Outline the issue’s potential impacts on sustainability of marine systems and climate change
  • Identify potential short- and long-term solutions.

The paper must include the following elements:

  • Title page
  • Abstract
  • Reference page with at  least four scholarly sources
  • Formatted in APA Style.

Please pick one topic from the list below:

  • Keystone species
  • Tourism and human leisure activities
  • Overfishing
  • Sea temperature
  • Pollution
  • The effects of rising levels of mercury in the marine food chain
  • Unsustainable aquaculture
  • Marine engineering and oil drilling
  • Destruction of marine habitats
  • Ocean acidification or coral bleaching
  • Marine wetlands
  • Implications of mining deep sea mineral resources
  • How the Law of the Sea is addressing ocean health
  • The impacts of melting sea ice and icebergs
  • The findings of ice core analysis
  • Earth’s heat budget
  • Technology used
  • Wave power
  • Tidal power
  • Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone or other marine environments
  • Marine organisms
  • Effects of climate patterns impact commercial fisheries
  • Antarctic ozone hole

Write a 500-600 word explanation of the following passage from Kant’s GMM

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Write a 500-600 word explanation of the following passage from Kant’s GMM [all other parameters and rubrics are the same as for the first writing assignment]:

“Thus a good will seems to constitute the indispensable condition of being even worthy of happiness.” (Groundwork, First Section)

Explain how Landscapes Prevent And Prepare For Crises:

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Explain how Landscapes Prevent And Prepare For Crises: The Role Of Bunkers.

How will climate change influence aquatic systems?

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There is a choice of essay topics of which you must complete ONE: How will climate change influence aquatic systems? What is aquatic biodiversity and why is it important to preserve it?

What effect does increasing population have on pollution and, central to this course, how does this affect human health?

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Do you feel we are nearing the Earth’s carrying capacity for our species?

What effect does increasing population have on pollution and, central to this course, how does this affect human health? Pick one of these topics to discuss in detail, focusing mainly on the human health aspect, and change your title to reflect your topic:
Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Soil Pollution
Habitat Loss
Noise Pollution
Light Pollution
Radioactive Pollution
Thermal Pollution

Provide a very brief profile of the case and list the criteria you have used to assess the importance of this problem and to consider for a risk assessment. How could it be assessed and how does it relate to decision making and policies?

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1. Introduction on Vitamin D deficiency in the U.A.E
2. how you think it constitutes an environmental/health risk. Identify causes related to Vitamin D deficiency (human, processes, systems, policies).
3. Provide a very brief profile of the case and list the criteria you have used to assess the importance of this problem and to consider for a risk assessment. How could it be assessed and how does it relate to decision making and policies?
4. a brief SWOT analyses (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) of the methods applied to analyze the risks related to the case.
5. Solutions and recommendations for the reducing or eliminating the risks of Vitamin D deficiency in the U.A.E

Explain the shift in mitigation strategies from the Copenhagen COP of 2009 to the Paris Agreement of 2015 and to what extent it relates to changes in perceptions of “development” and divisions between developed and developing countries.

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Your list of explanations for the shift would need to be justified and prioritised (i.e. you explain why you have chosen them, and which are the most to least significant, if ranking them is helpful). Of the likely explanations, the question itself hints at a significant one: changes in perceptions of dev and divisions between dev’ed and dev’ing countries. it is NOT about how ideas of development have changed over time, but how the change in status of the BRICS, especially China, undermined the entire framework of Kytoto (which was basically set up on the premise of good vs bad guys). What happens when a supposed dev’ing country becomes one of the largest emitters in the world: the geopolitics of this made it impossible to continue with the Kyoto approach. Also it may be worth assessing the problem that both agreements treat countries as the accounting unit: emissions are added up for a country, not for where those emissions are ‘consumed’. China is producing ‘our’ emissions but this is not considered.