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The environmental and health impacts of fossil fuels disproportionately harm communities of color and low-income communities. ... Environmental and Energy Study Institute. 1020 19th Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036-6101 (202) 628-1400 phone (202) 204-5244 fax. info@eesi ...
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Global climate change is not a future problem. Changes to Earth's climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already having widespread effects on the environment: glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, river and lake ice is breaking up earlier, plant and animal geographic ranges are shifting, and …
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Indirect environmental impact occurs due to manufacturing materials, components, and products negatively affecting the environment. ... Nonetheless, a significant contribution will be made to the study of environmental factors, their significance for production and operation, and the adoption of measures to combat any …
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The analysis of energy consumption and its impact on the manufacturing process environment may be time-consuming and challenging. Based on industrial ecology theory, the environmental impact assessment can be made by two methods, namely, life-cycle analysis (LCA) and environmental impact assessment (EIA).
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The most important tool to evaluate the environmental impact of bioplastics and/or conventional plastics is life cycle assessment (LCA) ... An LCA impact study involves the assessment of global warming, human toxicity, abiotic depletion, eutrophication and acidification [117, 118].
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To do so, recently, a LCA study was performed on different types of meal where authors found that meals with a higher environmental impact contain red meat (Heard, Bandekar, Vassar, & Miller, 2019). In another investigation conducted in Denmark, Bruno et al. (2019) used LCA to estimate the carbon footprint of four diet scenarios …
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Ciliberto and his colleagues measured the overall environmental impact of the changes in chemical use that have resulted from the adoption of genetically modified crops, using a measure called …
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Institutional considerations. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) represented the first formal incorporation of the impact assessment process in a legislative form (O'Riordan and Sewell Citation 1981).The Act established an environmental policy to guide the activities of those Federal agencies whose actions had the power to affect people, …
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However, DFAD impact could have been counteracted by other environmental effects or could have acted on other biological processes than condition …
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Industrial Revolution | Impact, Effects & Consequences
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environmental science, interdisciplinary academic field that draws on ecology, geology, meteorology, biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics to study environmental problems and human impacts on the environment.Environmental science is a quantitative discipline with both applied and theoretical aspects and has …
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While there have been recent epidemiological studies and scientific reviews on the environmental and human health risks related to unconventional natural gas extraction in the United States (Adgate et al. 2014; Saunders et al. 2016; Shonkoff et al. 2014), there is a lack of systematic analyses of the environmental or health impacts …
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Mounting evidence shows that the environment can play an important role in mental health, yet comparatively few studies have focused on the mental or behavioral health outcomes of environmental stressors. The Interplay Between Environmental Exposures and Mental Health Outcomes, a virtual workshop held on February 2-3, …
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While this study seems to focus on local impacts, I fear that we may be in the process of creating a new environmental hazard in our efforts to avoid a known and established one (CO2 emissions). Removing energy from the atmosphere via wind turbines will have an impact on weather patterns as the scale of the removal increases.
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1. Introduction. The environment affects our health in a variety of ways. The interaction between human health and the environment has been extensively studied and environmental risks have been proven to significantly impact human health, either directly by exposing people to harmful agents, or indirectly, by disrupting life-sustaining …
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Meat consumption is rising annually as human populations grow and affluence increases. Godfray et al. review this trend, which has major negative consequences for land and water use and environmental change. Although meat is a concentrated source of nutrients for low-income families, it also enhances the risks of …
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This study assesses the impact of construction activities on the built environment of Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Qualitative research approach using non-participant observation was utilized ...
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Fast fashion as a global environmental justice issue. Environmental justice is defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, as the "fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of …
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Limited postwar restoration activities are also undertaken to reduce war-driven environmental impacts. The study highlights some good practices on how to manage the total environment during the warfare. Therefore, communities must share best lessons to remain in a sustainable peace, restore the war-damaged environment, and enhance …
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Ecosystem ecology is the study of questions about the living and nonliving components within the environment, how these factors interact with each other, and how both natural and human-induced ...
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1. Introduction. School buildings are critical environments whose environmental quality variables are susceptible to study, because of their impact on student learning outcomes [1].Furthermore, considering the importance of school buildings in the well-being and performance of people [2], it is important to study the …
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Learn how human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and causing widespread impacts on the environment, such as melting glaciers, earlier ice breakup, …
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From the study that deeply addresses such factors, their relevant impact on GHG emissions emerges (Egede et al., 2015) and it deserves further analysis. Furthermore, in most of the studies analysed, measures are based on lab driving conditions or on data provided by car manufacturers, rather than on real world driving conditions.
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The physical environment may also impact development through exposure to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or environmental toxins like lead. The child's home, neighborhood, state, and even land may be ...
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Learn how humans affect the physical environment with overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and deforestation. Explore the consequences of these impacts, such as climate change, soil erosion, and water quality, and the solutions to prevent or minimize them.
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The environmental impact of DLE should be assessed from brine pumping to the production of the pure solid lithium product. ... A study of membrane distillation and crystallization for lithium ...
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However, floods have some positive impacts on aquatic life as it results in nutrient deposition and favorable habitat for most species. Floods also leave after-effects on the macro invertebrates ...
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Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is defined as the systematic identification and evaluation of the potential impacts (effects) of proposed projects, plans, ... Scoping is done to limit the focus and scope of the EIA study. It defines and justifies the environmental aspects that may be selected for study, the methods that should be …
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What are the environmental impacts of food and agriculture? The visualization here shows a summary of some of the main global impacts: Food production accounts for over a quarter (26%) of global greenhouse gas emissions. 1; Half of the world's habitable land is used for agriculture. Habitable land is land that is ice- and desert-free.
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3.4.3. Environmental impacts . As shown in Table 4, based on the result obtained from the compressive analysis, the first environmental impact ranked of construction waste is environmental pollution (mean = 4.14). Waste generated on construction sites pollutes the environment by releasing chemicals and other materials …
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