Should humans add themselves to the endangered species list? The planet Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Modern humans have only existed on this planet for 200,000 years, or .004% of the Earth’s lifetime. In this short period, humans have made a greater impact on the environment than any other species. Humans not only consume most of Earth’s resources, but destroy them as well. Without these resources, humans would not survive. Human survival is also threatened by their tendency to
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progression of warfare from chemical weapons to nuclear weapons has increasingly created stress on ecosystems and the environment such as Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Agent Orange is one of the potent herbicides used as a defoliant by the U.S. military in its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War. The name Agent Orange comes from the containers that it was stored in, which had an orange stripe. The U.S. military deployed almost 20 million gallons of
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SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH AS A UNIQUE TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY IN THE CAT BA BIOSPHERE RESERVE OF VIETNAM Thanh Van Mai Bosch O.J.H School of Integrative Systems, The University of Queensland, QLD 4343, Australia Corresponding author (thanh.mai@uqconnect.edu.au) ABSTRACT Tourism is not simply an industry, but is an open, dynamic and complex system. The system consists of many interacting components and involves many different stakeholders. The development of tourism
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Trần Hải Yến tranhaiyen152@yahoo.com Lê Minh Phương lephuong1230@yahoo.com Trần Hương Trà thtra279@gmail.com October 21th, 2012 Contents I. Introduction 1 II. Content 2 1. Current situation in Vietnam 2 2. Business project 4 a. Background 4 b. Challenges and Opportunities 4 c. Process 5 d. Product 6 3. Impact evaluation 6 a. Impact on environment and ecology: 6 b. Impact on the local economy: 7 III. Conclusion 7 Abstract
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The tourism industry in Vietnam ------------------------------------------------- Group 1 Nguyễn Trọng Nhật Nguyễn Đức Huy Lê Ngọc Dũng Vũ Phương Thảo Phạm Việt Anh Lê Đắc Linh ------------------------------------------------- Contents I. Introduction II. Using PESTEL to analyze opportunities and threats of Vietnam tourism industry 1. PESTEL: a. Political b. Economical
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Research Report – Open wholly owned subsidiary in Vietnam. Name: Van Huan Tran. 3897340 Vo Long Dang. 3877636 Tat Tuan Ngo. 3904251 Executive Summary: This report was developing to open wholly owned subsidiary in Vietnam. To provide a complete analysis to make sure information, this report will explore the summary of the business environment as the economy, legal systems, and cultural issues, as well as the government of Vietnam. This report aims to present to the board of
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instead of demolishing it, due to the serious industrial pollution, natural resource depletion and encouraging the development of the economy. Initially, one of the most significant important reasons why the government should save the environment is the serious industrial pollution. The first point is that the pollution of air, water and soil pollution suddenly cause some fatal health problems. There is no disputing the fact that the pollution has a tremendous surge in the human life because of a long
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Philippine mangrove forests play a highly specialized and intricate role in tropical coastal ecosystems. Mangroves are characterized by a species of tree that have adapted to grow in tidal flats, bordering the ocean. Mangroves thrive in the salty coastal water, where other plant species would die. Aquaculture practices in the Philippines have had negative impacts on mangrove tracts, resulting in more than 337 000 hectares lost since 1925 (Samson and Rollon, 2008). The removal of mangroves for aquaculture
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Invisible Hand in the Vietnamese context Introduction Adam Smith is an infamous political economist in the UK and around the world. He has many valuable arguments among which this essay will refer to the theory of "invisible hand" which was coined in The Wealth of Nations. The invisible hand is essentially a natural phenomenon that guides free markets and capitalism through competition for scarce resources by maintaining equilibrium between the supply and demand of resources. Also, as market participants
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change, reduce air pollution that harms public health, and provide greater certainty about Clean Air Act permitting requirements for the oil and natural gas industry. The proposals are part of the agency’s broad-based strategy under the President’s Climate Action Plan to reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane and smog-forming volatile organic compounds from this rapidly growing industry. The proposal will complement rules the agency issued in 2012 to reduce pollution from the oil and
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