Abstract
The paper presents an assessment of selected issue fronts concerning Hurricane Katrina, focusing on human and environmental issues. The paper discusses the ineffective response of government agencies, notably Homeland Security and FEMA. It also highlights the physical facts of a hurricane.

From the Paper
"When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in August and September the response of government agencies was ineffective and became politically controversial . The winds of the Category storm did great damage and the city's flood-control and energy ..."

Tags:Hurricane Katrina, FEMA, Homeland Security

disaster planning, government

environment

Abstract
Genetically modified foods have emerged as a topic of great controversy in recent years. As agricultural technology grows by leaps and bounds, the presence of enhanced and or modified foods becomes more ubiquitous at grocery stores and on dinner tables. However, this proliferation has been met with concern by many people who fear that the new foodstuffs will have environmental ethical and human consequences that the proponents of such items are as yet dimly aware. This paper explores the environmental implications of genetically modified food.

Tags:genetically, modified, foods

Abstract
The paper shows that fuel cells offer tremendous promise and potential as an energy source. Among topics covered in this paper include: How fuel cells operate, why they are cleaner than a combustion powered engine and the research that is currently being conducted to advance this technology. The paper also lays out the roles the federal government, automakers, and oil companies are playing in investing in fuel technology. It also discusses the problems that need to be overcome in order for the use of fuel cells to meet their full potential as an energy source.

From the Paper
"In summary once the fuel cell market begins to take off, the impact can snowball. Using hydrogen to combine such renewable energy sources with highly efficient fuel cell cars would impact many industries such as the automobile, oil, electricity and natural gas. Furthermore, an added benefit of fuel cell will be the elimination of carbon dioxide that are produced by gas powered engines, instead the only by product produced here would be water. In fact this water will be safe enough to drink because it will be pure. Research will continue to advance the potential of fuel cell as a dependable long term energy source."

Tags:conservation, environment, hydrogen, IFC, PEM, Fuels, Cells

Abstract
This paper discusses issues of environmental protection and control as they affect our business, social and individual decisions. It shows that the long-term goal of environmental ethics must be to develop a logical approach to ethics that will manage to convince mankind of the benefits of resolving pertinent and dangerous issues through sound and ethical policy-making decisions.

From the Paper
"Environmental ethics is a field of study that provides guidance in the analysis of moral problems related to our natural environment (Sagoff, 1988). Since the early 1970s society has become increasingly aware that the numerous problems relating to our natural environment are critical on a variety of levels. Yet both traditional and contemporary decision-making tools have failed to protect us from the costs of environmental deterioration and crises. This is a situation that we can no longer afford to ignore."

Tags:nature, social, raw, materials, benchmarking

Abstract
This paper examines the current guidelines and issues facing airports and their relationship to the local environments. Although airports are a necessary part of today's fast-paced global environment, environmental pollution is the issue the Federal Aviation Administration and other government agencies must work together to try to solve. This paper looks at how these agencies have tackled and are tackling environmental issues.

From the Paper
"Airports are a necessary part of today's fast-paced global environment. It goes without saying that our world would certainly be a different place without them. Millions depend on them every day to get them to their destinations. However, airports have many negative effects as well, especially to the local environment. Airports are a source of smog, contaminate waterways, contribute to global warming through the emission of greenhouse gases, and generate significant amounts of noise pollution (NADC, 1996)."

Tags:issues, safety, policy, environmental, social, economic, consequences, airport, improvement, pollution

Abstract
In this article, the writer notes that it seems as though the US is falling deeper and deeper into a global energy crisis. The writer discusses that several possible energy alternatives exist, though additional funding is still required for the research and development of such sources of clean, renewable energy. The writer argues that, due to America's rising demands for energy, and the negative impact this demand for energy has on the environment, the United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives. The writer notes that such initiatives in changing our way of life take a substantial amount of time and resources; however, the benefits of renewable energy are incredible. Through the utilization of clean, renewable energy, the negative effects of global climate change will be reduced. The writer concludes that in an effort to preserve the healthy and well-being of the population in the future, additional funding toward the use of alternative sources of energy must be initiated.

From the Paper
"This movement simply urges automobile manufacturers to improve fuel efficiency by the year 2020, while ignoring the possible crisis of a petroleum shortage. The federal government must become aware of the limited time to take action in an increasingly dominant issue, and introduce new strategies of energy production and conservation.
"Among the nationwide demand for energy, automobiles top the list, and are of great concern. Carbon emissions, produced in a large part due to the millions of cars on the road, forms the basis of the issue knows as global warming. To many, is seems evident that climate change greatly threatens the Earth's future well-being if changes are not made."

Tags:efficiency, impacts, environment, oil

Abstract
Environmental policy is a highly contentious issue with unlimited constraining factors to contend with. Environmental issues continue to grapple with economic imperatives for policy superiority. This paper examines how the options available for managing environmental resources tend to volley between increasing regulatory frameworks or adopting a market based approach. The two options are explored along with examples of success or failure.

From the Paper
"Perhaps the most famous instance of using taxes to combat environmental problems is the case of The Tragedy of the Commons. Believing that pollution was the result of over population Garrett Hardin (1968) proposed a market response to rectify the problem whereby The Tragedy of the Commons could only be avoided by enforcing laws or taxes that would hold the commons accountable for their own actions. The primary goal was to make the treatment of pollutants cheaper than the mere disposal of them, at the heart of this was the notion of private property which in theory was supposed to deter people from damaging their own property by over grazing. In practice however Hardin's (1968) theory in his own words tends to 'favour pollution'. "

Tags:commons, conservation, decentralisation, framework, instruments, pays, regulatory, taxes

Abstract
The paper attempts to show how contemporary globalization (from the end of the Second World War onwards), is, on the whole, a positive force in global politics. The paper analyzes global inequality, transnational environmental issues and the threat of interstate armed conflict and then shows how contemporary globalization has had a positive influence on all of these issues.

From the Paper
"The inequality between the global south and the global north is perhaps one of the greatest issues faced by the global community today. This issue can be split into two sub-issues. The first sub-issue consists of the underdevelopment of the global south as compared to the global north. The extent of this contrast can be seen in some of the results of the culmination of the World Development Report 2006, the World Development Indicators 2005 and the UNDP 2005. These showed that firstly, while the countries of the global north have approximately 95% of their roads paved, countries of the global south have only 31% of theirs paved. Secondly, while 80% of the global north's population live in cities, this is true for only 43% of the global south. This clearly shows that infrastructure in the global south is largely lacking and the majority of its population is still rural."

Tags:global, inequality, environment, interstate, armed, conflict

Abstract
This research paper argues that global warming is a very real threat to the earth. The paper gives scientific evidence, shows examples of global warming?s effects today, and looks at ways that disaster can be prevented.

From the Paper
"One of the hottest topics in the United States is the issue of global warming. This issue, once discounted and ridiculed as the wild imaginings of over enthusiastic environmentalists and "tree lovers," is now being taken seriously by scientists, politicians, business leaders, and the American environmentalist community. Environmental scientists have been trying to warn these groups that our continued use of coal and petroleum products, as well as established business practices such as dumping industrial wastes into the air and waterways, would be the cause of a natural phenomena called the greenhouse effect, or global warming. Now, when the earth's biosphere is obviously suffering adverse ecological effects from a century of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane emissions, it is apparent to even the most skeptical anti-environmentalists that global warming is real."

Tags:environment, climate, pollution, ozone, deforestation, carbon, dioxide, Clinton, industry

Abstract
A discussion of the demand and supply of water market as well as the inefficiencies of water market as natural monopoly. This paper emphasises on methods to regulate natural monopoly and explains the few ways in which government should regulate natural monopoly. It discusses two distinct types of government policy, marginal cost pricing and average cost pricing. It also identifies the benefits and costs of each pricing method.

From the Paper
"Water is one of the most precious natural resources. Human beings are now becoming increasingly aware of the importance of water to their survival and its limited supply, especially in such a dry continent as Australia. Water market is not static as both exogenous (outside the market) and endogenous (inside the market) effects tend to result in shifts and movements of both the demand and supply curves (Materano and Atkinson: 1996). There are many factors that influence the quantity demanded and quantity supplied in the water market, not only the prices. Supply and demand are the forces that make market economics work. The basic model of supply and demand is the workhorse of microeconomics (Pindyck and Rubinfeld: 1989) because they determine the quantity of each good produced."

Tags:monopoly, natural, supply, demand, resource, cost, price, production