MS MUN: Environment

Discusses the carbon footprint of waste and pollution and ways that the environmental impact of waste and pollution can be reduced.

This book explores the ways in which we are depleting the planet's resources, and the need to use them in a sustainable manner. Can we meet all our needs and wants without destroying our forests and fisheries?

It is common wisdom that successful organisations adjust quickly and intelligently to shifts in consumer tastes, political climate, and economic opportunity. In this text, Michael Fullan lays out factors that allow an organisation to sustain meaningful change.

What is globalization? What are the effects of globalization on rich and poor countries? How can you make your voice heard in the globalization debate? This title looks at the roots of globalization and how it has changed through history up to the present. It considers how globalization affects different countries around the world today. The book then explores the arguments made by both sides in the debate and assesses the effects of globalization on the environment and culture. Finally, you can find out how globalization could affect you and learn more about the issues involved.

The debate about global warming is over. There is no longer any question that human activity is causing the Earth’s climate to heat up at an increasingly rapid rate, with consequences that we are now only beginning to understand. Meanwhile, human population growth is placing unsustainable demands on everything from animal habitats to water supplies. In The Middle Path, noted geographer Eric Lambin provides a concise, readable summary of the present state of the environment and considers what must be done if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.

This is an updated guide to natural disasters around the world. It provides a comprehensive survey of the natural calamities that have ravaged mankind and altered the course of human history.

Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world's middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is "hot, flat, and crowded." Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things--unless the United States steps up now and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green.

This book is part of a series. Other books in the series include using animals for entertainment, food and clothing.

InThe Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, award-winning author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola’s inspiring crusade to stop a multinational corporation in its tracks. Ferocious in her passion, she and her confederates–a ragtag army of courageous locals and eccentric expatriates–endure slander and reprisals and take the fight to the courtroom and the boardroom, from local village streets to protests around the world.