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A Review of Berkes' Perspectives on Ecology

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

Lisa Steinberg Case of Domestic Abuse

scene when an emergency call had come to the police about six year old Lisa Steinberg (Gross, Powell & Daley, 1987). She had stopp...

Ecological Theory of Human Development

This is a proposal for a study that will focus on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of human development. The paper includes theo...

Accepting the Harsh Realities of Global Warming

Global warming is one of the most concerning issues of our time. It is also one of the most controversial. The contention...

The Ocean Basins

"deepest waters above oldest oceanic lithosphere" (Allen, 2004). Imagine that one were one shore and walking out into the ocean; a...

Green Buildings and Sustainable Design

The built environment has a significant impact on general ecological environment, causing damage and pollution with the construct...

History and Ecology of the Chimpanzee

hominids" (Anonymous, 2002). Chimpanzee hunting ecology is intermingled with their history as a species, in that their inherent a...

Texas' 11 Ecological Regions

marshes. 5. Coastal Sand Plains - This is a most unique region in that it is adjacent to the Laguna Madre: "the only coastal, h...

Social Ecology v. Deep Ecology

18). As this suggests, the central concern of deep ecologists is to encourage the development of a sense of identification with na...

Ecological and Economic Impacts of Food Choices

I also purchased honey produced in the state and coffee roasted from a local business. My thought was that these efforts to chang...

Nursing and Social Ecology

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Ecological Modernization Theory

or sphere" as distinct from the three foundational analytical spheres that define modern society, namely, "political, economic and...

Consequences of Overusing Natural Resources

the relationships among species in some ecosystems by weakening links in the food chain. Many species could be at risk"(Grossman 8...

La Nina, El Nino, and Ecological Impacts

the number and severity of cyclones, disruptions to fisheries and destruction of coral reefs, flooding, mudslides, death inflictin...

Endangered Species Conservation, Cultural, Economic, and Political Constraints

interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. According to Berkes (1993), "traditional ecological kn...

3 Human Development Domains

1. The Microsystem: these are the settings in which the individual lives with differentiated roles in each setting. These are the ...

Plastic or Paper/A Research Proposal

the origins of the bag materials. Paper is renewable; plastic, of course, is not. All products based on fossil fuels are suspect...

Keystone Species, Bimodal Distribution, and Competitive Displacement

occur even if resources were not limited. However, other regulatory factors such as temperature, humidity, food quality and so on ...

Article on Teen Birth Rates Analyzed and Critiqued

they posit that in order to reduce teen birth rates, it is imperative that there should be further comprehension regarding the sig...

Westward Settlement and Environmental Effects

Americans from the land). In addition, during the early part of the century and by Congressional Act, the U.S. forbid fore...

The Impact of the Growing World Population on the Supply of Fresh Water

cycle, nitrogen cycle and water cycles have been disrupted or destroyed, and those are just the cycles that are known. It may not ...

Secondary Succession and Farmland

in ecosystems, which is the overall environmental unit that functions (Homestead.com, 2004). This can be seen in terms of ...

Two Theories, Domestic Violence

This paper pertains to two theories that explain the causation of domestic violence, feminist theory and the social-ecological mod...

Is Organic Food Really Better

This paper looks beyond the popularity of organic food and towards the more applicable issues. Ecological balance is one of the m...

Definition of Ecological Footprints

consideration how rich countries use trade and technology to import resource they do not possess (Holtzman, 1999). Other factors...

Canadian Arctic and Toxins Bioaccumulation

many threats, perhaps one of the greatest is the slow bioaccumulation, or bioconcentration, of toxins in the Arctic primarily from...

Ballast Water and Invasive Species

and the Issue Group on Sustainable Shipping (IGSS) are the coordinating agencies seeking the cooperation of the European Union, OS...

Sustainability, Economic Stability, and Regulation in International Fisheries

world society as though they were controlling the pieces on a chessboard, every individual in that great game of chess has the inn...

Questions in Social Organization

of change relates to many factors, one of which is the changes which occurred over time in agriculture. Additional exampl...

Green Burials: An Economic, Ecological, and Moral Alternative

of a clinical phenomena, a phenomena for which there is little involvement either of the person dying or of that persons family an...