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    of Environmental Communication in Public Sphere on Urban Youth in Gujarat 1 Introduction Environment has attained centrality in the national and international arena in the past few decades. The primary reason for this has been environmental degradation as a consequence of varied socio-economic, institutional and technological factors. The need for sensitisation is imperative and which can be substantially achieved through legislation and communication. Communication designs of environmental issues

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    this regard highlighted general and government specific aspects of the two determinants of environment, environment degradation and health. The aim of this paper is to highlight the environmental emergency that emerges due income inequality. The two aspects to be studied under this emergency would be increasing environmental deterioration through pollution and the relationship of income inequality with mortality. The basic theme of this paper is sustainability and how

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    The second criterion is quality. How has the ACA affected the ability of patients to obtain quality care? According to the White House, quality of care has improved in a couple of important ways (Somanader, 2015). First, they argue patients are healthier when they leave a hospital stay, describing how from 2010 to 2013, 50,000 fewer people have died as the result of hospital errors and infections. They also explain that new care models allow patients to access their doctor when they need to. However

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    Tamesha Barnes December 4, 2014 Paper #2 Environmental Health 301W "I pledge that I have neither given nor received any aid on this work_________Tamesha Barnes_________. Critique of Making Peace with the Planet Barry Commoner’s book, Making Peace with the Planet, was an “extremely accessible and hard-hitting analysis of the environmental crisis (Gold). Barry Commoner made an emotional plea with the public to stop wasting money, and valuable nonrenewable resources. With this book, he provided a

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    Resource Base” (p.449). The second premise is that the complicity of the concerns regarding the environment blocks the individual awareness of risk. He Concludes that a call for “education and consensus building” (P.472) in raising the environmental risk of awareness. Comparison and Contrast Environmental Environmental risk perceptions also allowing loss aversion, unrealistic optimistic attitude, and heuristic assist in understanding the way humans go towards their resource consumption problem.

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    1. How can Environmental Law be effectively enforced in Kenya? For environmental law to be effectively enacted in Kenya their needs to be emphasis on the need for a universal environmental ethic. There needs to be a concern on the ability to provide information that changes behaviour towards the environment i.e. not stopping at awareness creation but to also go through education & advocacy. This led to the enactment of the Environmental Management and Coordination Act. (EMCA). With the enactment

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    Racism In Cancer Alley

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    stream” (“Cancer Alley, Louisiana” 2006). Due to the many cancer cases, those who could relocate did and those who did not have privilege stayed back and endured the pollution without help from the government. Most of these citizens have little education, and even though there are about 136 facilities on site, unemployment was high (“Cancer Alley, Louisiana” 2006). Then, a few years later, another company planned to build a toxic complex on cancer alley and continued to do so until 1996. Despite

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    lifestyles. But now, people are starting to realize that eating meat is also harmful to the environment and our health. It has been said that becoming a vegetarian would help prevent cruelty to animals and reduce the impact on the environment. An environmental scientist named Thomas Robbins said “we can eliminate world hunger out of society if people were to maintain a vegetarian diet.” Producing and manufacturing beef tend to leave our environment to suffer from air and water pollution. Animals tend

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    (Anderson, 1997; Corbett, 2006; DeLuca & Delicath, 2003; Lester, 2010). This was in response to traditional news that overlooked or sensationalized much of what they did so environmental groups became more political savvy and sophisticated using media. Despite anti-environmental policy, public awareness grew, as did membership in environmental groups. By the 1990s, however, the news turned hostile toward these groups as a result public interest waned and many groups faced a decline in donations from large

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    no regard to consequence. The consequencing environmental changes mirror the growth of our populations and the intensity of economic activity between sovereign countries. The environmental degradation is of grave concern for it is being witnessed worldwide, significantly diminished life-supporting systems. Furthermore, human ecology has become complicated due to the inaccessibility population’s face for attaining resources. The issue of environmental health concerns all nations of the world since

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