Environment
The humanity has experienced an unprecedented level of scientific and technological progress in the last two hundred years. The progress, however, has been achieved with a heavy price. Human actions have significantly damaged the natural environment, leading to numerous problems such as pollution, climate change, diseases, and much more. Because of these developments, the subject of environmental management has become a critical one. Environmental managers therefore face certain challenges related to time pressure, uncertainly, and politics.
Time pressure is critical, as many environmental problems demand rapid decisions. This is especially the case when there is a natural disaster such as the nuclear accident in Chernobyl or numerous oil leaks from cargo ships in many parts of the world. The British Petroleum Gulf Oil spill in 2010, for instance, placed environmental managers at a critical position, demanding that they come up with the quickest solution. Sometimes, natural disasters may inflict irreversible damage to the environment or completely destroy a natural resource.
Environmental managers may be pressured to find quick solutions in numerous cases. One of the pressing problems in Canada today is the destruction of rare wildlife and habitat. There are hundreds of species of animals and plants in Canada that are at risk of disappearing. The risks for these wild species mostly stem from human contact. One the one hand, the growing population needs resources and modern human progress leads to environmental degradation. On the...
Global Environment Continue to Deteriorate? Given the planet's struggling economic and social conditions, the exploding population, the spreading plague of violence, the increasing depletion of natural resources (forests, etc.) and the urgent need for new energy resources, the ignorance towards conservation and sustainability, and the heating up of the planet, there is every reason to believe that the deterioration of the world's environment will indeed continue. That is not to
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