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State budgeting processes: phases, authorization, and implementation

The processes of writing policy and funding policy, which are essentially distinguished by the authorization of activities to implement policy and the budgetary appropriations that will fund the activities, are imperfectly aligned.

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Ideological differences between Texas Republican and Democratic parties

There are vast differences in the ideological beliefs of the political parties in Texas. Their stances on a number of issues ranging from education to immigration are vastly different. Furthermore, there relationship and views to the role of the Federal government are also substantially different.

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Environmental disruption from coastal development and human activities

The article by Cornelia Dean "The Aftermath: Costs of Shoring up Coastal Communities" discusses the issues of environmental conversation among populations living next to the sea. Many countries enjoy enormous continuous coastline as compared to others.

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Resource constraints and sustainability challenges in Nauru and Niger

The two countries that I have selected are Nauru and Niger. Nauru is an island in the South Pacific, which formerly had significant phosphate resource but those have now been depleted. There is some limited arable land around the fringe of the island, allowing for minimal crops and coconuts.

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Samsung's process improvement approach to environmental sustainability

A process is the steps to accomplish a given task. A process improvement is also strategy to make an operation of an organization to become better. In other words, a process improvement is the strategy of setting a program to make a work better.

~10 min read

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Environmental accounting benefits for chemical manufacturing companies

One of the strategies that an organization can employ to be environmental friendly is to integrate an environmental accounting in the conventional accounting system.

~8 min read

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1,361 words

Exploitation and destruction of forest and fenland ecosystems

Forests have long been exploited. They are harvested for their timber, or cleared for agricultural land, both activities being entirely destructive to the ecosystem.

~7 min read

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Sustainability initiatives and corporate responsibility in banking, insurance, real estate, and financial services

The objective of this study is to answer the question of what the Global Knights Top 100 list is and to examine sustainability initiatives in the banking industry, the insurance industry, the real estate industry and the financial services industry.

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Water scarcity: causes, environmental implications, and intervention strategies

The World Water Council estimates that approximately 1.1 billion people, which translates to one-sixth of the world population, lacks access to safe drinking water. Another 2.6 billion lack access to proper sanitation facilities (World Water Council, n.d.).

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Causes, effects, and solutions to China's air pollution

The purpose of this project is to determine the causes of, damages by and possible solutions to China's air pollution problem.

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