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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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Environmental impacts of food waste, nuclear waste, and fossil fuels

The first waste product is organic food waste. This ends up in landfills, and there are a number of negative outcomes. Food waste releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Landfills are 20% of all methane emissions in the United States.

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Starbucks' strategic expansion into high-growth international markets

Starbucks ranks #196 on the Fortune 500, with $14.89 billion in revenue, $8 million in profits and a market value of $55.4 billion (Fortune, 2014). There are a number of different internal and external stakeholders of the company.

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Economic and social challenges in South Pacific island nations

Region that I have chosen is the South Pacific, or more broadly Oceania. If we exclude Australia and New Zealand, the two highly developed economies, this region is characterized by island nations, mostly small, with tiny economies.

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Freeman's stakeholder theory versus firm value maximization approaches

I do not think it is necessary to have a single-valued objective function. Maximizing firm value is not mutually exclusive to all other objectives, first. Second, that's like saying that human should only seek to maximize his or her net worth -- it's absurd.

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Toxicants and disease-causing agents: environmental hazards

What are toxicants and how do they affect living organisms? According to Dr. Celine Godard, toxicants and toxins both reference substances that are toxic; however, toxins are made in nature (like in poisonous mushrooms or in the poisonous venom that snakes use to kill their prey) and toxicants are…

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Coral reefs and tourism in Colin Woodward's Ocean's End

Colin Woodward's book Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas describes the seas around Belize including those of Caye Caulker. Many of these are tourist areas, but with a low development footprint. As Woodward points out, most people walk and there are no cars anywhere on Caye Caulker.

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Visualizing global cyber attacks with the Norse map

I looked at the live cyber attacks on map.norsecorp.com at 9:20 AM on 30 Jan 2016. As the attacks happened, the majority of them originated in China (more than 400 attacks were sent in just a matter of minutes) and the majority of the targets were in the U.S.

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The evolution of water power, steam power, and iron in infrastructure development

Although hydropower is thousands of years old, recent developments in technology have allowed for far more sophisticated water turbines and waterpower systems.

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Minimizing personal energy consumption through renewable energy strategies

In order to reduce the negative environmental impacts of an ever growing human population and increasing demands for energy as technological advances continue, individual countries, states, cities and even households have the opportunity to shift their energy sources to those that are renewable.

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