RECENT PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

BIOFUELS BOOM SPURS DEFORESTATION: EFFORTS TO SLOW CLIMATE CHANGE BY USING BIOFUELS AND PLANTING MILLIONS OF TREES FOR CARBON CREDITS HAVE IRONICALLY BROUGHT MAJOR NEW CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION, REPORTS STEPHEN LEAHY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 21/03/07, BROOKLIN, CANADA, (IPS/IFEJ)–Nearly 40,000 hectares…

THE IMPACT OF CASH CROPPING, FARM TECHNOLOGIES, AND DEFORESTATION IN NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The awareness of the many services provided by tropical forest (Costanza et al. 1997) and the rapid increase in tropical deforestation has put forest at the…

DEFORESTATION AND REFORESTATION IN NAMIBIA: THE GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES OF LOCAL CONTRADICTIONS ABSTRACT Descriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900s appearence, suggesting that little change occured between the pre-colonial…

SHOTGUNS, SPRAY, AND SMOKE: REGULATING ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION OF POLLUTANTS UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT ABSTRACT The author is an attorney in Los Angeles, and a former law clerk to Judge Paul C. Huck, United States District Court for the Southern…

THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION: USING INTERNATIONAL CARBON TRADING TO PROTECT FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY ABSTRACT Carbon trading to reduce tropical deforestation is emerging as a leading strategy to combat harmful climate change while also potentially reducing threats to biodiversity. Funds devoted…

Format: MS WORD |  Chapter: 1-5 |  Pages: 65-80 |  . AN ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIA’S RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA Abstract The development of rural areas and particularly in developing societies has remained a challenge to…

Format: MS WORD |  Chapter: 1-5 |  Pages: 65-80 |  . MANAGEMENT OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF OWERRI NORTH IMO STATE) CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The dramatic reduction in number of commercial properties in Nigeria is a…