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What are some of the factors that influence the public’s perception of the level of risk we face from human-made hazards?
How can this public perception affect how emergency managers follow the emergence preparedness plan and other mitigation and preparedness activities?
You have learned about the various energy sources and energy uses, along with the underlying environmental problems, and calculated your carbon footprints. For this assignment, please answer the following questions clearly and concisely in your own words:
1. How are energy use and carbon footprint generally related, and why? Briefly describe in one to two sentences.
2. Pick up an item in front of you right now. It has a carbon footprint in terms of anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide emitted to make that product. Explain why and outline some steps that would take fossil fuel use to produce that product in no more than one paragraph.
3. What are three main environmental consequences of our fossil fuel use? Provide one sentence for each of these consequences in terms of their root causes and their effects.
4. Consider the emissions associated with burning fossil fuels:
· What are three emissions regulated in the U.S. for the burning of fossil fuels?
· What is the most non-toxic emission resulting from complete combustion of fossil fuel?
· What is one hazardous emission resulting from fossil fuel combustion? Describe the potential effects of this hazardous emission in one or two sentences. Is this emission on EPA’s list of Hazardous Air Pollutants (https://www.epa.gov/haps)?
Communities use the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) process to identify and prioritize hazards and threats, targets, and resource requirements. Use the three step THIRA process to identify the targets in your community.
Write a 3- to 4-page paper that applies the four-step THIRA process in the textbook to your community.
It is important to determine what assets in the community will be affected by a natural or manmade hazard. Respond to the following questions in your paper this week:
Questions:
· Determine the assets in a community or state that would be affected by a hazard.
· Discuss your findings and how you would rank their vulnerability (high, moderate, low).
In 3000 words, answer the question:
Flooding in Accra, Ghana: examining the impacts of flooding on residents through the dimensions of class and environmental racism, and how capitalism as a structural force (political ecology), drives flooding. How can the theories of informality and infrastructure be informed, as coping mechanisms? See document for all instructions.
What factors impact states’ responses to environmental problems?
Describe how human activity has affected climate change which has created global warming .
Share one strategy you have seen or would use to monitor progress of learning in an early childhood classroom environment. Explain how you plan to use it in your future classroom. ( 150 words)
Competitive Environment (i.e., Threats of new entrants, rivalry among existing firms, Threats of substitute products, bargaining power of buyers, Bargaining power of suppliers)
Internal environment (i.e., Firm Structure, Firm Culture, Firm Resources)
Opportunity & Issue Analysis (i.e., SWOT analysis & Issue analysis, SWOT framework should be incorporated)
For the elements, focus on the issues that you believe will be most important to JUST US! CAFES marketing planning over the next year or so. The main issues should be included in the introduction.
What kind of market research JUST US! CAFES can incorporate to enhance the cafes’ performances?