Category: Environmental science

A real or fictional disaster that has or could affect your area.

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Create a PowerPoint with the intended audience to be a community health department.
Focus on a real or fictional disaster that has or could affect your area. For example, if you live on the Florida coast you might choose potential hurricane.
Discuss the role of the Community Health Nurse in each stage of disaster. You should include a few slides on each stage of disaster: preparedness, response, recovery with specific activities and resources that the public health nurse would use in each stage.
Identify other agencies that might be involved.

Determining the value of a natural resource

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Research the Internet and other sources for information regarding public land agencies that have used some method of determining the value of a natural resource. You could focus your research on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents (Environmental Assessments [EA], Environmental Impact Statements [EIS], resource management plans, general management plans, etc). Check out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website for NEPA Compliance documents; try visiting the different public land agency websites and search for any new projects or developments that might require an evaluation of the economic value of natural resources). Check out the websites for the different National Park Service units (parks), different refuges of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, etc., for any project that required an assessment of the economic value of some natural resource. In the Week 3 Discussion, discuss the project and what you learned, what method of analysis was used, and give us enough background to understand this example.

 

Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment

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Research the Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment on the Internet. 1. Briefly explain what the results of the study showed. (Cite your source and explain your reasoning.) • Over the past 90 days, there were three private school shootings–in Broward County, Atlanta, and Los Angeles–in which multiple students were killed by a lone-wolf shooter. • A group of concerned and vocal parents in Miami are demanding that that patrols be substantially increased around public schools. • Concomitantly, parents of public school students are complaining of “class bias” should you take police officers and/or patrol away from their schools.
2. Assuming the results of the study are valid, how would you respond to the parents. 3. Give your opinion as to what a police department might try in order to address this potential issue with the limited manpower they have.

 

 

 

Environmental law or regulation

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Pick ONE environmental law or regulation, explain its history, purpose and goals in detail, and evaluate its successes and failures since enactment. Use subsequent court and legislative events, as well as information from the internet and/or printed literature, to help in your evaluation. Most students pick the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), or the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), but there are a lot more laws and regulations out there…..pick something interesting and applicable to your life. We have covered lots of different possibilities this session, so do not limit yourself to the most well known acts. You are required to use specific facts, cases, and multiple citations (I suggest 5-10 or more scholarly sources) in order to support your essay.

Water consumption

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Determine how much water you use in a typical week. Be very specific (use each category listed) and show calculations for you (and if possible each person in your home). Make your calculations and show totals in a spreadsheet. If there is something that you do not do (for example outdoor watering) put Not Applicable on the chart.
After reviewing your spreadsheet, answer the following:

How much water do you (or your family) use in a week, month, year?
How could you save water?
Determine how many people live in your town. Based on your calculations, estimate how much water your town uses every year (by volume). How does your water use compare with other Americans?

Environmental health concerns

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Environmental health concerns are major risk factors globally. One study looked at environmental risk factors and concluded that 22% of global death and 23% of the global burden of disease are attributed to environmental risk factors. After reading this week’s chapters and reviewing the PowerPoints and websites provided, please respond to the following (700-900 words, citation and reference in APA format):

What is the importance of risk factors to the global burden of disease?
What are the key concepts of environmental risk factors?
What are the most important health conditions that relate to the environmental issues?
Explain what household air pollution is and what can be done to prevent it?