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Climate and Agriculture, 2004.
This paper discusses the impacts of climatic changes on agriculture.
4,180 words (approx. 16.7 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 111.95
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This paper states that there has always been a natural variation in rainfall, temperature, and related conditions in certain parts of the world, leading to food insecurity due to variation of agricultural production. The author points out that existing socioeconomic effects often occur faster than the changes in the environment, which cause the socioeconomic changes, and thus, it is difficult to forecast them. The paper states that, because of climatic changes, the entire world will move into an unfamiliar situation, as human beings would be stepping beyond the limits that the world can provide them in support.
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"For the 21st century, agriculture requires that it may be integrated as a total system with the components of environment, society and economy. Only this will lead to development for meeting the needs of the present generation and also take care of the next generation. It is now estimated that the people of the world will increase by almost 3 billion in the next fifty years, and most of this growth will be in the developing countries. This will happen in spite of the fact that even today, some 800 million people go hungry every day and another billion live a day on less than one dollar. This is the food insecurity and poverty that affects one-fourth of the population of the world. It shows clearly that we have not been able to take the necessary corrective actions in spite of the tremendous scientific progress and economic developments that are being made now. To meet our food security and poverty dangers, we must ensure that proper agricultural and rural development take place."
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Climate Change Projections, 2004.
An analysis of the projections of climatic change and the expected impact on world agriculture.
1,201 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses the expected changes in climate and the ensuing affects on world agriculture. The paper claims that it is critically important to research climatic change since it affects everything on earth: man, beast, fish, fowl and organism. It also explains how climatic changes will affect the water temperature and the quality of the air.
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"Climatologists now have stated it is with the realm of "certain probability" that humans absolutely have induced global climatic disturbances resulting in a complete change in current conditions. Furthermore, the affect that has been projected for human health is one stated to be of a nature that is diverse, "unpredictable in magnitude" and slow in emerging. Specifically stated is that the "Adverse effects are likely to outweigh beneficial effect substantially" (McMichaels, et al eds., 2004) However the changes that may be witnessed sooner rather than later are those experienced from the affects of agricultural production difficulties and disasters and mass failure of crops due to unforeseen tragedy and destruction within the earth's biosphere. "
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The Climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, 2002.
The following paper discusses the climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, with respect to the climate classifications, its effects on farming and other activities.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This essay discusses how climate governs the entire ecological structure of the planet earth. The author examines how climate, in relation to the topography and latitudinal location, determines the vegetative types, the hydrology, soil, agriculture, and various human activities.
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"Climate represents a long term average of various weather features such as temperature and precipitation. The World Meteorological Organization uses 30-year averages to define climatological "normals" for these various features. Climate determines how resources such as water and vegetation are distributed and, until the onset of technology, climate also determined where people lived and worked. Many factors, such as topography, proximity to large bodies of water, and latitude affect a particular location's long-term climate. It is important to note that because a region's climatology is a 30-year average, significant year to year variability is likely. For example, a particular location may have a dry, warm winter one year and a record snowfall the next year"
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The Climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, 2002.
A discussion of the climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, with respect to climate classifications, its effects on farming and other activities.
2,405 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper discusses how climate governs the entire ecological structure of the planet earth. The author examines how climate, in relation to the topography and latitudinal location, determines the vegetative types, the hydrology, soil, agriculture and various human activities.
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?Climate represents a long term average of various weather features such as temperature and precipitation. The World Meteorological Organization uses 30-year averages to define climatological "normals" for these various features. Climate determines how resources such as water and vegetation are distributed and, until the onset of technology, climate also determined where people lived and worked. Many factors, such as topography, proximity to large bodies of water, and latitude affect a particular location's long-term climate. It is important to note that because a region's climatology is a 30-year average, significant year to year variability is likely. For example, a particular location may have a dry, warm winter one year and a record snowfall the next year.?
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Environmental Articles on Climate, 2008.
Compares two environmental articles about climate: A. Simms' "Why Do We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster?" and R. Gelbspan's "Boiling Point: Nature Doesn't Compromise on Global Climate Change; Activists Must Not Either".
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 34.95
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The paper explains that A. Simms in his article "Why Do We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster?" discusses how society is living way beyond its means in relation to climate. The author then relates that R. Gelbspan elucidates in his article "Boiling Point: Nature Doesn't Compromise on Global Climate Change; Activists Must Not Either" how weather or climate is the premier issue since it threatens all of humanity. The paper evaluates the articles on moral, imaginative and emotional criteria. The author concludes that both articles were not filled with jargon which made them informative and powerful.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Moral
Imaginative
Emotional
Conclusion
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"Gelbspan does not bring the issue of global warming to such a personal level. With Simms, I feel as though he is sitting with me at my kitchen counter helping me balance my check book and showing me that I am in debt to climate just like I am to my credit cards. Although Gelbspan is a more logical article and the rationale is more intellectual the message is still the same as with Simms--the feeling just isn't the same. Gelbspan's passion and imagination come from his bashing of the American people and their representatives."
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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production, 2007.
A literature review explorin sustainable agriculture and food production and how applied geo-information science can be utilized to secure the future of agricultural production the world over.
3,505 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 19 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper begins with a look at agricultural production systems, as well as methods in both developed and developing countries. The paper then explores some components of agriculture management and forecasting as well as food production, security, and early warning systems - and then looks at how geo-information science can improve upon the former by strengthening the latter two. Finally, the paper looks at some of the representative material available vis-a-vis applied geo-information science. A brief conclusion is then offered as to what the paper has ultimately uncovered.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Agricultural Production Systems/Method in both Developed and Developing Countries
Agriculture Management and Forecasting
Food Production and Early Warning Systems
Applied Geo-information Science and "Smart" Agriculture:
Food Security/Crop Yield
Improve Economy
Agricultural Planning using Soil Moisture Information
Precision Agriculture
Overall Conclusion
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"Needless to say, precision agriculture may ultimately be the one thing standing between economic and social devastation and renewed hope for the future in many developing nations. Maohua reports that the Government of the People's Republic began aiming for precision agriculture shortly after Chairman Mao's death, and the results have been favorable. According to Maohua, the government's overarching aims are to develop a Chinese agricultural capacity able to feed 1.6 billion Chinese by the middle of the twenty-first century."
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Climate and Culture within a Professional Organization, 2007.
This paper assesses and explains the concepts of climate and culture within a professional organization.
3,439 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 97.95
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In this article, the writer provides a detailed explanation of the concepts of climate and culture within a professional organization. The writer notes that doing so will help familiarize the reader with how these separate processes both impact the status of the organization. This paper also demonstrates how an effective leader can change these processes and therefore help improve the quality of the work environment for his or her employees.
Outline:
Introduction
Explanation of Climate and Culture
Climate
culture
Development of Climate and Culture
Changing the Climate and Culture
Conclusion
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"The climate of an organization is manifest by its workers. As such, climate research predates culture research as there has traditionally been a strong psychological component of attempting to assess job performance through exploring the perceptions, attitudes, preferences, and motivational drive of employees. Ashanskay et al. find that the early research on climate was done with a focus on Gestalt psychology, suggesting that the study of a climate in an organization was similar to the study of field theory on any population set."
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Climate Change, 2002.
An analysis of the relationship between man and the earth regarding climate change.
3,525 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 7 sources, $ 129.95
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This paper will look at the coin of climate change, where on the one side the human impact on the earth will be shown, and on the other, the impact of earth on man. Such a study is inevitably somewhat polemical, as it is still open to debate what the precise effects of man have and will be on climate change, and also what climate change will mean to man. It will also be quite general in analysis, as a paper of this scope can allow no more. What will be made clear, nevertheless, is that the relationship between man and earth is clearly changing. More specifically, man is outgrowing the earth. If the relationship is to continue indeed prosper then a new balance needs to be found. The issue of climate change holds one important key to this balance.
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School Climate and Student Results, 2007.
Examines the impact of the school's climate on student achievement results.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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Literature is replete with studies which show the importance of school climate in terms of learning potential. This paper focuses on the impact that the school climate has on achievement as well as on concomitant issues that affect and relate to student achievement levels. Achievement within the ambit of overall education cannot be separated from other aspects and variables. This paper therefore also provides examples of the interdependence between increased achievement and factors affecting school climate, in order to create a more amenable and productive school and learning environment.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Definitions and Importance of School Climate
Literature Overview and Discussion
Outcomes and Possibilities for Improving School Climate
Conclusion
References
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"Studies have also found that there is a significant correlation between school climate and other variables which need to be taken into account. For instance, there is an important link between different economic and social strata and problems with school climate. The study by Esposito ( 1999) states that achievement is also related to different school situations. For example the study found that problems with regard to school climate are more often found in low-income districts and are concomitant with problems related to student achievement and socialization."
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Climate Change and Developing Countries, 2008.
This paper explores the impact of climate change on the development of Third World countries.
2,032 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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This paper examines how climate change will impact the development of under-developed lands that figure to be (and already are) hardest hit by changes in the natural environment. In particular, the paper looks at how the development projects already in place in the developing world (or those now being conceived) will shortly - if not already - find themselves the targets of new, restrictive regulations aimed at cutting down runaway greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the paper looks at the human toll caused by climate change and how this injures the growth and development of Third World nations. In addition, the paper examines the role climate change plays in depleting natural resources - chiefly water - that fuel important economic activities in lands that can scarcely be without these activities. The paper also looks at how the local tourist sectors of these countries will suffer (are surely suffering already) as biologically diverse locales decline in the face of relentless global change. Last of all, climate change as a precipitator of foreign control over the economic policies of developing states is discussed with a focus upon how climate change has wrestled control for many economic initiatives out of the hand of Third World countries and placed that control firmly in the hands of international regulatory bodies dominated by western elites.
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"Climate change means trouble for impoverished "Global South" nations in a host of other ways, as well. A study recently concluded by the World Health Organization insists that climatic changes unfolding since the middle 1970s could be causing (at this very moment) nearly 150,000 annual deaths in the developing world and approximately five million "disability-adjusted life-years" (DALY) in that part of the world, as well. In short, climate-instigated diseases and "heat-related morbidity" are both seen (at least by the WHO) as heavily impacting the developing world even though the developing world is hardly culpable for man-made global warming (Patz, 2006; for a slightly more recent study that affixes a greater responsibility for global climate change to developing lands, please see Raupach, 2007)."
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Precision Agriculture, 2006.
This paper discusses why precision agriculture is beneficial to farmers.
778 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper describes precision agriculture. The author feels that precision agriculture may be the greatest development since the agricultural revolution. The paper then discusses how precision agriculture became possible and the technologies behind it. The author concludes that precision agriculture enables small farmers to survive in a market dominated by huge corporate farms.
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"Precision agriculture became possible through the development of Global positioning systems technology and as such technology has increased in accuracy and decreased in cost, as technology tends to do there has been a far-reaching effect. Though the price tag may still seem high the promise of precision agriculture far outweighs the initial output. "Normal civilian GPS receivers have a precision of about 100 yards. A system called differential GPS, which requires a local base station, can provide meter-level accuracy. At these accuracy levels, the technology has found widespread use in the nation's farmland, as part of a movement called precision agriculture. ("Satellite System Can Control")"
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The Commodity Trade in Agriculture, 2005.
Examines the commodity trade in agriculture and the different policies affecting it.
2,683 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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Agriculture, once a means of survival in America, has now become an industry, which generates millions of dollars a year. Before agriculture, humankind relied on hunting, fishing, and gathering in the wild to survive. People were known as hunters and gatherers, but soon became farmers. Once farming was introduced, humans were able to become much more sedentary because they did not have to move from place to place looking for sustenance. This paper shows that, once human creativity was unleashed, Americans began to understand the magnitude of profit and livelihood that agriculture held. To understand the full magnitude of the agriculture commodity trade, this paper examines the history of the trade, the policies/programs affecting the trade, and the standards set for the trade before it can be sold.
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"As long as human beings are in need of food to survive, the agricultural commodity trade will exist. Agriculture today is a complex system of production, distribution, research, and marketing. People desire option and depend on other people as well as other nations to supply them with a variety of product. The United States has a stable position in the agricultural commodity trade and this will remain stable with the right programs and policies put into action. Technology has helped stabilize the agricultural commodity trade in America and other advanced countries. Threats of drought, under-production, and other natural disasters have been lowered. After learning about the history of the trade as well as the policies and programs affecting the trade, it is easy to conclude that it is important to the U.S. economy. Compliance with policies and programs will only help farmers remain in competition to become profitable."
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Business and Climate Change, 2004.
Discussion of the impact that climate change has on industries and business.
932 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 33.95
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This paper examines the problem of climate change brought about by the operation of major global industries. The paper looks at the threats imposed by climate change and the opportunities presented by action on climate change. Also discussed are the different business strategies applied by American and European firms in response to climate change.
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"Climate change has become a major issue on the forefront of economic and political discussions. The cause of climate has been indicated as a build-up of greenhouse gases (mostly CO2) in the atmosphere as a result of emissions mostly from industry. The evidence presented in support of global warming has been robust but not completely conclusive (Levy & Kelley, 1997). The mass sum of greenhouse gas emissions produced by all nations of the world could yield potentially devastating ecological effects (Levy & Kelley, 1997). However, businesses and industry that rely on energy produced by fossil-fuels are concerned that early action on global warming in the absence of conclusive evidence could lead to terrible economic losses. On the other side, inaction could also prove disastrous, since global warming could potentially lead to floods, droughts, rising ocean levels, and disruptions in the global food supply. Moreover, there are both threats and opportunities that are presented to industries due to climate change."
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Industrial Revolution and its Effect on Agriculture, 2005.
The following paper examines the relationship between agriculture and the industrial revolution.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the industrial revolution and its effects on agriculture. The paper reviews the pre-industrial history of agriculture as well as the sweeping changes within the agricultural sector during the eventful period when the manufacturing sector was being transformed by a wave of technological innovation. The paper concludes by noting how inextricably linked are agricultural change and technological change.
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A Sceptic's View of Climate Change, 2006.
A look at the issue of climate change from a sceptical point of view.
2,272 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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This paper questions whether or not climate change has in fact been caused by man and discusses the main arguments put forward by the
sceptics. The accuracy of the computer models used to predict climate change is examined as well as the variation of temperatures in the past in relation to man-made climate change.
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A sceptics view of climate change
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"Sea levels are rising, the ice caps are melting, summers are hotter and the world as we know it is doomed unless we reduce greenhouse gas emissions now. This is the alarming view of global warming presented almost daily in the world's media. How much real scientific data is there to back this up?
"In order to assess the problem of man made global climate change the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The IPCC has so far produced three assessment reports based mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature. Hundreds of scientists across the world were involved. These reports are used as the basis for most public policy on climate change such as the Kyoto Protocol.
"In the second assessment1 published in 1996 the IPCC reported that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is discernible human influence on global climate". In the most recent report in 20012 the IPCC more categorically said that "most of the warming observed the last 50 years is attributable to human activities". Whilst the majority of the scientific community agree with the findings of the IPCC there are still those who are sceptical of their findings."
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