Category Environment science

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Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) is an internationally accepted transparent process to predict and identify potentially significant environmental impacts of development proposals and to suggest mitigation measures to minimize the negative impacts and maximize the positive impacts. large-scale development projects that…

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Cleaner Production

Definitions of terminologies Wastes – Resources at wrong place in wrong form Environmental Pollution – It is throwing away of part of resources, introduction of harmful substances or pollutants into the natural environment. Cleaner production – Continuous application of an…

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Climate Change

Weather Vs Climate Weather Climate short term changes in the atmospheric variables in a given area over a short period of time (hours/days) Average weather conditions of particular area long over period time (3 decades or more) Example for the…

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Natural Resources

Resources is a source or supply from which benefit is produced. A natural resource is replaced by natural process. Renewable resources is a resources that capable of natural regeneration within a time span relevant to human e.g. – freshwater,soil, plant…

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Population

Population is the group of organisms of same species living in in the particular habitat. forces that controlling the growth of a population are biotic potential (ability to reproduce at given rate and inherent the characteristic of a populations), environmental…

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Evolution

Evolution is the natural process of irreversible changes producing new forms with adaptive improvements. Cosmological evolution Chemical evolution Biological evolution Cultural evolution Cosmological evolution Cosmological evolution is explained by the big bang theory. 13.8 billion years ago created all the…

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