Essays about: "environmental hazard"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 57 essays containing the words environmental hazard.

  1. 21. Subjective well-Being and environment : a GIS-Based analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Kristean Berry Björkman; [2018]
    Keywords : Physical Geography; Geographical Information Systems; GIS; Subjective Well-Being; Happiness; Life-Satisfaction; Environmental Conditions; Climate; Natural Hazards; Pollution; Solar Radiance; Impaired Waters; Air Pollution; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Subjective well-being is how individuals experience their quality of life, happiness, and life satisfaction; essentially, how people think and feel about their lives. Many variables influence subjective well-being. This study explores the relationship between environmental factors and a reputable subjective well-being index. READ MORE

  3. 22. Upgrading of Waste Tire Pyrolysis Oil

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

    Author : Surapat Somsri; [2018]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The annual increase in waste car tires in addition to the enormous amount at present poses a major waste management problem as well as an environmental hazard. However, pyrolysis is emerging as a solution for waste tire management and a viable technology for material recycling and energy recovery that produces high energy liquid and gas products as well as char. READ MORE

  4. 23. Integrated hydrodynamic and socio-economic damage modelling for assessment of flood risk in large-scale basin : The case study of Lower Chao Phraya River Basin in Thailand

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi

    Author : Phat Pumchawsaun; [2018]
    Keywords : Chao Phraya River Basin; flood risk assessment; 2D hydrodynamic model; fully 2D and coupled 1D 2D numerical methods; KULTURisk methodology; depth-damage functions;

    Abstract : Thailand has been often affected by severe flood events over the past century. The 2011’s Thailand Flood Catastrophe was the costliest in country’s history, and it was ranked to be the second most damaging natural hazard in the world in terms of economic losses. READ MORE

  5. 24. Ekologisk klassificering av kustvattenförekomster : en analys med fokus på dålig ekologisk status

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment

    Author : Michaela Stjernborg; [2017]
    Keywords : ekologisk status; ekologisk klassificering; VISS; vattendirektivet;

    Abstract : I enlighet med ramdirektivet för vatten som är ett EU-direktiv måste alla dess medlemsstater måste följa de krav som anges i direktivet. Ett av grundkraven i vattendirektivet är att medlemsstaterna skall inventera och klassificera sina vattenförekomster, däribland kustvattenförekomster. READ MORE

  6. 25. Disaster-induced Displacement: The Case of Small Island Developing States in the Pacific and the Caribbean

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Malte Paul Plewa; Ida Koch Giese; [2017]
    Keywords : Disasters; Displacement; Caribbean; Pacific; Climate Change; Migration; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : In 2015, 19.2 million people have been internally displaced globally in the context of disasters (IDMC, 2016). This is more than twice the number of people who have been newly displaced by conflict in the same period (IDMC, 2016). READ MORE