Essays about: "factors affecting environmental degradation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words factors affecting environmental degradation.

  1. 1. Beyond Borders: The European Union's Legislative Approach in Regulating Deforestation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Laura Valentina Vargas Falla; [2023]
    Keywords : Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Deforestation and forest degradation is an environmental phenomenon affecting the entire world. In 2021 the EU Commission proposed a Regulation on Deforestation-free Products, which is expected to repeal the EU Timber Regulation in 2023. READ MORE

  3. 2. Faktorer som påverkar proteinnedbrytning och kväveeffektivitet hos mjölkkor

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Kajsa Ståhlberg; [2020]
    Keywords : protein; kväve; nedbrytning; utnyttjande; mikroorganismer; våmmen; urea; mjölkko;

    Abstract : Svenska mjölkkor utfodras idag med en stor andel protein för att upprätthålla en hög mjölkproduktion. Protein är ett viktigt näringsämne som bland annat stimulerar syntes av mjölk. För att säkerställa en hög mjölkavkastning finns det en risk att mjölkkon överutfodras med protein som inte kan utnyttjas. READ MORE

  4. 3. Economic development and national environmental performance: A cross-country comparison

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Suvi Heikkuri; [2018]
    Keywords : Environmental performance; economic growth; economic development; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The relationship between economic development and environmental performance has gained much attention since the development of the environmental Kuznets curve, which predicted that economic growth would lead to environmental degradation at early stages of development but would eventually improve environmental quality at higher income levels. This assumption of economic growth alone driving both causing and solving environmental issues is a potentially risky idea, and thus, scholars are examining the other potential factors behind the relationship. READ MORE

  5. 4. Linkages between land degradation and economic inequality in global drylands

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Neija Maegaard Elvekjær; [2017]
    Keywords : global drylands; Gini coefficient; income inequality; NDVI; Mann Kendall trend analysis; inequality index; restrend; land degradation; socio-economic inequality; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Land degradation has a negative effect on agriculture, food security and ecosystems. It severely impacts the livelihood of the many people directly depending on agriculture around the world. Drylands are some of the most vulnerable areas around the world. READ MORE

  6. 5. Land cover change and its influence on soil erosion in the Mara region, Tanzania : using satellite remote sensing and the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to map land degradation between 1986 and 2013

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Klara Århem; Fredrik Fredén; [2014]
    Keywords : Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation; land cover change; geography; physical geography; soil erosion; land degradation; RUSLE ; remote sensing; Landsat; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from land degradation, depletion of natural resources and rural poverty. In the Lake Victoria Basin, where large parts of the population are small scale farmers, people are facing such issues coupled with altered climatic conditions. READ MORE