" The certifications provided by BREEAM take into account a number of important features of a location design, including energy consumption, water usage, pollution, waste, land use and ecology, as well as how the facility is managed (Green Business Awards 2008). Following the BREEAM evaluation, a classification of Good, Very Good, Excellent, or Outstanding is awarded (Hoare 2008)
" Therefore, the biodiversity of the Game site can be improved by using bacteria and phytoremediation to accelerate its remediation. Moreover, improving the biodiversity of the Game site will improve its legacy utility and improve its attractiveness for future travel and tourism (Hudson and Lee 2010)
" Therefore, biodiversity can be promoted and the problem of contaminants addressed simultaneously by introducing bacteria and plants to the remediation mix. Rather thanbeing allowed to simply attenuate in the rain over time, this "relocated" problem of contaminated soil and water can also be addressed using off-site bioremediation techniques that involve unearthing the soil and introducing bacteria to feed on the contaminants that hasten their complete breakdown by 20-50% (Lam 2004), thereby providing a highly cost-effective solution to an ongoing problem
In this regard, Boyle and Haynes (2009) emphasizes that the Games have assumed significant importance for Glasgow in both political as well as economic terms by promoting their municipality on the global stage. To date, though, the Glasgow 2014 Games have experienced some significant difficulties attracting corporate sponsors (Reynolds 2013)
Other threats to the polar bears also include hunting. (Aars, Derocher and Lunn, 2006) They have been hunted for thousands of years now for food, clothing and other religious purposes
The reduction in the insulating effect means that a bear must consume a lot of energy by increasing the calories in take to stay warm. (Norris, Rosentrater and Martin, 2002) Polar bears can also ingest oil by eating the contaminated preys like seals and seabirds
It helps to prevent the extinction of animals in the United States. In 2008, polar bear was also added as "threatened" species to the Unites States list of Endangered Species due to the loss of ice habitat (Seigel, Cummings, Moritz and Nowicki, 2007)
Polar bears and their prey which includes mostly seals depend on the sea ice for their reproduction and relaxing. (Tynan and DeMaster, 1997) the Arctic's ecosystem is driven by the climate and polar bears act as an important indicator of the effect of climatic changes on the Arctic
Brown bears are the precursor to the polar bears who eventually developed characteristics for surviving the harshness of the Arctic region. Hence, they are believed to be evolved from brown bears when they underwent series of evolutionary changes in order to adapt themselves to the harsh environment of the Arctic regions (Miller and Schuster, 2012) Nature when exercised the extreme pressures on the brown bear resulted in better adapted subspecies i
The economics professor David N. Laband (Ghista, 2004), is one of the foremost critics against the form that biodiversity protection takes today
According to the studies considered so far, there is little doubt that conservation parks in tropical countries make a substantial difference in preserving biological diversity. Despite negative reports by some critics (Rotenberg, 2007), who hold that parks are not sufficient in ensuring future biodiversity, it is undeniable that a difference is indeed detected in conservation areas when compared with areas that are not protected
Biodiversity, then, refers to te diversity of life -- of biological entities -- that exists on this planet (and possibly elsewhere, though the term is not generally used with an extraterrestrial perspective in mind). Far from remaining the simplified way of saying "biological diversity" as was originally intended, however, the term has taken on a significance all its own as the rate of loss in biodiversity has reached alarming highs in the past few decades (Faith 2007)
Many nations have developed their own laws aimed at protecting and even increasing biodiversity when possible; some well-known pieces of legislature in the United States include the Endangered Species Act, which was actually passed more than a decade before the term biodiversity was coined, and the Soil and Water Conservation Act and Clean Air Act, both of which were not specifically aimed at maintaining levels of biodiversity or slowing the rate of biodiversity oss, but which have these effects regardless (Faith 2007). Following the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992, many other nations also began passing laws, and international laws and standards were also set (Pethiyagoda 2004)
The question of what we are doing about biodiversity is a complicated one. It is believed, and proven in many specific instances, that humans are a major cause of extinction in other species (Shah 2009)
With redundancy, it is less likely that any particular disturbance in the eco-system would negatively affect, or crash it, because the effects would be absorbed and spread around. Second, a larger diversity of populations also ensures that the gene pool is adequately stated and that negative characteristics are not interbred over time (Cleland, 2012)
d. Bees = Pollution and potential infections of hives due to a lack of biodiversity (Hogan, 2010)
Many of the "global losers" will include threatened birds such as parrots and pheasants and threatened mammals such as apes and rhinoceroses. There will be "local losers" like the babbler bird of the Sumatran forest; parrots of the Brazilian forest; birds in urban areas of the United States; frogs in the Amazon forest; insects of the Boreal forest; and salamanders in the forests of Maine to name a few (McKinney & Lockwood 1999)
Studies have shown that the understanding of the concept of biodiversity is pretty limited for most (Wilheim-Rechmann & Cowling, 2011). There are many barriers to the research and understanding of these issues and the elements that make up a species habitat among researchers and thus communicating these issues with the public can be a complex affair (Dennis, Dapporto, Dover, & Shreeve, 2013)
The most important step is to identify the best way to frame the issues of biodiversity and the problems this poses in a way that can be effectively understood. Studies have shown that the understanding of the concept of biodiversity is pretty limited for most (Wilheim-Rechmann & Cowling, 2011)
Economic development has, in fact, resulted in increased fossil fuel extraction and consumption. This will only serve to aggravate climate change impacts and hurt biodiversity, since a number of species cannot effectively adapt themselves to the constantly warming earth (Colman 2)