Environmental Concern

Within the context of a continental-scale planning initiative, the Puget Sound/ Georgia Basin area and the Coastal Pacific region of Vancouver Island and Olympic Peninsula were selected by a tri-national team of scientists and resource managers as priority conservation areas. The Baja California to Bering Sea Initiative represents a cooperative agreement of the three countries to establish a common conservation vision for the region. These regions were selected based on their unique ecology – the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin area was identified because it is an inland sea encompassing complex benthic habitats, extensive tidal flats, eel grass beds, large salmonid runs, and because it is important to the killer whale, a species of common conservation concern of the three nations. The outer coast was selected based on productive fisheries and its importance to seabirds and marine mammals. At the same time, the growing human populations along the coast and expanding marine tourism industr...

This paper reviews the situation of second car trading in Thailand covering on various aspects. First of all, the imports of second hand car to Thailand are limited by laws that cannot serve the commercial purpose. One importer can import only one used vehicles for the personal purpose for example for those used by himself, used in organization, or temporary uses in case the car’s owners much live in Thailand for a certain period of time. This paper also extends the consumer sentiment as well as impact of second hand car market to Thailand’s economic and social wellbeing. In addition, the analysis of environmental concerned of second hand cars including regulation and law imposed by the Thai government are discussed. The government regulations on the environmental issues are discussed on both the standard of emission, inspection, and current environmental controlled by the government

A social-psychological model is developed to examine the proposition that environmentalism represents a new way of thinking. It presumes that action in support of environmental quality may derive from any of three value orientations: egoistic, social-altruistic, or biospheric, and that gender may be implicated in the relation between these orientations and behavior. Behavioral intentions are modeled as the sum across values of the strength of a value times the strength of beliefs about the consequences of environmental conditions for valued objects. Evidence from a survey of 349 college students shows that beliefs about consequences for each type of valued object independently predict willingness to take political action, but only beliefs about consequences for self reliably predict willingness to pay through taxes. This result is consistent with other recent findings from contingent valuation surveys. Women have stronger beliefs than men about consequences for self, others, and the...

The general public, government regulators, and environmental organizations are increasingly demanding industries to reduce their environmental impacts and report progress. This in turn resulted in numerous requirements for reporting environmental data. Environmental assessments are a useful tool in gathering and documenting this data. The assessments also assist decision makers to quantify impacts of their activities and plan for appropriate mitigation measures. There are different types of environmental assessments, each having specific purpose(s) and addressing specific audience(s). This paper gives an overview of common environmental concerns associated with oil and gas industry and shares insights on types of environmental assessments that are widely used. It discusses general methodologies to define the scope, approach, measurement standards, and reporting. Potential challenges encountered in conducting these assessments in an international arena and under a wide variety of regulatory requirements are addressed. Practical approach in execution of these assessments is described here, and strategy in dealing with the challenges is presented.

The advancement of the global economy and technology has developed human civilization to a greater extent, it has also caused Massive damage to the global environment. solar energy, hydrogen fuel, and nuclear power are technically complex and cannot achieve mass production in a short period of time. Electric energy is a feasible energy solution at present, can solve the country's dependence on oil resources to a certain extent. As environment concern increases day by day and introduction of the new BS6 engines in India shows a great step in moving towards creating environment-friendly vehicles. But the problem of moving forwards at this pace in India is about the customer perceptive towards electric vehicles in India. As people are not much aware of the technology is and what is the change that it would bring in to there life and environment around them. We can it can be the lack of knowledge about electric vehicles or the trust that they have on the traditional fossil fuel vehicles. As India is a country with people having different lifestyles, habits, cultures etc…its a tough thing for the government here to quickly shift to electric vehicles. This paper talks exactly about the perceptions and buying behavior of the customer when an electric vehicle is launched in the market. this paper will show us a brief understanding of how people in India have their opinion about owning an electric vehicle and difficulties that they feel which concerns them over buying an electric vehicle over traditional diesel and petrol engine vehicles. So after going through the data that's been collected on this study I was able to find quite a few interesting things that have been affecting consumers buying decision towards electric vehicles not that they are not ready to embrace the new technology that's coming but it's more about the doubtfulness that the people have that can they have this in there society and how much will it impact their society positively and negatively. The study also shows that people are more concerned about its long-lasting feature such limited range as people in India love travelling in there own vehicles and the safety of the car as it runs on a battery which is quite new for the people and its durability. The factors that influences customers in purchasing of electric vehicles are not only about the design and development of electric vehicles that suits customer demands but it also serve as a theoretical idea in which Electric Vehicles can be Maximized and provide a choice for Customers purchase. the government and Automobile manufacturers need to focus on increasing the awareness and give publicity of there electric vehicles and Start launching more attractive battery, infrastructure and charging schemes to attract customers and promote the sustainable Energy development of the automobile industry.