Category: Environmental studies

The purpose is to write a book on Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa covering trends, opportunities and challenges. The book should be targeted at postgraduate students (Masters and PhD students0 who would like to do research gain more knowledge about green growth governance in Africa. The book should also be suitable for policy makers and practitioners in Africa who wish to understand more about current trends in the politics and governance of energy and green transitions in Africa. It should also be suitable for international donor agencies that may wish to understand what they can do to enhance climate and green transition in Africa. The central argument of the book should be that green growth offers a great opportunity for Africa to diversify their economies away from fossil fuel, increase economic competitiveness by harnessing their abundant renewable resources; and also address the huge energy gap poverty in the continent. The book should then go ahead to make the case that whether or not Africa is able to access/exploit the opportunities presented by green growth depends on the extent they (Africa) is able to transform their governance to be more effective, innovative, and inclusive. Conceptually, the book uses framework of governance comprising 8-Is to explore the key governance themes/areas that requires attention to exploit green growth opportunities in Africa.

I am doing my Masters in Environment and Development at a renowned institution in UK.
This is for my Masters dissertation and this is my feedback from my supervisor so far:
“Write out a draft structure of the dissertation with word counts for each section, e.g.:
Introduction 1000/2000 words
Conceptual or analytical framework 500 words
Methods 1000 words
Results
Analysis
Discussion
Conclusions, policy recommendations/application…
(^Just an example)
Create a quick Gantt chart to plan your work on each part of the dissertation, e.g. lit review, interviews, analysis…

In general, your methods (interviews) should be based on gaps that you identify in the literature. So, a review of the literature should come first. The review will require some clear rationale behind the selection of literature you include and methods of selection, which you can start to draft. You might find inspiration in the PRISMA review process that you can look up. Don’t feel pressured to complete a systematic and comprehensive review, but the guidance will be useful and will make it easier to give a compelling argument for why your research question(s) is essential to find answers to.
Another useful thing to do at this stage is to write out your Aim and a few Objectives for the project. These can act as an anchor throughout the project.”
Please work on it as a Masters Level

Essay: Creating the Built Environment Assignment Instructions
Overview
Infrastructure is one of the three main categories of the built environment and is one of the most important factors in determining the location of a real estate development project.
Essay: Creating the Built Environment Draft Submission Assignment
After you complete your Essay: Creating the Built Environment Final Submission Assignment you should submit your assignment to the Essay: Creating the Built Environment Draft Submission Assignment to check your Turnitin report and make any adjustments prior to your final Submission. After reviewing your Turnitin results, make any edits necessary to your assignment prior to submitting for a grade.
Instructions
Prepare a research based essay that incorporates 3 articles and/or publications from the Explore: Urban Land Institute Americas, found in the Learn section of module 2, on the topic of infrastructure in real estate development. In addition to the 3 references from ULI, include 2 scholarly sources.
You may also use non-scholarly references such as trade publications in addition to your 5 required sources. The body of your essay must be 500–750 words (double-spaced), not counting the title page and reference page. Format your paper using current APA standards.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

Pick ONE environmental law or regulation, explain its history, purpose and goals in detail, and evaluate its successes and failures since enactment. Use subsequent court and legislative events, as well as information from the internet and/or printed literature, to help in your evaluation. Most students pick the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), or the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), but there are a lot more laws and regulations out there…..pick something interesting and applicable to your life. We have covered lots of different possibilities this session, so do not limit yourself to the most well known acts.
You are required to use specific facts, cases, and multiple citations (I suggest 5-10 or more scholarly sources) in order to support your essay. You are required to integrate course materials and concepts as well. Show me what you know and what you have learned.
As always, cite all sources used in APA style with in-text citations and a reference list. A fully developed response should go beyond your textbook and required readings (although you may include them), have multiple citations from valid sources (e.g., no wiki-anything) and should avoid direct quotes from others. Write this essay on successes and failures in your own words and demonstrate your synthesis. The essay should be 5-7 page total in length (excluding title page and references).

The project is a collection of 4 typed essays (sections). Two environmental issues are researched and summarized in two separate sections. The third section addresses how the two issues are related to one another. In the fourth section you will relate the two issues to the societies and industries of the book “Collapse”.
I will attach complete instructions.

I conducted a study for one-year intervals biweekly from January to December 2022. The data available is a reading of collected samples that were analyzed for the following chemicals: total dissolved solids (TDS), nutrients (Ammonia (NH3-N), total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), total nitrogen (TN), and phosphate (PO4-P)), heavy metals parameters including arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), mercury (Hg), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb) and silver (Ag), In this study also, five pharmaceutical compounds were analyzed including metronidazole, trimethoprim, sulfamethoxazole, paracetamol, and ranitidine. These compounds were analyzed in January, February, April, June, and August 2022.
I want to use these data to conduct a novel research paper that has a very high chance of being published in the Q1 Environmental Journal. This will be done if proper and high-quality scientific writing using these results to write novel research employing machine learning techniques such as R programming to conduct analysis such like
Detection of Anomalous Events
a. Time Series Analysis: Use R’s time series analysis packages, such as ts, forecast, and anomalies, to detect abnormal fluctuations or spikes in pollutant levels over time. Time series decomposition, seasonal decomposition of time series (STL), and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) modeling can help identify anomalous patterns and trends in environmental data.
b. Machine Learning Algorithms: Implement anomaly detection algorithms, such as isolation forests, one-class support vector machines (SVM), or autoencoders, using R packages like anomalyDetection, e1071, or keras. These algorithms can identify deviations from normal behavior in multivariate datasets and flag potential pollution incidents or outliers.
c. Statistical Process Control (SPC): Apply SPC methods, such as control charts (e.g., Shewhart charts, cumulative sum charts, or exponentially weighted moving average charts), to monitor pollutant levels and detect unusual variations from expected norms. R packages like qcc and qualityTools provide functions for implementing SPC techniques in environmental monitoring.

Do you think hazardous waste permitting requirements are sufficient, insufficient, or just about right? Explain.
Explain the toxic effects of three types of hazardous waste.
Your journal entry must be at least 500 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

All of he instructions are in the attachments please follow them
VIDEO LINKS
Greta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A
UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJQz0ZeVFUM

Select and read a Chapter from Enacting Environmental Justice Through Global Citizenship (edited by Maciej Nyka, and Emma Schneider, BRILL, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central) and describe and critique this chapter for your initial post. There are eleven chapters from which to choose. Make sure to incorporate direct references and quotes to the chapter, including page numbers. This does not have to be an APA or MLA citation or reference.

To prepare for your assignment,
Try to find information as close to where you live as possible. If you cannot find information within a 50-mile radius of where you live, then try searching the closest large city, or within your county.
Identify the predominant soil type(s) in your area. You can reference the ecoregion information from the Week 1 lab follow-up assignment.
Identify the weather and climate conditions of your area.
Research what types of agriculture, if any, are currently being practiced in your area.

Now, you are ready to draft a paper about soil and sustainable agriculture where you live, and your own plan for a 500-acre sustainable food production operation. In your essay,
Describe the general area where you live (local community, county, etc.) by addressing the following:
What are the characteristics of the soil?
What is the composition (sand, silt, clay)?
How well does it retain water?
How fertile is the soil generally?
What are the seasons like?
How much precipitation (rain and snow) do you get annually, and how is it distributed throughout the year?
Discuss agricultural production in your community:
What crops are being grown?
What production methods are being used?
Is irrigation necessary?
Are there any greenhouses or other indoor food production operations in your area?
Are there any organic or other sustainable agriculture operations within 50 or 100 miles of your location?
Create a plan, based on the conditions in your area, for a sustainable food production operation that addresses the following questions:
How will you divide up the 500 acres between at least four different sustainable food production methods?
Why is each method suitable to your local area and conditions?
Which foods will you produce and what methods will you utilize for each one? You should conduct research on sustainable food production systems, and you can also use information from the Week 2 Properties of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory.
must use at least one scholarly source, one credible source, and the course text, for three sources
Textbook : Bensel, T., & Carbone, I. (2020). Sustaining our planet. Zovio.