With the recognition that every life on this planet has an intrinsic worth, it certainly contradicts the views of anthropocentrism about the natural world. ... An example to relate the principle of care and respect of the biodiversity is the protection of sea turtles. The World Wide Fund for Nature in a deontologist perspective works around the world to reduce and eliminate the illegal trading of turtles and focuses to eradicate sea turtle by catch from fisheries[Lei14]. ... Just as the future generations will be affected by the contemporary actions, so the natural world is subjugated by huma...

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With the recognition that every life on this planet has an intrinsic worth, it certainly contradicts the views of anthropocentrism about the natural world. ... An example to relate the principle of care and respect of the biodiversity is the protection of sea turtles. The World Wide Fund for Nature in a deontologist perspective works around the world to reduce and eliminate the illegal trading of turtles and focuses to eradicate sea turtle by catch from fisheries[ CITATION Lei14 l 1033 ]. ... Just as the future generations will be affected by the contemporary actions, so the natural world is ...

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According to this definition, after the Second World War the main threat to international security was identified with the interstate-armed conflicts in the traditional military sense. ... In a world in which environmental degradation crosses national borders with abandon, environmental security has impelled states to find cooperative rather than competitive solutions. ... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) documented the consequences of the ecological degradation which affect negatively the environment: rising seas levels, increased frequency of droughts and floods, storms,...

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Violations of animal rights and animal welfare laws are very common throughout the world. ... ConAgra uses large feedlots to fit as many animals as possible and feed them at the same time, there are times during this process that the animals are so crammed together that the animals appear as if they are a "sea of cattle, a mooning moving mass of brown and white fur that goes on for acres" (Schlosser 149). This violates the law that states that an animal is supposed to be given enough space for them to be able to lie down, and in this feedlot the animals are so closely packed that the...

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Secondly, livestock is responsible for land degradation, deforestation in various areas around the world and the loss of biodiversity in these areas. ... "Taurino Querevalu is returning to port empty again after a hunt for Peruvian anchovy, cursing his empty nets and an increasingly stingy sea" (Gerken). ... Also, the development of the livestock sector has brought disastrous consequences for the Amazon, which is considered one of the lungs of the world. ... According to an FAO report, "Brazil led the world in terms of total deforested area between 1990 and 2005, the country los...

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The debate on globalisation versus localisation of marketing parameters has intensified over the last few decades with positions ranging from beliefs in the homogenisation of consumer demands to the idea that markets remain culturally diverse despite the increasing interconnectedness of the world. ... Their cognitive nature and on-the-surface character suggest that this particular other is not salient to the respondents" way of perceiving the world and the Self. ... To briefly illustrate this empirically, resent research carried out by the Danish Tourist Board has established that Germans vie...

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A working definition of "environmental refugees" for this paper will focus on those for whom the environmental "push factors" for migration are dominant, operating "with respect to the most common forms of environmental degradation, including deforestation, rising sea levels, desertification and drought." ... By 2050, he estimates, about 150 million people (1.5 percent of the total projected world population for that year) will be displaced by the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise, agricultural systems are destabilized by deforestation and drought, and extreme weather events prolif...

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The ability of this compass to tell direction led to more people taking long-distance sea voyages because it enabled them to determine the exact direction they were sailing, not only enabling explorers to document their routes but gain an understanding of their surroundings, creating new notions about world geography, constituting a broadening of outlook. ...

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This conflict, though not visible to tourist mindsets, has been subliminally effervescent since the mistreatment of the Japanese Americans during World War II, and its dormancy beneath the everyday smiling faces of Japanese and American bystanders is awakened heightening tension in the small island community. ... "It was precisely the sort of home Carl would build, he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. ... The mention that his house offers "no affront,"" perhaps emphasizes Carl's own understanding of c...

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The increasing globalisation of the marketplace combined with an ever increasing shortage of skilled staff and advances in technology have resulted in large scale changes to recruitment practices throughout the world. ... W.Parks (1985) also points out that there could be high costs involved with external recruitment as from time to time companies organize to recruit people from over seas, mostly because a technology gap appears within an industry (e.g. computer experts) which involves relatively high costs as those recruited from overseas require relocating and resettling. ...

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In creating these layers in both content and form, both Delacroix and Baudelaire construct works of art which become worlds unto themselves, with their own truths and limits, worlds where oppositions are blurred and recreated on the artist's own terms. ... The diction Baudelaire uses in "Beautiful Dorothea" conveys a multeity in unity that situates the world of the poem somewhere above or below reality. ... The lack of an evocation of sound in each of these works is interesting because it further advances their dreamlike quality - these scenes are apart from the real world and all of i...

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Thus we gather that the occurrences within the world of Herodotus are born out of a more observable and rational basis than was present in prior tradition, demonstrating a progression towards factual history, and solidifying Herodotus' position as a proto-historian. ...

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Environmental problems are to be considered as a world problem, as opposed to national problems, for pollution affects the whole world indiscriminately, regardless of political boundaries. ... The characteristic of Cuba, which is important in any environmental assessment, must first be considered: The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea at the gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, and is very close to the Tropic of Cancer, which borders it on the north. ... - This newly found unity among communist countries led to an interdependence believed to take over the world, a new world m...

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In 2008, the world approximately used "11,295 tons of oil equivalents" (Brennan 2010). ... Microalgae can grow in various types of waters, such as sea saltwater, alkaline and also waste water, making it advantageous to produce energy in areas with freshwater shortage. ...

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