Category: Environmental studies

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.

original piece of scholarship on the political economy
of climate, due in the Spring Term. The proposal should include a concise research
question, theoretical argument, and a discussion of a proposed empirical approach for
testing that argument (e.g., the data you would use, how you would analyze those data;
qualitative and quantitative approaches are both fine). Aim to write something that could
eventually be published in a leading political science journal and featured on a syllabus
like this one. You may include initial empirical analyses if you would like, but this is
optional. The proposal should be no longer than 3,000 words. What is something in the real world that you want to explain? Research questions in political economy work often look something like one of the following (note that this list is not exhaustive!):
• Empirical contradiction of canon: The literature typically assumes or argues x (e.g., firms lobby against stricter government regulations). But here’s a case that contradicts that (e.g., fossil fuel firms supporting climate regulations). What explains that?
• Puzzling empirical pattern: Lots of non-fossil fuel companies / non-energy companies lobby aggressively against climate policies. Why, and what are the implications of that?
• Novel phenomenon that theory hasn’t accounted for: Workers of the same ethnic group or gender often concentrate in the same fossil fuel industry. How does that identity group clustering shape reactions to decline in that industry?
• Original intervention in long-standing debate: Scholars have long debated the sources of long-run political-economic development. Here is a new theory for why some countries are more developed more than others that is superior to prior answers for these reasons…

This week you have a choice to focus on Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation or Paul Taylor’s Biocentrism. This choice will determine what part of the Lesson you focus on. First do the Weekly Lesson and the reading, either Singer or Taylor, and choose one Discussion prompt. Make sure to incorporate direct references and quotations from the reading, citing page numbers. This does not have to be an APA or MLA citation or reference. Option 1: Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation; select a case study or topic from our Sustainability textbook or from another academic source. Describe and apply the principles of Singer’s ethics to the case study/topic. Option 2: Paul Taylor’s Biocentrism; select a case study or topic from our Sustainability textbook or from another academic source. Describe and apply the principles of Taylor’s ethics to the case study/topic.