Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
These are serious environmental problems that Pakistan is facing, and they are getting worse as the country's economy expands and the population grows. Although some NGOs and government departments have taken initiatives to stop environmental degradation, Pakistan's environmental issues still remain.
The Climate Change, Forestry, Environment & Wildlife Department is a government agency in charge of preserving and managing wildlife in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Established in 1975, the department operates under the Wildlife Protection Act, which offers legal protection to wildlife and their habitats. [1] [2] [3]
The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Urdu: ایجنسی برائے حفاظت ماحولیات, abbreviated as Pak-EPA), is an executive agency of the Government of Pakistan managed by the Ministry of Climate Change.
Perception (Level 1 SA): The first step in achieving SA is to perceive the status, attributes, and dynamics of relevant elements in the environment. Thus, Level 1 SA, the most basic level of SA, involves the processes of monitoring, cue detection, and simple recognition, which lead to an awareness of multiple situational elements (objects ...
The four-step risk assessment process. Environmental hazard identification is the first step in environmental risk assessment, which is the process of assessing the likelihood, or risk, of adverse effects resulting from a given environmental stressor. [6]
The risk equation shows that climate risk is a product of hazard, exposure, and climate change vulnerability (where 'x' represents interaction between the components). [ 1 ] Climate risk is the potential for problems for societies or ecosystems from the impacts of climate change . [ 2 ]
Poor drinking water quality and sanitation lead to major outbreaks of waterborne diseases [12] such as those that swept the cities of Faisalabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar in 2006. [12] Estimates indicate that each year, more than three million Pakistanis become infected with waterborne diseases. [ 13 ]
A variety of scholars have presented survey data in support of Cultural Theory. The first of these was Karl Dake, a graduate student of Wildavsky, who correlated perceptions of various societal risks—environmental disaster, external aggression, internal disorder, market breakdown—with subjects’ scores on attitudinal scales that he believed reflected the “cultural worldviews ...