Read Apply Your Knowledge: Solutions to Environmental Issues at the end of Chapter 5, Section 5.3, in your text. In a two-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) you must:
Select a community with which you are familiar.
List the three most significant environmental issues facing the community. Cite your sources when referring to websites or articles.
Describe how these environmental issues affect the health of individuals in the community. Cite your sources.
Describes and identifies the major causes of these health problems.
Provide several significant steps that could be taken at a corporate level to reduce the impact of the environmental problem.
You must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the text and your paper must be formatted according to APA style guidelines. Note: Title must appear on the first page of text; headings must be used in all APA essays; and, the final heading of your paper must be the word: Conclusion.
“Apply Your Knowledge: Solutions to Environmental Issues”
Select a community with which you or your group are familiar. Then do the following:
List the three most significant environmental issues facing the community. For example, the city might be outgrowing its water source or experience temperature inversions during the winter caused by air pollution.
Then, list how each of these issues impacts your health. For example, are you exposed to cancer-causing chemicals, and does the community have a higher-than-average cancer rate? Is air pollution a problem that leads to a higher-than-average rate of lung disease?
Review the list and detail the major causes of these problems. Are these caused by factories? Traffic?
Provide several significant steps that could be taken at a corporate level to reduce the impact of the environmental problem.
Think of several significant personal steps that could be taken to reduce the impact of the environmental problem.
Additional information:
Write two-full page paper (minimum), which includes the following:
Introduction
Select a familiar community and list the three most significant environmental issues facing the community:
Describe how the selected environmental issues affect the health of individuals in the community. Support your assessment using appropriate documentation.
Describe and identify the major causes of these health problems; : Support your assessment using appropriate documentation.
Describe several significant steps that could be taken at the corporate level to reduce the impact of the environmental problems; : The steps you describe should be those companies and government agencies can do to reduce the impact of the environmental problems facing the community of your choice.
Conclusion
FINALLY, use APA style of writing:
Use font size 12, double space, 1” margins on all sides.
Use at least first level heading to separate the main points of your paper; the word conclusion is always used.
Academic writing should be written in the third person point of view.