Lists of Environmental Problems

List 1: Graedel and Allenby

Graedel, T. E., and B. R. Allenby (2003). Industrial Ecology. Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall.

prob1 global climate change
prob2 human organism damage
prob3 water availability and quality
prob4 resource depletion: fossil fuels
prob5 radionuclides
prob6 resource depletion: non-fossil fuels
prob7 landfill exhaustion
prob8 loss of biodiversity
prob9 stratospheric ozone depletion
prob10 acid deposition
prob11 thermal pollution
prob12 land use patterns
prob13 smog
prob14 esthetic degradation
prob15 oil spills
prob16 odor

 

List 2: List of environmental problems

a. population growth and human consumption
b. habitat destruction, loss of natural capital, pollution
c. climate change
d. energy use, resource consumption and side effects
e. agriculture/forestry/mariculture processes and fundamental basis
f. depletion of water resources
g. urbanization that leads to unlivable conditions
h. air pollution
i. loss of biodiversity