[ECS 372] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (40 pages long!)

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Ecosystem Science and Policy
• Course: ECS 372
• Professor: Rossinsky Victor

Document Summary

Presentations- can use whatever medium must have pictures and needs to be about 10-15 minutes long each. They all have to be at least equally stringent. Society- government and regulated community: laws/regulations, enforcement, consultants/experts, attorneys, special interest groups, economic impacts. Every contaminant has there own level depending on how harmful it is considered. The last 10% of the cleanup requires 90% of the effort. Regulations: management/ minimization of waste, design and construction, permitting. Effects of planned action on the environment. Support attorneys: help attorneys understand environmental/ scientific issues in case, deposition, testimony in court as expert. Escape of chemicals and pollutants into environment. Public sector: government, utilities, regulatory agencies, counties municipalities. Private sector: industry, corporations, private business. Purposes: keep incompatible uses away from each other, limit over crowding/over building, relative to public services and facilities, stabilization of neighborhoods. Tools: ordinance and map, variances: gives landowner and exception to break some rules.