Plant Pharmacopoeia / Rainforest Depletion & Its Impact On Medicine
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A 6 page paper in which the writer discusses deforestation as a threat to medicinal plants and the protective measures employed by various groups; and a discussion of eleven (recently discovered) plants and/or their medical derivitives, including taxol. The paper postulates that protecting these medicinal plants is imperative through ethics, and even the passage of more laws. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Pharmaco.wps

The Malaysian Rain Forest
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This five-page paper discusses the Malaysian Rainforest and the steps that are being taken to prevent deforestation destroying the areas around the water sheds. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: CWrainfrs.wps

Corporations ARE Endangering the Environment
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A 5 page paper discussing the a few of the realities concerning the corporate world and the environment. Although many people may be under the delusion that pollution and the damaging of the environment is under control through rules, regulations, and human conscience many corporations are still involved in acts which damage the environment. A situation on the border of the United States and Mexico is addressed as well as the still present problem of deforestation both here and abroad. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Endcorp.wps

Brazilian Rainforests: Endangered Ecosystems
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A 5 page overview of the tremendous ecologic value of the Brazilian ecosystems. Discusses the many threats to the sensitive ecologic balance of this system including deforestation, global warming, and slash and burn agriculture. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPBrRain.wps

Deforestation / Environmental Impact on Third World Countries
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A 6 page overview of the environmental effects of deforestation on Third World countries. Discusses clearcutting, impacts to the fragile ecologies and ancillary impacts such as global warming and interruption of the carbon cycle. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Defors.wps

Deforestation
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A 10 page overview of the environmental and humanistic impacts of deforestation. Stresses the tremendous biodiversity of forested systems and their existing and potential value to mankind. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Defor.wps

Deforestation # 2
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A short, yet comprehensive 4 page essay on deforestation that explores the problem, its roots, and its potentially devastating impact on our future. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Deforest.wps

Deforestation and its Effects on Medicine & Biopharmaceuticals
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A 5 page overview of deforestation and the negative effects which deforestation presents to medicine and the identification of plants and other biological materials which can be used to treat human disease. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PlntMed.wps

Environmental Economics and Deforestation and Paper Production
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This 7 page paper considers the environmental effect of deforestation, specifically in relation to paper production. Issues such as opportunity costs and green audits are considered along with the different costs incurred on the environment and future generation. The issue of sustainable development is also considered. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
Filename: TEpaper.wps