First of all, the preparedness plan highlights the importance of agriculture in Connecticut. Agriculture contributes $3.5 billion to the state’s economy and provides 20,000 jobs (Lopez et. al. 2010), and it has a high vulnerability to climate change. The Agriculture Workgroup was formed to evaluate specific impacts on agriculture. They found that most impacts were negative, and that the top five most imperiled features are maple syrup, dairy, warm weather produce, shellfish, and apple/pear production (source). The preparedness plan takes into account the existing and impending impact on individual farmers and agriculture systems, and have decided to create long-term strategies geared towards building hardiness. This way, the cost of adapting overtime stay at a minimum as opposed to doing nothing and possibly having larger economic losses eventually. Since there is scientific evidence that climate change is occurring now, it is more beneficial to address the problem and propose solutions now as opposing to wait in the future.
There are a large number of proposed actions for adjusting agriculture practices to climate change. One of the proposals is to conserve ecosystem services, which are beneficial services that are provided to humans for free, primarily non-market goods. Agriculture depends on services such as pure air and water and fertile soil for production, and can be maintained through practices such as crop rotation, energy/water conservation, and organic farming techniques. While it is recognized that these practices did not come about in response to climate change, these methods are known to boost farm resiliency to stressors. Paul Bucciaglia, the owner of a certified organic farm, says “the two most important organic m...
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...d to be affected by sea-level rise and flooding are occupied by private landowners, the plan states, “outreach and public engagement will be an important aspect of each adaptation strategy.” It is realized that residencies along the coast are very economically valuable; hence, public awareness solely will not be enough. Policy changes on building rights and regulations are also necessary. This can become controversial because even with evidence of climate change occurrence, it is difficult to gain public acceptance. Eventually, areas of the coast line will be underwater, causing a high cost of relocation and loss of properties. During Hurricane Sandy, many waterfront houses were completely destroyed. While insured owners may receive coverage for the damage, in the long-run zoning regulations should limit property lines to be further inland to avoid such destruction.
Hampshire colony, Maine colony, Connecticut colony, and Rhode Island colony. Massachusetts colony for example was governed as a theocracy government. As the first governor of Massachusetts colony once stated in A Model of Christian Charity (Written on board the Arbella on the Atlantic Ocean, 1630),"we shall be as a city upon a hill" a holy commonwealth that could be served as an example community to the rest of the world. The Massachusetts Bay colony placed great importance on religious matters. Only
Southern colonial settlements were united in several areas that created the opportunity for each group of colonies to grow. However, these groups of colonies took divergent paths when it came to the founders’ motives to settle the New World, the importance of religious and social orientation, economic approaches and political developments. These different approaches were ultimately successful beyond the early founders’ expectations. Both the New England and Southern colonies enjoyed some common conditions
evolution is one of the most important concepts of modern biology and is essential to understanding key aspects of living organisms in the past, present and future. Evolutionary biology also offers alternative solutions to problems in medicine and agriculture while providing insight and answers on how to deal with the problem of antibiotic exploitation occurring within these fields. Studying medical problems in an evolutionary context has been coined "Darwinian medicine." This way of studying medicine
made the Fundamental Orders, made a democracy controlled by “substantial” citizen, which was later adopted as the Connecticut state constitution. o New Haven was founded by Puritans wanting a closer church-state relation but were squatters and earned the disfavor of the King Charles II for hosting judges who killed his father; New Haven was merged under Connecticut with the Connecticut Valley charter. o Most in New England arrived in one decade, between 1629 and 1642 and brought entire families and
a row at a rate of 6% (25 million acres). The area of genetically modified crops, or biotech crops, has increased almost 100-fold since commercialization in 1996, making biotech crops the fastest adopted crop technology in the history of modern agriculture (“ISAAA”). The biotech boom has changed the way that producers grow their crops, for better or for worse. The explosion of genetically modified crops and foods has stirred a debate whether they are a harmful liability to the environment and to society
To say that China underwent a rapid economic ascension over the past fifty years is a gross understatement; the nation transformed itself from a largely agrarian society into one of the world’s most successful and powerful industrial giants. Through a series of economic, social, and political reforms, the country launched head first toward modernization and secured its place amongst the most influential world powers. However, a country that affixes its national onus solely upon the process of modernization
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Francisco with water. The next year, after visiting his daughter in the Mojave Desert, Muir died in a hospital in Los Angeles. John Muir was the most famous and influential naturalist and environmentalist from the United States. He taught us the importance of direct experience and nature protection. His words increase our perception of the world of nature. His life is an inspiration to environmentalists
Elizabeth Bentley was born in Connecticut in 1907, raised by Republican, Episcopalian parents, who passed away prematurely before 1925. She attended Vassar on a full scholarship, did postgraduate work at Columbia University, and had a graduate fellowship at University of Florence. Despite being a seemingly normal American young woman, she was intrigued by Communism and ultimately joined the Soviet Union as a spy. Elizabeth Bentley has an intriguing story, examined in great detail by both Kathryn
law was ineffective, it did keep the importance of school before the public and helped to form public opinion in favor of education. In 1873 the compulsory attendance law was revised. The age limit was reduced to twelve but the annual attendance was increased to twenty weeks per year. Additionally, a semblance of enforcement was established by forming jurisdictions for prosecution and the hiring of truant officers to check absences. The state of Connecticut enacted a law in 1842 which stated that
In modern-day Canada, treaties have been negotiated and signed throughout its history for various purposes. Treaties are the building blocks of Canada as they began prior to the creation of Canada between the Indigenous and the Crown. There are approximately seventy historical treaties that are accredited by the Canadian government between the Indigenous and the Crown (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, 2008). The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) and the Anglo-American colonies signed a
Nationality in the Caribbean. Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico. 1997 Gonzalez, Jose Luis. Puerto Rico: The Four-Storey Country. New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc. 1993 Morris, Nancy. Puerto Rico:Culture, Politics, and Identity. Connecticut: Praeger. 1995
1997, Jamaica signed an agreement with the United States, the “Ship-Rider Agreement”, allowing the United States officials to ... ... middle of paper ... ...//fantasyisle.com/nature-and-climate-of-jamaica.html>. "Nutrition Country Profiles." Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. . "Outsourcing to Jamaica." Sourcing Line. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. . "Overview of Trade." Trade Reference Centre - Jamaica. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. . Simmons, Dorrett
issues with territorial expansion, there were also economic and social differences between North and South. These differences, being more than just one or two, gradually led to a war that was bound to happened one way or another. To understand the importance of the debate on if the Civil War was preventable or not, it is crucial to note how influential this event was on the nation as a whole. At Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Confederate artillery fired the first shots that begun the Civil War.
Westmoreland County, Virginia, the eldest son of Augustine Washington, a Virginia planter, and Mary Ball Washington. Although Washington had little or no formal schooling, his early notebooks indicate that he read in geography, military history, agriculture, deportment, and composition and that he showed some aptitude in surveying and simple mathematics. In later life he developed a style of speech and writing that, although not always polished, was marked by clarity and force. Tall, strong, and fond