Did you know that an average refugee lives in a camp for 17 years?

The refugees coming

to Houston will struggle with the multiple types of religions that will exist within the camp.
Thus, we are able to stably, support one million refugees.
The native societies had a mixture of a hunter-gatherer and a small agriculture society
within the tribes. They used tools like nets, weirs, dugout tools and bows and arrows in order to
complete the tasks in their societies before the Europeans arrived. Whenever the Europeans
arrived, they transformed the ways native societies in a multitude of ways. For instance, the
Europeans trade Native Americans with numerous objects for guns. This then made the Native
Americans more effective and efficient hunters that lead to extinction of large mammals like the
bison. Based on historical evidence in Houston some recommendations for arriving in Houston is
to respect other peoples property and articles. Another recommendation for the refugees is to
ensure that they obey the laws since law enforcement is strict. Some changes that could possibly
occur in Lebanon is the land becomes infertile since war is ravaging their country. However,
change that could happen in Houston is the increase of competition for jobs and space on
highways.
Furthermore, the refugees need to wholly, understand what survivorship curves and
reproductive strategies in order to have stable environment otherwise their camp will fail. K and
R-Strategist divide the different reproductive strategies while type 1, 2, and 3 are the types of
survivorship curves that organisms can have. The ideal strategy and curve the refugees would be
a K-strategy and a type 1 curve this allows them to survive infancy and die when they are usually
older. By using these strategies, the refugees will have a high chance of stable environment.
Through history, multiple large mammals have been successful since they tend to be more
intelligent than other organisms that have many offsprings. Consequently, they have a low

survive rate at their infancy years. Therefore, a stable environment can be created through the use
and understanding of survivorship curves and reproductive strategies.
Another way to create a stable environment is applying the demographic transition
theory, which describes the phase a society or country is in that revolves around death and birth
rates. Multiple countries are in stage four, which is the ideal stage to be in since most of the
countries are developed. Some countries are Germany, United Kingdom, and Japan. These
countries have a low birth and death rate but it is best that the refugee camp goes through all the
stages, which are pre-transition, transition, industrial, and post-industrial. Most countries when
they start are in pre-transition and have to work its way to post-industrial because there is not a
country that starts at post-industrial. Subsequently, societies need to work their way through the
demographic transition theory in order to achieve a stable environment.
One more topic that leads to a stable environment is through the comprehension of the
maximum refugee population the location can support. This occurs in animal populations
through animals that are prey suddenly do not have any more predators to eat them. This leads to
the increase of the animal population then the environment cannot support the animal anymore.
This is rapid growth of the population is called exponential growth rather than having sigmodal
growth. Exponential growth has possibly lead to animal extinctions in history but today scientist
monitor the population of the animals. Hence, humans work identically to this as well, they need
to make sure they do not grow to quickly otherwise the environment cannot support them.
For those reasons, the refugees will be able to have a stable environment as long as they
apply these topics to their resettlement in Houston. These examples should provide a clear reason
towards the implications of them. Therefore, the failure and success of the camp is in the hands
of the refugees but will they rise up or crumple to the ground. It is their choice after all.

Alreshaid, N. (2016). LODGING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN THE

INTERNATIONAL TRADE REGIME: FROM TRADE RHETORIC TO TRADE
PLETHORIC. Sustainable Development Law & Policy, 16(2), 4-40.
In Lodging the Sustainable Development Goals in the International Trade Regime: From
Trade Rhetoric to Trade Plethoric, Alreshaid studies how the global trade challenges
could be mere air turbulence if sustainable development goals are used. The author
expresses the needs and constituents of states through sustainable development goals.
Alreshaid uses questions and quotes to help get the audience thinking in his mindset,
which distinguishes his work. It causes the work to be more critically analytical because
of the thoughtful quotes and questions. However, what demeans this work is the inability
to provide tables or models. This makes the journal a little harder to fully comprehend but
also get a visual for what he means. Other than that, Alreshaid is a S.J.D. candidate at the
American University of Washington in the College of Law. He is also a member of the
Kuwaiti National Council on Human Rights and co-authored Kuwaits National Report
on Human Rights and Civil and Political Rights Report. Finally, he has graduated from
NYU School of Law, Kuwait University and the University of Sharjah.
GONZLEZ-SUREZ, M., & GERBER, L. R. (2008). A Behaviorally Explicit Demographic
Model Integrating Habitat Selection and Population Dynamics in California Sea Lions.
Conservation Biology, 22(6), 1608-1618. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00995.x
In A Behaviorally Explicit Demographic Model Integrating Habitat Selection and
Population Dynamics in California Sea Lions, Gerber and Suarez examine the sensitivity
of model predictions to the inclusions of behavioral parameters of California Sea Lions.

They analyze the cost and benefits of movements associated with two habitat-strategies.
They provide numerous models to help support and clarify their reasoning behind their
statistics. This allow the reader to have a visual of what they encountered on their test but
also helps the reader stay focused on the idea at hand due to the multiple equations and
numbers in the journal. However, they lack in explaining the graphs, which deteriorates
the journal. This may confuse some readers since more than half of the journal has a
graph on each page. Additionally, Gonzalez-Suarez is a professor in the University of
Reading and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology. As for Gerber, she
is a professor at the Arizona State University and has had a manifold of publications.
Their work and credibility contradicts their weakness.
Grzebyk, M., & Stec, M. (2015). Sustainable Development in EU Countries: Concept and
Rating
of Levels of Development. Sustainable Development, 23(2), 110-123.
doi:10.1002/sd.1577
In the Sustainable Development in EU Countries: Concept and Rating of Levels of
Development, Grzebyk and Stec describes their work in the levels of sustainable
development by a synthetic measure of economic, social, and environmental components.
Thus, they compared countries by the mentioned measurements and grouped them. The
addition of statistics strengthens their points in the journal. It creates a comprehension
between the reader and the authors. However, a drawback to their work is that they do not
have section titles that divide into different sections. This is shown because they journal
is split into three sections and some of the sections should be divided into another section.
Both Grzebyk and Stec are professors at the University of Rzeszow in Poland. Stec has

had her work featured in numerous publications and is a member in the committee of
Promotion and Cooperation Surrounding the Faculty of Economics. Meanwhile, Grzebyk
has two publications and has a PhD in business economics.
Le Blanc, D. (2015). Towards Integration at Last? The Sustainable Development Goals as a
Network of Targets. Sustainable Development, 23(3), 176-187. doi:10.1002/sd.1582
In Towards Integration at Last? The Sustainable Development Goals as a Network of
Targets, Le Blanc explains Millennium Development Goals as reference goals for the
international development community. He uses network analysis techniques to show
thematic areas covered by sustainable development goals. Furthermore, the use of
detailed and thorough explanation of the graphs reinforce his quality of work. His work
improves through providing visual representation of what he is trying explain in the
journal. Despite his well thought graphs and explanation, his terminology is often
confusing for the reader. This creates a dull interaction with the reader and the journal it
also does not allow the reader to ponder about his work. Nevertheless, Le Blanc is a
globally recognized authority on MSR technologies and received his PhD in Physics at
the University of Ottawa. He previously worked in the physics department at Carleton
University, has an abundant amount of published works, and acknowledgements.
Lechterbeck, J., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T., Fyfe, R., Roberts, N., & Shennan, S. (2014).
Is Neolithic land use correlated with demography? An evaluation of pollen-derived land
cover and radiocarbon-inferred demographic change from Central Europe. The
Holocene, 24(10), 1297-1307. doi:10.1177/0959683614540952

In Neolithic land use correlated with demography? An evaluation of pollen-derived land

cover and radiocarbon-inferred demographic change from Central Europe, the authors
explain that their overall objective is to examine relationships between land-cover and
demographic change. They focus on a specific area to study the land-cover change and
have demographic proxy to help them acquire their data. Focusing on a specific region
and explaining it meticulously provides a strong point in the journal. This allows the
authors to have a valid and justified reason for only one region to study rather than five in
order to have data that is more diverse. However, a weakness to their work is that it is
rather short for six authors since it only has eight pages without including the references.
This is an issue since most of the authors are professors, people would generally expect
one professor to write at least twenty or so pages. Since Edinborough, Kerig, Fyfe,
Roberts, and Shennan are professors in top universities and colleges throughout the world
the shortness of the academic journal lowers their work quality.
Mohareb, E., & Kennedy, C. (2012). Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenario Modeling for Cities
Using the PURGE Model. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 16(6), 875-888.
doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00563.x
In Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenario Modeling for Cities Using the PURGE Model,
Mohareb and Kennedy describe how greenhouse gas emissions different things release
the gases. They emphasize that they use the PURGE model that estimates the emissions
of greenhouse gases in the greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada area. Additionally, they
provide graphs with colored coding to show the emissions of the gases from different
things and objects. This allows the reader to have a visual of what the authors are
explaining rather than just stating numbers and percents. However, the use of equations

with a complex format could potentially confuse the reader and lower his quality of work.
Thus, if Mohareb and Kennedy use equations they need to thoroughly, explain the use of
the equations otherwise the reader could become uninterested in the journal.
Nevertheless, the authors are more than creditable for writing about this issue. Mohareb
is a lecturer at the University of Reading and acquired his PhD at the University of
Toronto.
Pelayo-Villamil, P., Guisande, C., Vari, R. P., Manjarrs-Hernndez, A., Garca-Rosell, E.,
Gonzlez-Dacosta, J., & ... Lobo, J. M. (2015). Global diversity patterns of freshwater
fishes - potential victims of their own success. Diversity & Distributions, 21(3), 345-356.
doi:10.1111/ddi.12271
In Global Diversity Patterns of Freshwater Fishes Potential Victims of Their Own
Success, the authors view the patterns and cumulative curves of the descriptions of
freshwater fish based on different variables. They were discovering the effects of factors
on different species of fish throughout the world. Furthermore, the authors provide an
adequate amount of graphs to support their problem and results. This allows the journal
to create a clearer and more understood journal that overall improves the journal.
However, one thing that degrades this work is the shortness of the journal since there was
fourteen authors in it. This allows the reader to infer that some of the authors were not
able to contribute as much as the other authors since the journal is only nine pages. Still,
the authors have good credibility with most of them working at the University of Vigo in
Spain. Although, some authors have degrees relating to engineering or math while others
have degrees with science and the environment the overall work in the journal is good
quality.

Roy Chowdhury, T., Herndon, E. M., Phelps, T. J., Elias, D. A., Gu, B., Liang, L., & ... Graham,
D. E. (2015). Stoichiometry and temperature sensitivity of methanogenesis and CO2
production from saturated polygonal tundra in Barrow, Alaska. Global Change Biology,
21(2), 722-737. doi:10.1111/gcb.12762
In Stoichiometry and Temperature Sensitivity of Methanogenesis and CO2 Production
from Saturated Polygonal Tundra in Barrow, Alaska, the authors explain they used anoxic
laboratory incubations to estimate anaerobic CO2 production and methanagenesis in
active layer and permafrost samples from various positions of water in Barrow
Environmental Observatory. They indicate that methanagenesis is the highlighted and
focused idea in the journal. The authors are able to clearly, effectively define what
methanagenesis is. This enables the reader to understand what exactly the authors are
discussing in the journal. However, the use of many abbreviations of elements increases
the complexity of journal. Thus, the reader could easily get confused with which elements
the author are talking about in the sentence. Nevertheless, all of the authors are well
qualified to be writing over this subject. Most of authors except for Herndon, they all
work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. While, Herndon is a professor at Kent State
University.
Wilson, G. A. (2014). Community Resilience, Transitional Corridors and Macro-Scalar Lock-in
Effects. Environmental Policy & Governance, 24(1), 42-59. doi:10.1002/eet.1620
In Community Resilience, Transitional Corridors and Macro-Scalar Lock-in Effects,
Wilson critically analyzes community resilience and the transition theory. Wilson offers
background information on community resilience and the transition theory then provides

an example that covers community resilience, transitional corridors and macro-scalar

lock-in effects. The conclusion strengthens his overall work through recapping his main
topics of his article. This allows the reader to understand the authors topics and most
important notes from the article. The use of only one example to cover all the topics in
the article demeans his work. It demeans his work by showing the ability to provide
multiple examples that cover all the topics in the article. This however is quick
overlooked due to his numerous accounts of being reference and published in books and
articles. He is a chairperson in for graduate affairs in the School of Geography in
Plymouth University. He has also has a PhD in Geography from the University of Otago
in New Zealand.