ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Environmental Management??

Environment and development are interlinked expressions. In fact there are the two sides of the same coin. The environmental degradation, in fact, started with the advent of human civilization. There is a mythological statement that the process of Adam and Eve who ate an apple and threw away the peels led to the onset of environmental degradation.

The process of environmental degradation was accelerated with the development of socio-economic activities, as for example, agriculture, industrialization, drugs and pharmaceuticals, transport, civil construction including roads and buildings etc., with growing population the requirement of food-grains and other consumer items increased stupendously, leading to further environmental degradation.

Environment management is the process of allocating natural and man-made

resources so as to make optimum use of the environment in satisfying not only the existing basic human needs but of

the coming generations also. This management implies an element of conscious choice from a variety of

alternative proposals and furthermore that such a choice involves purposeful

commitment for recognized and desired objectives.

Environment management implies not only a mere management of environment but it is essentially the management of

various activities with intolerable constraints imposed by the environment

itself and with full consideration of ecological factors. Thus it involves

environmental planning, conservation of resources, environmental status

evaluation and environmental legislation and administration.

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The focus of environmental management is on implementation,

monitoring and auditing; on practice and coping with real-world

issues rather than theoretical planning. A close integration with

environmental planning is inescapable. Thus environmental management is a field of study

dedicated to understanding human-environment interactions and the application of science to

solving problems.

•It deals with world affected by humans;•It supports sustainable development;•It demands a multidisciplinary approach;•It has to integrate different development viewpoints•The time-scale involved extends the short term and concern ranges from local to global ; and It seeks to integrate natural and social science, policy making and planning.

The characteristic features

of ENVIRONM

ENTAT MANAGEMENT are :

During the last four decades too much awareness has been

developed regarding environmental protection and quality of life. The

meaning and content of environment is being renewed

regularly with new technologies like clean technology, environmental auditing, environmental friendly products, environmental impact

assessment, environmental resource conservation, etc. added.

But all these aspects have been converged when the wider concept of environmental management has emerged and also accepted as a tool for sustainable

development.

Significance..

Environmental Management is an approach which integrates Ecology, Policy making, Planning and Social development. Its main objectives are as follows:-

To prevent and solve environmental problems.

To establish limits.

To develop research institutions and monitoring systems.

To warn threats and identify opportunities.

To suggest measures for resource conservation.

To develop a strategy for the improvement of quality.

To suggest long-term and short-term policies for sustainable development.

To identify new technology for future development

In brief,

environmental management is necessary for environmental planning which implies the optimal utilization of the earth’s resources and preservation of the quality of environment for the healthy growth of the society.

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING IN INDIA

India is a country where all the components of environment have been considered as life support systems from ancient times and their protection has been of paramount importance. The air, water, land, vegetation, soil, rivers, mountain, trees, animals etc. have been considered as sacred in one form or the other. There was a general public opinion to protect all these as a part of religious activity.

Although at that time there was no problem of environment because of limited population and of simple pattern of life, gradually, especially during the present century, with the growth of population, industrialization, urbanization as well as growth of other economic activities, environmental problems have developed, therefore, a planning strategy is necessary.

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Yakshika VatsACCF