A presentation on the topic of environmental management and sustainable development and its fundamentals

1. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT,
ITS FUNDAMENTALS &
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2. ENVIRONMENT
Matrix of elements derived by evolution through nature and
contained by culture/ sum total of identified and identifiable
natural resources existing in finite qualities on earth and of the
quality of renewable resources.

3. WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ?
Optimal utilization of the finite resources between difference
possible uses.
Environmental criteria and economic consideration demand that
such an allocation be efficient.
Comprehensive planning that take s into account the side effects
of man’s activities and thereby protects and improves the human
environment for future generations.

4. DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
“Environmental management is concerned with the man-environment
interface, the complex boundary where bio-physical and socio-cultural
systems interacts”
-( Hare , 1970 )
“An approach which goes beyond natural resources management to
encompass the political and social as well as the natural environment”
-( Clarke , 1999 )

5. CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
It is an attempt to control human impact on and interaction with
the environment to preserve natural resources
Environmental management focuses on the improvement of
human welfare for present and future generations.
Administrative functions that develop, implement, and monitor
the environmental policy of an organisation

6. CHARACTERISTICS
It deals with world affected by humans.
It support sustainable development.
It demands a multidisciplinary approach.
It has to integrate different development viewpoints.
It seeks to integrate natural and policy making and planning.

7. IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT
DECISIONS
Sound environmental management, which is cost effective since
it achieves higher productivity through a more efficient use of
energy and raw materials, increases workforce motivation,
achieve enterprise goals of survival, growth and profitability,
with limited community conflict.

8. FUNDAMENTALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
Strategy levels
Compliance : a firm decides it will be in compliance with all
environmental, health and safety regulations .
Engaged : A firm is not only in compliants but also it
understand its environmental market opportunities and
proactively uses that knowledge to create engagements with the
values chain and other stakeholders to identify opportunities
paster.

9. Market driven : A firm responds not only to regulatory
requirements , but also reacts to it customers environment
expectation by providing leading products/services and
operational performance .
Shaping the future : a firm develops products and services for
current and future market conditions, addressing unmet social
needs by proactively integrating economics growth

10. WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Usage of ground and underground water by the industry causes huge droughts
and contamination to a massive area by exploiting an excessive amount of ground
water and then replacing it with toxic discharge
85% of rural drinking water and 55% of urban water comes from underground
sources has caused the national water table to suddenly and very dramatically
drop.
The rivers are slowly been polluted and destroyed by sewage, chemicals and other
agricultural and industrial waste.

11. FOREST RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Almost 5.3 million hectres of forest have been destroyed since the
independence for housing, industrialisation and river projects.
Poor management and abuse of power are again the increasingly sad cause
behind mass deforestation poaching.
The invantion of foreign trees species such as Eucalyptus etc..

12. ENERGY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Energy resource management can be defined as the process of monitoring,
controlling and conserving energy in any setting.
India has a problem of inadequate energy
The country produces about 2.4 % of its energy needs and consumes about
3.4 %

13. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

14. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development
goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural
resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.
“Sustainable development can be defined as development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations.”
-Brundtland Commission (Our Common Future)

15. 3 COMPONENTS OF SD
Sustainable development is not just about the environment. Its focus is much broader than
that. Its all about meeting the diverse needs of people in different communities, social
cohesion, creating equal opportunity to ensure a strong and healthy society. Sustainable
development also focuses on finding better ways of doing things without affecting quality of
our life.
Economic Growth
Environmental Stewardship
Social Inclusion

16. IMPORTANCE
• Provides essential human needs.
• Agricultural requirement.
• Manage climate change.
• Financial stability.
• Sustain bio-diversity.

17. GOALS
The 3 important goals of sustainable development;
 To minimize the depletion of natural resources when creating new developments.
 To create development that can be maintained and sustained without causing further harm to
the environment.
 To provide methods for retrofitting existing developments to make them into environmentally
friendly facilities and projects.

18. GOALS
 Eradication of poverty across the world
 Promotion of good health and well-being
 Provision of quality education for all
 Provision of clean water and sanitation
 Building up strong infrastructure, supporting inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and incubating innovation
 Enabling Access to affordable and clean energy
 Achieving gender equality

19. HOW CAN WE MAKE IT HAPPEN?
To make sustainable development the norm, we have to change the vision of the cultures of
each country. To change the vision of the culture two things have to occur.
• The culture must value a global benefit more than a local one.
• A responsibility towards providing and sustaining resources for the future must be of
more value than profit in the present must be developed.

20. THANK YOU