Environmental management

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3. 1. In your own opinion, what is environment?
2. Define Environmental Management?
3. Expectations in this class?

4. Activities in this class:
1. Research
2. Tribute to Nature
3. Tree Growing
4. Video Making

5. EVOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT

6. Environment
environment has been
derived from a French word
“Environia” means to
surround.
Abiotic (physical or non-living)
Biotic (living) environment

7. The word environment means surroundings, in
which organisms live.
Environment and the organisms are two dynamic
and complex component of nature.

8. Environment regulates the life of the organisms
including human beings.
Human beings interact with the environment
more vigorously than other living beings.

9. Environment is the sum total of conditions that
surrounds us at a given point of time and space. It
is comprised of the interacting systems of physical,
biological and cultural elements which are
interlinked both individually and collectively.
Environment is the sum total of conditions in
which an organism has to survive or maintain its
life process. It influences the growth and
development of living forms.

10. Environment is everything that is around us. It can be
living or non-living things. It includes physical, chemical
and other natural forces.
The environment is something you are very familiar
with. It's everything that makes up our surroundings and
affects our ability to live on the earth—the air we
breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's
surface, the plants and animals around us, and much
more.

11. In other words environment refers to those surroundings that
surrounds living beings from all sides and affect their lives. It
consists of atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. It’s
chief components are soil, water, air, organisms and solar energy. It
has provided us all the resources for leading a comfortable life.
1. According to P. Gisbert “Environment is anything
immediately surrounding an object and exerting a
direct influence on it.”
2. According to E. J. Ross “Environment is an external
force which influences us.”

12. MANAGEMENT

13. is the process of coordinating people and
other resources to achieve the goals of the
organization
The planning, organizing, leading, and controlling
of human and other resources to achieve
organizational goals effectively and efficiently
Managers the people responsible for supervising
the use of an organization's resources to meet its
goals.

14. EVOLUTION OF POST-1960S
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN

15. Mid 1960s to mid 1970s
Starting in the late 1950s, prior to the book's publication, Carson had
focused her attention on environmental conservation, especially
environmental problems that she believed were caused
by synthetic pesticides. The result of her research was Silent Spring,
which brought environmental concerns to the American public. The
book was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, but,
owing to public opinion, it brought about numerous changes. It
spurred a reversal in the United States' national pesticide policy, led to
a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses

16. Mid 1960s to mid 1970s
Between the 1960s and mid 1970s the focus was largely
on pollution (in some part due to Rachel Carson’s book
“Silent Spring” 1962), the population ‘explosion’ and the
careless use of technology.
Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel
Carson. The book was published on September 27, 1962,
documenting the adverse environmental effects caused by the
indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical
industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of
accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.

17. The 1972 United Nations (UN) Conference on Human Development
(Stockholm) was the first major international meeting to address
environment and development issues. The United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP), the first international UN environmental agency, was
established in 1973.
However, there was widespread suspicion of environmental concern,
and it was common for it to be seen as hindering development or as
part of a conspiracy to hold back poor nations. Even more widespread
was the attitude that environmental concern was a ‘luxury’ which
developing countries were too poor to address. Few countries had
environmental ministries and there was limited media and public interest
in rich or poor nations.

18. Mid 1970s to 1992
Many countries established environmental ministries, and agencies
established environmental departments; business became interested,
the media acquired green-issues editors, environmentalist NGOs and
international bodies sprang up and became more influential. By that
time, at least in the richer nations, the public was becoming more
familiar with environmental issues. There was a broadening
application, popularization and politicization of environmentalism–
‘greening’. One of the more influential publications of this period was
the Brundtland Report (World Commission on Environment and
Development,1987),which helped propagate and establish the concept
of sustainable development.

19. 1992 to the present
There has been a trend toward addressing issues, although attention
has perhaps been focused too much on the threat of global warming.
Social studies, business, economics and law have focused far more on
environmental management during this period and specialist support
disciplines have diversified and expanded.

20. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

21. Environmental management is not easy to define. As
Barrow (2005) has acknowledged, it can refer to a goal
or vision, to attempts to steer a process, to the
application of a set of tools, to a philosophical exercise
seeking to establish new perspectives towards the
environment and human societies, and to much more
besides.

22. Environmental managers are a diverse group of people
including academics, policy-makers, non-governmental
organization (NGO) workers, company employees, civil
servants and a wide range of individuals or groups who make
decisions about the use of natural resources (such as fishers,
farmers and pastoralists).

23. Environmental management therefore involves many
stakeholders and requires a multidisciplinary perspective. It
involves many spatial scales, ranging from the local to the
global. It also involves many, diverse goals, including the
desires to control the direction and pace of development, to
optimize resource use, to minimize environmental degradation
and to avoid environmental disaster. Environmental
management may be practiced by individuals and groups
holding conflicting - and even directly opposing - views, as may
be the case when environmental managers employed by large
multinational corporations come into conflict with
environmental managers representing voluntary organizations.

24. A FOCUS ON DECISION-MAKING

25. In general, however, environmental management is concerned
with the understanding of the structure and function of the
earth system, as well as of the ways in which humans relate to
their environment. Environmental management is therefore
concerned with the description and monitoring of
environmental changes, with predicting future changes and
with attempts to maximize human benefit and to minimize
environmental degradation due to human activities.

26. Yet, characteristically, environmental management is about decision-
making - and it is especially concerned with the process of decision-
making in relation to the use of natural resources, the pollution of
habitats and the modification of ecosystems. Fundamentally, then,
environmental management is a political activity because those
decisions - about resources, pollution and ecosystems - are never
neutral or objective; on the contrary, they are value laden and they
reflect the exercise of power by particular groups over others.

27. Moreover, in general, it is naïve to conceive of environmental
management as being about simply 'the management of the
environment' in the sense of humans manipulating and controlling the
components and processes of the earth system. Of course, humans do
exert such influences on the earth system; but it is a fallacy to think that
humans 'manage', for instance, populations of humpback whales.
Instead, it is more accurate to suggest that humans may be able to
make some progress towards managing human impacts on humpback
whales. Ultimately, then, environmental management is more
concerned with the management of human activities and their impacts
than with the management of the natural environment

37. Define the ff:
1. Atmosphere
2. Hydrosphere
3. Lithosphere
4. biosphere
(a) Micro environment and
(b) Macro environment
(c) Physical
(d) Biotic environment.

39. is the process of coordinating people and
other resources to achieve the goals of the
organization
The planning, organizing, leading, and controlling
of human and other resources to achieve
organizational goals effectively and efficiently
Managers the p people responsible for supervising
the use of an organization's resources to meet its
goals.