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Concept and Scope of Environmental Management

Environmental management involves allocating natural resources to satisfy basic human needs now and in the future. It requires conscious choices that consider ecological factors and environmental constraints. The goals of environmental management include identifying and solving environmental problems, regulating resource use, controlling pollution and degradation, and assessing impacts. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and seeks to integrate natural and social sciences with policymaking. Key aspects include environmental awareness, education, resource management, controlling degradation and pollution, and impact assessment. Common approaches to natural resource management are community-based, adaptive, and integrated methods.

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Concept and Scope of Environmental Management

Environmental management involves allocating natural resources to satisfy basic human needs now and in the future. It requires conscious choices that consider ecological factors and environmental constraints. The goals of environmental management include identifying and solving environmental problems, regulating resource use, controlling pollution and degradation, and assessing impacts. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and seeks to integrate natural and social sciences with policymaking. Key aspects include environmental awareness, education, resource management, controlling degradation and pollution, and impact assessment. Common approaches to natural resource management are community-based, adaptive, and integrated methods.

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Environmental management- scope, aspect and its concept:

Environment:
The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces & other living
things which provide conditions for development & growth as well as of danger & damages. It
comprises the set of natural, social and cultural values existing in a place and at a particular time,
that influence in the life of the human being and in the generations to come. Our survival in
this planet earth depends on the proper management of environment. A good management of
environment can only bring a sustainable life to all in this planet earth.
The ecological balance and ecosystem stability are maintained by nature itself but the
anthropogenic activities of modern economic and technological development have disturbs the
harmonious relationship between the environment and human beings. 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.

Environmental management:
Environmental 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.
Environmental management is thus the process to improve the relationship between human and
environment which may be achieved through check on destructive activities of human,
conservation, protection, regulation and regeneration of nature.

The characteristic features of environmental management are:


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

General scheme for Environmental Management:


1. STEP I: Identification of objectives and define problems
2.STEP II: Determination of appropriate action plan
3.STEP III: Implementation & progress evaluation
4.STEP IV: Monitoring & adjust management
5.STEP V: Future environmental management and planning

Scope of environmental management:


Environmental management is very wide in scope and includes all the technical, economical and
other aspect of environment. The broader objectives of environmental management include:
a. To identify environmental problem and to find out its solution.
b. To restrict and regulate the exploitation and utilization of natural resources.
c. To regenerate degraded environment and to renew natural resources.
d. To control the impacts of extreme events and natural disasters.
e. To make optimum utilization of natural resources.
f. To control environmental pollution.
g. To access the impacts of proposed project and activities on environment.
h. To review and revise the existing technologies and make them eco-friendly.
i. To formulate laws for the implementation of environmental protection and conservation
progress.

Aspects of environmental management:


The components of environmental management can be based on five fundamental aspects:
1. Environmental perception and public awareness: It includes following points.
 Sources of environmental perception and public awareness.
 Level of environmental perception.
 Role of environmental perception in environmental planning and management.
2. Environmental education and training: Environmental education and training should
be given from school level by professional.
3. Resource management: The resource management consider the following points:
 Classification of natural resources.
 Survey and evaluation of ecological resources.
 Preservation of resources.
 Conservation of resources.
4. Control of environmental degradation and pollution: It can be checked by considering
following points:
 Control of environmental degradation.
 Control of pollution.
 Adapting suitable preventive mechanism to reduce natural hazards and disaster.
 Regeneration of degraded environment.
5. Environmental impact assessment: It include following points:
 Evaluation of existing environmental condition.
 Evaluation of existing and proposed production methods.
 Methodology and procedure.
 Probable impacts of existing and proposed project.
 Review of technology and required improvement.
Approaches of natural resources management:
There are various approaches of natural resource management such as
a. Command and control approach
b. Precautionary
c. Community based natural resource management
d. Adaptive resource management
e. Integrated natural resource management.

a. Community based natural management:


This approach combines conservation objectives with the generation of economic benefits for
rural communities. The three assumptions are:
a. Locals are better placed to conserve natural resources.
b. People will conserve a resource only if benefit excess cost of conservation.
c. People will conserve the resource that is linked directly to their quality of life.
When local people's quality of life is enhanced, their efforts and commitment ensure the future
wellbeing of resources. The united nations advocate the community based natural resource
management (CBNRM) in the convention of biodiversity and to combat the desertification.

b. Adaptive management:
The primary methodological approach adapted by management authorities for regional natural
resources management is adaptive resource management. This approach includes recognition of
that factor to adapt through a process called "Plan-do-review-act". It also recognizes seven key
components that should be consider for quality of natural resource management practice.
1. Determination of scale.
2. Collection of use of knowledge.
3. Information management.
4. Monitoring and evaluation.
5. Risk management.
6. Community engagement.
7. Opportunities for collaboration.

c. Integrated natural resource management:


It is a process of managing natural resource in a systematic way which includes multiple aspect
of natural resource use such as biophysical, socio-political and economics. It also meets
production goals of producers and other direct users as well as goals of the wider communities. It
focus on sustainability and at same tome tries to incorporate all possible stakeholders from the
planning level itself, reducing possible future conflicts. The conceptual basis of integrated
natural resource management has evolved in recent years through the convergence of research in
diverse areas such as sustainable land use, participated planning, integrated water shed
management and adaptive management. Integrated natural resource management is being used
extensively and being successful in regional and community based natural resource management.

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