This presentation will help to understand more about the environment and sustainable issue. It also talks about different factors of the environment that affects sustainability. The presentation also talks about the linkage between the environment and poverty.
2. outline
Introduction
Dimensions of sustainable
development
Five basic cause of environmental
problems
Poverty and Environment : Linkages
Rural Poverty/ Development and
Environment
Urban Poverty/ Development and
Environment
Environmental challenges towards
sustainable development
Environmental Sustainability
Conclusion
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3. Introduction
Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present,
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is the process of making sure current processes of
interaction with the environment are pursued with the idea of keeping the
environment as pristine as naturally possible based on ideal-seeking behavior
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4. Dimensions of Sustainable Development
Social Dimension
Economic Dimension
Environmental Dimension
Reduced waste, effluent generation, emissions into environment.
Reduced impact on human health.
Use of renewable raw materials.
Elimination of toxic substances.
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6. Poverty and Environment : Linkages
Poverty and environment linkages are dynamic and context-specific
Rural poor are concerned with secure access to and the quality of natural
resources
Urban poor are concerned with access to clean water, energy, sanitation, and
security of housing
Poor women are concerned with safe and close access to potable water and
energy supplies
Incomplete property rights reinforce the vicious poverty-environment circle.
Population pressure exacerbates both poverty and environmental degradation.
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8. Urban Poverty/ Development and Environment
Urban poverty causes environmental degradation in two ways:
1. Industrialization and urban air pollution
Environmental Kuznets curve
Role of taxation in controlling pollution externalities
2. Congestion and availability of clean water and sanitation
Productivity losses
Financial feasibility of providing clean drinking water and sanitation for
all
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9. Environmental Challenges Towards Sustainable
Development
Climate change
Energy consumption
Waste production
Management of natural resources
Loss of biodiversity, and land use
Quality of air and water
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10. Environmental Sustainability
Consumption of non-
renewable resources
State of environment Sustainability
More than nature's ability to
replenish
Environmental degradation Not sustainable
Equal to nature's ability to
replenish
Environmental equilibrium Steady state economy
Less than nature's ability to
replenish
Environmental renewal Environmentally
sustainable
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11. Conclusion
1. Reducing harmful emission;
2. Developing clean technology for themselves and for less developed
countries (LDCs);
3. Changing their own environmentally harmful pattern of demand;
4. Stopping the shifting of dirty industries and dangerous chemicals to
underdeveloped countries.
5. Environmental indicators 11
Notes de l'éditeur
An "unsustainable situation" occurs when natural capital (the sum total of nature's resources) is used up faster than it can be replenished
Population growth
Wasteful and unsustainable resource use
Poverty
Failure to include environmental costs of goods and services in market prices
Too little knowledge of how nature works
Major causes of environmental problems are population growth, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, excluding the environmental costs of resource use from the market prices of goods and services, and trying to manage nature with insufficient knowledge.
Over- exploitation of ground water has resulted in scarcity of fresh and clean drinking water in many cities. In coastal areas unscientific exploitation of groundwater has been the cause of sea water intrusion and Stalinization. Large scale deforestation has caused the loss of biodiversity including economically important plant and animal species. Massive loss of vegetation has led to soil erosion and degradation of soil quality in downhill regions. Increase in the rate of sedimentation in stagnant and flowing water bodies is another impact of deforestation. Industrialization has raised serious environmental issues such as eutrophication of aquatic systems, global warming, ozone depletion and climatic change.