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.

1. ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5.  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.

6.  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.

7. • 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
ENVIRONMENTAT
MANAGEMENT
are :

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

10. 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

12. ENVIRONMENTAL
PLANNING IN INDIA

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. THANK YOU
Yakshika Vats
ACCF