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Environment Management
Sustainable Development
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Sustainable Development
Have to choose between environment anddevelopment.
Industrial development and decent standardof living at the cost of environment anddepletion of natural resources.
Both industrialized countries andunderdeveloped or developing countriesdamage, deplete and pollute the environment.
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Sustainable Development
Basic question is what is the pattern of
growth and development we must follow?
Individuals, corporations and nations cansynchronize their economic activities with the
environment to ensure that future
generations will enjoy the same natural
amenities as our own generation.
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Sustainable DevelopmentNatural amenities include clean air and water
abundant forests, fertile soil and all the
glories of nature.What kind of model of development and
business model we should follow without
ignoring the principles of sustainability?
Both consumption and life style of people
have relevance to environmental problems.
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Sustainable Development
Therefore living habits and attitudinal and
ethical questions have entered intoenvironmental management area.
Need changes at the local, regional, national
and at global levels together with economicand social transformation.
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DefinitionRate of consumption or use of natural
resources should approximate the rate at
which these resources can be substituted orreplaced.
Development which meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability offuture generations to meet their own needs.
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DefinitionNation or society is able to satisfy its
requirements social,economic and others
without compromising the interest of futuregenerations.
SD means concerns for protecting
environment and avoiding depletion of non-renewable resources.
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DefinitionRequires shifting of reliance on one source toanother.
Also refers to equity. Equal access toresources.
It is futile to talk about environmentalproblems and SD if the problems of
inequality, poverty and the principle ofintergenerational distribution of resources areignored.
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Definition
At a minimum SD must not endanger the
natural systems that support life on earth: the
atmosphere, the water, the soils and the
living beings.
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Sustainable DevelopmentBusiness jargon gardens have been working
overtime.
CSR,EQ,TQM and now it is SD.Business as usual Business as unusual.Growing number of international companies
acknowledge the need to address the triple
bottom line of SD.They are Dupont,Ford, Novartis, Shell,
Unilever etc.
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Sustainable DevelopmentFinancial markets are also waking up.
They are increasingly interested not only in
eco-efficiency, but in business ethics, CSRand human rights all potentially part of SD
agenda.
SD performances are included in the portfolioscreening for major socially responsible
investment(SRI) funds.
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Sustainable DevelopmentDeveloped countries use too many of natural
resources and it cannot continue for long.
Nature has been offering its resources andservices and also serving as a receptacle forabsorbing waste for long.
Nature is fragile and finite.
There are evidence to prove that we havereached a critical limit beyond whichecological decline would lead to disaster.
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Sustainable DevelopmentHow economic,social and environmental
systems interact at various scales of
operation in a way that would lead tosustainable development.
Also SD must lead to reducing poverty of
people in developing countries by means that
minimize resource depletion,environmental
damage and social instability.
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Sustainability Agenda
PR people
Make the first contacts.Some understand, others do not.
See better communication as the way
forward.
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Environmental People
Think in terms of inputs, outputs and impacts.95% solution if we clean up emissions and
cut back toxic waste
Sustainability Agenda
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Sustainability Agenda
Engineers
Comfortable when they hear that thechallenge can be reduced.
Search is on for more eco-efficient process
and products.
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Sustainability Agenda
Legal people
Trained to ensure that organisations comply
with relevant laws.
Finds agenda of sustainability unnerving.
Complexity of regulatory environment is also
growing.
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Sustainability Agenda
Accountants
Risk of their market value collapsing.
Discovery of unsuspected environmental andother liabilities.
Investor relations people agree.
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Environmental Realities
The promise of SD that we can exploit the
environment without causing lasting damage
is irresistible.But the reality is some hard truths.
In much of the world the environment is
already in a bad condition.The condition of environment is getting
worse, not better.
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Key Environmental Problems
1. Loss of agricultural lands.
2. Loss of biodiversity.
3.
Pollution of the global atmosphere.
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1. Loss of agricultural lands
Single most dangerous problem and the onewith least attention from leaders.
Due to over cultivation,soilerosion,salinization of irrigated lands anddesertification,degradation and outright lossof agricultural land combined with growing
population.Difficult to meet food supply needs even 20
years from now with tech. breakthroughs.
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2. Loss of Biodiversity
So far identified 1.7 million species out of 14
million that was.
Between 1 to 11 percent being lost in 10years.
Causes: deforestation,expansion of
cities,water pollution and overexploitation.
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3. Pollution of globalatmosphere
Air pollution is the gravest we face.Ozone layer thinning Montreal
protocol(1987).Countries agreed to reduce and eliminate
production of ozone depleting gases.Developing countries 10 year grace period.Developed countries stopped.Ozone layer started regeneratingfull by
2100.
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The Underlying Cause ofDestruction
1. Population growth.
2. Economic growth.
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Population growth
Some Asian countries have lowered
population growth.
While it is true that time it takes for thepopulation to double has been extended from
15 or 20 years to 50 years.
But this is no long term solution.Population will increase by more than 40% by
2025.
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Economic growth
Population growth may account for as much
as 50% of environmental degradation.
As people become wealthier diets shift fromvegetable to animal products.
Renewable sources of energy(wood) are
replaced by fossil fuels(gas).Newly affluent farmers build large houses
consuming wood and scarce land resources.
Important Fundamentals of
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Important Fundamentals of
environment and
Sustainable development Population. Limits to growth. Economy. Poverty. Human
settlement
issues. Land Resources. Forests.
Mountains. Agriculture. Bio diversity. Protection of oceans. Business and
industry.
Ecological deficit. Village community &
involvement.
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