Environmental Management and Sustainability

Environmental Management and Sustainability

 

In general, environmental management and sustainability deals with managing the bodies of water, land and atmosphere based on the sustainability policy and principles.  In this relation, land use change is important to the management of biosphere because of the changes made in the environment by the urbanization, agriculture, forest, woodland, grassland and pasture.  All these factors have great effects on the global bodies of water, carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles of the earth’s atmosphere. Therefore, proper management of the earth’s atmosphere should involve the evaluation of all elements of the carbon cycle in order to identify the causes of climate change that made by man.  The catastrophic effects of climate change to mankind have been resulted to numerous calamities and disasters to various countries in the world.  According to this study, ocean circulation patterns have a strong influence on climate and weather and, in turn, the food supply of both humans and other organisms is in shortage level these days.  Furthermore, during the Copenhagen Climate Council Meeting in March 200, w, 500 climate experts from 90 countries had noted that there is a need for a strong carbon reduction from human communities   to avoid total global warming potential catastrophic effects to biodiversity and to entire mankind. 

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Furthermore, the other factors that  gradually destroys   the earth’s atmosphere include air pollution in cities, the pollutants including toxic chemicals like nitrogen oxides, sculpture oxides, volatile organic compounds and particulate matter that produce photochemical smog and acid rain, and the chlorofluorocarbons that degrade the ozone layer. Anthropogenic particulates such as sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere reduce the direct irradiance and reflectance (albedo) of the Earth‘s surface.  Due to these serious man-made pollutants, global dimming may even disturb the global water cycle through decreasing the evaporation and rainfall in some areas in the earth. It also creates a cooling effect and this may have partially masked the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming.  By some means, ocean movement has a strong influence on the climate and weather condition in the earth.  This is the main reason that even the people and other organisms food supply are drastically reducing.  Many scientists have expressed their fear of the many catastrophic possibilities that climate change will bring to mankind.  And, the worst that can possibly happen, which obviously is happening already to mankind, is the awful impact of climate change on the habitable areas of the ocean fringes such as estuaries, coastline and bays.  It is found out that 600 million people are living in the low-lying areas which are closer to sea border.  And, in this climate condition, these people must be taking extra precaution during high tide and strong typhoon that will certainly bring disaster to them in many ways.

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Moreover, the current trends such as illegal fishing, coral bleaching, ocean acidification and the widespread of sea pollution caused by human wastes are major factors that increased the levels of dissolve carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere. The only human remedies that can be done  include the  proper waste disposal management, statutory control and regulation of illegal forestation, overfishing through a sustainable fishing practices; as well as  the use of environmentally sensitive and sustainable aquaculture and fish farming, reduction of fossil fuel emissions  from industrial areas and restoration of coastal and other marine habitat.  Additionally, the environmental sustainability issue has been proven   a great problem of mankind. There are many environmentalist groups from all over the world who have been trying to solve the current ecological problem, but still, minimal results are obtained. Various ecological groups strongly believe that the human system and practices are the major factors that prevent from complete environmental sustainability.  It is also added that sustainable development as well as the effective management of environment have a significant impacts on the global and local levels.  It has been widely known that   proper understanding about  environmental sustainability and   how to integrate its  methods and principles into daily practices of humans make the environment, as well as the economic, so as to the entire society to become well rounded community and  productive. This kind of painstaking move will help tremendously in integrating global environment and development agendas; at the same time to   evaluate and monitor the efficient and effective environmental strategies and techniques of various international and local organizations for the promotion of a clean and sustainable environment. This environmental program will provide a better insight on how to combine the economic, environmental, societal and ethical elements in order to achieve a sustainable global economy.

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References:

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