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    Environmental Studies

    Definition
    Scope
    Importance
    Need for Public Awareness

    Definition
    Environmental studies deals with every issue that
    affects an organism.
    It is essentially a multidisciplinary approach that
    brings about an appreciation of our natural world
    and human impacts on its integrity.
    It is an applied science as its seeks practical
    answers to making human civilization sustainable
    on the earths finite resources.
    Its
    components
    include
    biology,
    geology,
    chemistry, physics, engineering, sociology, health,
    anthropology, economics, statistics, computers
    and philosophy.

    Scope
    As we look around at the area in which we live, we
    see that our surroundings were originally a natural
    landscape such as a forest, a river, a mountain, a
    desert, or a combination of these elements. Most of
    us live in landscapes that have been heavily
    modified by human beings, in villages, towns or
    cities.
    But even those of us who live in cities get our food
    supply from surrounding villages and these in turn
    are dependent on natural landscapes such as
    forests, grasslands, rivers, seashores, for resources
    such as water for agriculture, fuel wood, fodder, and
    fish.
    Thus our daily lives are linked with our surroundings
    and inevitably affects them. We use water to drink
    and for other day-to-day activities.

    We breathe air, we use resources from which food


    is made and we depend on the community of
    living plants and animals which form a web of life,
    of which we are also a part. Everything around us
    forms our environment and our lives depend on
    keeping
    its vital systems
    as intact
    possible
    Our
    dependence
    on nature
    is soas
    great
    that we
    cannot continue to live without protecting the
    earths environmental resources. Thus most
    traditions refer to our environment as Mother
    Nature and most traditional societies have
    learned that respecting nature is vital for their
    livelihoods.
    This has led to many cultural practices that
    helped traditional societies protect and preserve
    their natural resources. Respect for nature and all

    All our traditions are based on these values.


    Emperor Ashokas edict proclaimed that all
    forms of life are important for our well being in
    Fourth Century BC.
    The industrial development and intensive
    agriculture that provides the goods for our
    increasingly consumer oriented society uses up
    large amounts of natural resources such as
    water, minerals, petroleum products, wood, etc.
    Nonrenewable resources
    such as minerals and oil are those which will be
    exhausted in the future if we continue to extract
    these without a thought for subsequent
    generations.

    Renewable resources
    such as timber and water, are those which can be
    used but can be regenerated by natural processes
    such as regrowth or rainfall. But these too will be
    depleted if we continue to use them faster than
    nature can replace them.
    For example, if the removal of timber and firewood
    from a forest is faster than the regrowth and
    regeneration of trees, it cannot replenish the supply.
    And loss of forest cover not only depletes the forest
    of its resources, such as timber and other non-wood
    products, but affect our water resources because an
    intact natural forest acts like a sponge which holds
    water and releases it slowly.

    Importance
    Environment is not a single subject. It is an
    integration of several subjects that include both
    Science and Social Studies. To understand all the
    different aspects of our environment we need to
    understand
    biology,
    chemistry,
    physics,
    geography, resource management, economics and
    population issues
    Thus the scope of environmental studies is
    extremely wide and covers some aspects of nearly
    every major discipline.
    We live in a world in which natural resources are
    limited. Water, air, soil, minerals, oil, the products
    we get from forests, grasslands, oceans and from

    Each of us uses also increases, the earths


    resource base must inevitably shrink. The earth
    cannot be expected to sustain this expanding
    level of utilization of resources. Added to this is
    misuse of resources.
    We waste or pollute large amounts of natures
    clean water; we create more and more material
    like plastic that we discard after a single use;
    and we waste colossal amounts of food, which is
    discarded as garbage.

    Manufacturing processes create solid waste


    byproducts that are discarded, as well as
    chemicals that flow out as liquid waste and pollute
    water, and gases that pollute the air. Increasing
    amounts of waste cannot be managed by natural
    processes.
    These accumulate in our environment, leading to a
    variety
    of
    diseases
    and
    other
    adverse
    environmental impacts now seriously affecting all
    our lives. Air pollution leads to diseases, water
    pollution to gastro-intestinal diseases, and many
    pollutants are known to cause cancer.

    Improving this situation will only happen if each


    of us begins to take actions in our daily lives that
    will help preserve our environmental resources.
    We cannot expect Governments alone to
    manage the safeguarding of the environment,
    nor can we expect other people to prevent
    environmental damage. We need to do it
    ourselves. It is a responsibility that each of us
    must take on as ones own.

    NEED FOR PUBLIC AWARENESS


    As the earths natural resources are dwindling and
    our environment is being increasingly degraded by
    human activities, it is evident that something needs
    to be done. We often feel that managing all this is
    something that the Government should do. But if we
    go on endangering our environment,
    There is no way in which the Government can perform
    all these clean-up functions. It is the prevention of
    environment degradation in which we must all take
    part that must become a part of all our lives. Just as
    for any disease, prevention is better than cure. To
    prevent ill-effects on our environment by our actions,
    is economically more viable than cleaning up the
    environment once it is damaged.

    Individually we can play a major role in


    environment management. We can reduce
    wasting natural resources and we can act as
    watchdogs that inform the Government about
    sources that lead to pollution and degradation
    of our environment

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