SUBJECT- ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

TOPIC- SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL

STUDIES
PRESENTED BY-
AKSHAT GOEL
SANA SACHDEVA
YASHVI JAIN
RISHI BANSAL
 WHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENT?

An Environment is everything that is around us, which includes both living

and nonliving things such as soil, water, animals, and plants, which adapt
themselves to their surroundings. It is nature’s gift that helps in nourishing
life on Earth. The environment plays an important role in the existence of life
on the planet earth. The word Environment is derived from the French word
“Environ” which means “surrounding.” An ecosystem refers to all the living
and non-living things present in the environment and it is a foundation of the
Biosphere, which determines the health of the entire planet earth. Ecology
and Environmental science are the branches of life science, which mainly
deal with the study of organisms and their interactions with other organisms
and their environment.
TYPES OF ECOSYSTEMS
There are two main types of ecosystems. Listed below are the types and
examples of the ecosystem:
• Natural ecosystem – It is a naturally produced biological environment
found in nature. It includes deserts, forests, grasslands, lakes,
mountains, ponds, rivers, oceans, etc.
• Artificial ecosystem – It is an artificial environment created and
maintained by man. It includes an aquarium, crop fields, gardens,
parks, a zoo, etc.
The components of the environment are mainly divided
into two categories:

•The biotic environment includes all living organisms

such as animals, birds, forests, insects, reptiles, and
microorganisms like algae, bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.

•The abiotic environment includes all non-living

components such as air, cloud, dust, land, mountains,
rivers, temperature, humidity, water, water vapor,
sand, etc.
 IMPORTANCE OF OUR
ENVIRONMENT
Environment plays an important
role in healthy living and the
existence of life on planet earth.
Earth is a home for different
living species and we all are
dependent on the environment
for food, air, water, and other
needs. Therefore, it is important
for every individual to save and
protect our environment.
SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

• Our surrounding includes forest, rivers,

mountains, desert, or a combination of these
elements.
• Most of us live in landscapes that have been
heavily modified by human beings in villages,
towns, and cities.
• But even those of us who live in cities get our
food supply from surrounding villages
 SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

• We use water to drink and do

other day-to-day activities, we
breathe air, and we use resources
from which food is made.
• Our dependence on nature is so
great that we cannot continue to
live without protecting the earth’s
environmental resources.
BASIS OF SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENT
STUDIES
1.BASIC SCOPE

2.CAREER ORIENTED SCOPE

3.SPECIALIZED SCOPE
BASIC SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENT
STUDIES
1. NATURAL RESORCE MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION- ways in which societies manage
the supply of or access to the natural resources upon which they rely for their survival and development.
Insofar as humans are fundamentally dependent on natural resources, ensuring the ongoing access to or a
steady provision of natural resources has always been central to the organization of civilizations.

2. ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY- Biodiversity describes the richness and variety of life on earth. It is
the most complex and important feature of our planet. Without biodiversity, life would not sustain. Biodiversity
holds ecological and economic significance. It provides us with nourishment, housing, fuel, clothing and several
other resources.

3. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND CONTROL- pollution control, in environmenmtal

engineering, any of a variety of means employed to limit damage done to the environment by the discharge of
harmful substances and energies. Specific means of pollution control might include refuse disposal
systems such as sanitary landfills, emission control systems for automobiles.
4. Social Issues w.r.t to
Environment-
Global environmental changes—such as pollution,
climate change, biodiversity loss, and freshwater
decline—affect people worldwide, with impacts that
are not just physical, but also social and economic.
These changes affect family and community stability,
social relationships, health, and sometimes
survival.Urban Problems, Sustainable Development,
Reclamation Projects, etc.

5.Human population &

environment-
It looks at how demographers and other social
scientists have attempted to explain the connections
between population dynamics (such as population
size, growth, density, age and sex mix, migration,
urbanisation, and vital rates) and environmental
changes.Study of various population factors, Human
Rights, Value Education.
 CAREER ORIENTED SCOPE
I. Research & Development in
Environment(Environmental
Scientists)
II. Green Advocacy
III. Green Marketing
IV. Green Media
V. Human Population And Environment
Green Marketing- Green marketing is the promotion of
environmentally friendly products, services, and initiatives. More
specifically, green marketing refers a broad range of environmentally
friendly practices and strategies. Some green marketing examples include:
Creating eco-friendly products.Environment friendly or eco-friendly
products with ISO14000 certification or eco mark.

Green Media- Green Environment” relates to the concerns for

environmental conservation and improved health of the environment. This includes
supporting practices like informed consumption, conservation practices and
investment in renewable energy.Magazines, Advertisements, Mass media.
Research & Development in Environment(Environmental
Scientists)- The scheme for research and development has been initiated for promoting and
initiating need based environmental research in the priority areas of pollution monitoring, disaster
management mitigation, low cost waste treatment, river/lake water quality monitoring, solid waste
management, climate change studies Pollution remedies, Clean up technologies, Energy solutions.

Green Advocacy- Environmental advocacy is presenting information on ecological

issues as a way to encourage audiences to adopt more environmentally sensitive practices and
biocentric worldviews.Emerging requirement of environment Lawyers top lead for environment.
HUMAN POPULATION & ENVIRONMENT-
IT LOOKS AT HOW DEMOGRAPHERS AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENTISTS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO EXPLAIN
THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN POPULATION DYNAMICS (SUCH AS POPULATION SIZE, GROWTH,
DENSITY, AGE AND SEX MIX, MIGRATION, URBANISATION, AND VITAL RATES) AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CHANGES.STUDY OF VARIOUS POPULATION FACTORS, HUMAN RIGHTS, VALUE EDUCATION.
 SPECIALIZED SCOPE
1) Environmental Biotechnology
2) Environmental Management
3) Environmental Law
4) Environmental Economics
5) Environmental Journalism
6) Green technologies
7) Clean development mechanisms
 ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT LAW
BIOTECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

Environment Environmental Environment

al Management al law,
offers research principles,
biotechnolog and opinions policies,
y in particular on use and directives, and
is the conservation of regulations
application of natural enacted and
processes for resources, enforced by
the protection of local, national,
protection habitats and or international
and control of entities to
restoration of hazards, regulate
spanning the human
the quality of field of treatment of
the environmental the nonhuman
environment. management world.
without regard
to traditional
disciplinary
boundaries.
 CLEAN
ENVIRONMENT GREEN DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT
JOURNALISM TECHNOLOGIES MECHANISMS
ECONOMICS
The Clean
Environmental Environmental Green tech refers Development
economics is an journalism is the to a type of Mechanism (CD
evolving discipline collection, technology that is M) is a United
that developed as verification, considered Nations-
a result of production, environmentally run carbon
environmental distribution and friendly based on offset scheme
damage caused exhibition of its production allowing countries
by economic information process or its to
activities and the regarding current supply chain. fund greenhouse
pursuit of events, trends, gas emissions-
Although the reducing projects
sustainable and issues market for green
development. associated with in other countries
technology is and claim the
It is concerned the non-human relatively young, it
world. To be an saved emissions
with the design of has garnered a as part of their
environmental environmental significant amount
journalist, one own efforts to
policies and their of investor meet
implementation. must have an interest
understanding of international emis
scientific sions targets. It is
language. one of the
three Flexible
Mechanisms defin
ed in the Kyoto
Protocol