Environmental Management (Environmental Studies): Questions, Assignments, Projects

Environmental management is the study of sustainable use of resources, minimizing environmental impact, and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. This subject teaches strategies and practices for reducing an organization’s ecological footprint and promoting environmental sustainability.

Business activities of large firms are capabe of causing environmental degradation and destroying the lands of the local inhabitants and affecting their livelihoods.

Firms today are expected to be responsible, else they risk causing harm to their reputation.

Considering these issues, here are some recommendations for firms.

• Firms must adopt eco-friendly practices at their own business.
• Firms should using energy-efficient office equipment, should make use of electric vehicles and solar powered equipment, should developing in-house recycling programs, and give preference to partners that give more importance to sustainability.
• Firms must adhere to Environmental Laws and support environmental initiatives

Environmental Management (Environmental Studies): Questions, Assignments, Projects.

Q. Adani group is involved in mining the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland in Australia to produce and export coal. However, the Carmichael project has turned contentious as the project is causing a lot of environmental damage. Make a report on the environmental issues caused by the Adani Carmichael Coalmine project and suggest measures to manage the issue. Q. Based on the discussion on Godavarman Case in the class, describe why environmental management and preservations of ecosystems are not easy even after having sound legal provisions and mechanisms devised for safeguarding them.

Q. Discuss reasons behind failure of Kyoto Protocol. Discuss why Paris Accord would fail or succeed? From the contemporary geo-political stand point discuss why opting out of USA from Paris Accord is a matter of grave concern or will not affect the climate discourse at all.

Q. Fertilizers are considered as a major source of land pollution and underground water pollution. However, fertilizers played a major role in India’s Green Revolution, uplifting millions of people out of poverty and providing India the much-needed food security and self-reliance. Discuss what should be the way forward for the burgeoning population of India, use of fertilizers and social upliftment?

Q. What is the role of Central/State Pollution Control Board? Discuss why they have not been able to enforce various environmental pollution reduction and control acts effectively?

Q. Why bio-diversity in an ecosystem is important? Why can’t we live in a simpler world
where all you have is humans, farmlands, timberlands, fruit orchards, poultry and dairy
farms, and then rest of the areas can be mined extensively for minerals? [20]

Answers:

• Godavarman Case: Environmental Management / studies
• Kyoto Protocol: Environmental Management / studies
• Fertilizers and social upliftment in India: Environmental Management / studies
• Pollution Control Boards: Environmental Management / Studies
• Importance of bio-diversity in an ecosystem: Environmental Management / studies

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