CH 1 ENVIRONMENT

Man-made environment is the environment created by humans. It includes permanent human settlements like villages, towns, cities, and transport and communication facilities, besides various other communities.

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.

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When the consumption of natural resources is equal to natures ability to replenish then sustainability is Environment.

Economic sustainability is an integrated part of sustainability and means that we must use, safeguard and sustain resources (human and material) to create long-term sustainable values by optimal use, recovery and recycling.

Sustainable industrial development ensures that resources are used conservatively and efficiently. To achieve resource productivity, manufacturers must optimize the supply circle, analyzing how raw materials are extracted, how components are produced, how products are designed and how return markets are organized.

Explanation: Implicit in this definition is the recognition of rights of future generation – the right to achieve a sustainable level of development and the right to be able to utilise natural resources. Arguably, no generation should inherit less human and natural wealth than the one that preceded it.

Ordinarily speaking, it is a situation in which economic development does not decrease over time, Sustainable development is the development that is everlasting. Sustainable development is a process in which natural resource base is not allowed to deteriorate.

It means that development should take place without damaging the environment, and development in the present should not compromise with the needs of the future generations. This concept stresses the role of the environment as capital that, if exhausted, cannot be replaced.

Based on the components, the environment may also be classified into (1) aquatic environment (marine, such as oceans and seas, and freshwaters, such as lakes and rivers), (2) terrestrial environment (land), and (3) atmospheric environment (air).