Enviornmental management

THERE HAS BEEN significant advances in the last decade in our understanding of the integrated relationship between Environment and development. The concept has been advan ced that environment should be viewed as a stock of physical and social resources available at a given time for the satisfac tion of human needs, and development as a process pursued by all societies with the aim of increasing human welfare.
Environmental Management is not yet a full-fledged discipline in formal curriculum of studies. In developing countries, it is viewed as being irrelevant and counter-produc tive. This concept is changing fast. The developing countries has realized the importance of the Environmenal Management Policies.

The Six Five Year Plan (1980-85), Framework Document of Govt. of India, in the Section on Ecology and Environ ment include "It is imperative that we carefully husband our renewable resources of soil, water, plant and animal life to sustain our economic development. Over-exploitation of these is reflected in soil erosin, siltation, floods, and rapid destruc tion of our forest, floral and wildlife resources. The depletion of these resources often tends to be irreversible and since the bulk of our population depends on these natural resources to meet their basic needs, particularly of fuel, fodder and housing material, it has meant a deterioration in their quality of life".
The Enviromental Management Policies advocate for the better results from development projects if they are environ mentally sound. In the last five years, environmental experts have been involved increasingly in project planning, and consideration of the environmental cultural, and social impacts and suitability have become gradually incorporated in plann ing process.