2023 _ Environmental Education

  Unit 5 - Environmental Management  Guided By:  Dr. Arunadevi Kurane Presented by: Gitanjali Rath Introduction: Environmental Management: An Environmental Management System  is a set of processes and practices that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency. Operating efficiently means using resources like time, people, equipment, inventory and money in an optimized way to serve the business a) Economics and environmental Quality: Environmental and Economic indicators Environmental indicators Environmental indicators are measures that tell us what is happening in the environment.  Environmental indicators provide a more practical and economical way to track the state of the environment. These includes: 1. loss of biological diversity 2. Agricultural output and declining forest area 3. Freshwater withdrawals and freshwater growing scarcity 4. Electricity production 5. Greenhouse gas emissions Economic indica...

Environmental sustainability definition Environmental sustainability is the ability to maintain an ecological balance in our planet's natural environment and conserve natural resources to support the wellbeing of current and future generations. The foundations of environmental sustainability are: safeguarding water, saving energy, reducing waste, using recyclable packaging, limiting or eliminating the use of plastics, using sustainable transport, reusing paper and protecting flora and fauna.  “Family Farming is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family labour, both women's and men's. Advantages of family farming Crop rotations and multiple-cropping systems help keep pests below the 'economic injury level'. Family farms conserve biodiversity and rule out eradication of species and make plants resilient to pests. ...

 An ecosystem is  a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life .  The four ecosystem types are classifications known as  artificial, terrestrial, lentic and lotic . Ecosystems are parts of biomes, which are climatic systems of life and organisms. In the biome's ecosystems, there are living and nonliving environmental factors known as biotic and abioti                                 Ecosystem    An ecosystem is a community of interacting organisms and their environment. Living things interact with each other and also with non-living things like soil, water and air. Ecosystems often contain many living things and can be as small as your backyard or as large as the ocean.                                Ecosys...

                                                            Foundation of Environment: Environmental Education is  a process that allows individuals to explore environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the environment . As a result, individuals develop a deeper understanding of environmental issues and have the skills to make informed and responsible decisions.                E nvironment  Education helps students understand how their decisions and actions  affect the environment, builds knowledge and skills necessary to address complex environmental issues, as well as ways we can take action to keep our environment healthy and sustainable for the future.                At the elementary school level, environment...