Lecture 1-Multidisciplinary Nature

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Environmental studies

.and what it is all about


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Reasons to study

Clarifies modern environmental concepts biodiversity

sustainable life style

Equitable resources utilization

To change the way we view

environment.

To create concern for environment.


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Environment

The physical and biotic

habitat that surrounds us


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Environmental Science

The study of the environment, its

living and nonliving components, and

the interactions of these components

The discipline deals with the social,

political, philosophical and ethical

issues concerning man's interactionswith the environment


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Environmental Science

Physics

Ecology

Thermodynamics

AnthropologyChemistry &

Chemical

engineering

The multidisciplinary integration of sciences and engineering in order to utilize the

huge biochemical potential of microorganisms, plants and parts thereof for the

restoration and preservation of the environment and for the sustainable use of resources

Economics

Geology

Biology

Biotechnology

Statistics

Computer

Science

Mathematical

modeling

Demography

Informatics Hydrology


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Why is the importance?

The earth provides enough to satisfyevery persons need but not greed-MG

The Laws of nature have not beenrepealed

Man and his power to alterthe naturescourse have multiplied

We the human race is only one amongstmillions of different kinds of organismsthat share the planet with


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Global village

Common environment

Transcending national boundaries

Growing concerns & Demands


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Rights vs ResponsibilitiesConflict of development strategies with environmental protection

Many technological advances stem from

the scientific study of life and to devise

tools for creating and maintaining human

civilization Tools to create and maintain the quality of

human civilization have become

indispensable

Man being part of nature, it is all the more

important to study the structure and

function of nature


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Economic Growth vs Environment


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Environmental damage

increases as a country

becomes richer


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Richer a nationWeaker the sense of personal responsibilty

Emerging economiesProfess stronger sense of responsibility

Minimising my impact on the environment is an important part of my life


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How is it before all this environmental

deterioration started.?


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Industrial revolution

Green revolution

Mass production

Mass consumption

Mass disposal

Where and how did the problem arise.?


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Below are BUT FEW of the exhaustive list of

environmental issues of today

Population rise

Resource limitations

Pollution

Waste Generation

Loss of Biodiversity Climate Change

Disruption of Ecosystems


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Developing or the Developed.

Who is responsible?


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Environmental Obligations of Global participants


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What made the governments &

policy makers stir from theirslumber..?


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The whistle blowers

1873first syntheticinsecticide

Paul Herman Muller- 1939

1948US / Nobel

1962Publication

1969- impact assesment

1972Ban

2000Stockholmconvention(POPS action

plan)

Crop dustingNational archives
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The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic

Pollutants, the International Program on ChemicalSafety

The dirty dozen: UNEPInsecticides & Pesticides: Aldrin, Chlordane,

DDT, Dieldrin, Endrin, Heptachlor,

Hexachlorobenzene, Mirex

Toxaphene, HexachlorobenzeneIndustrial Chemicals

Polychlorinatedbiphenyls,Dioxins

Furans


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Nine new chemicals have been

added to the listOn 8 May 2009, the Conference of the Parties (COP) added nine morechemicals as persistent organic pollutants.

Pesticides: - 1.chlordecone, 2.lindane, 3.pentachlorobenzene;

4.alpha hexachlorocyclohexane and beta hexachlorocyclohexane,

Industrial chemicals:-5.hexabromobiphenyl ( hexabromodiphenyl ether andheptabromodiphenyl ether), 6.pentachlorobenzene, 7.perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, its salts and 8. perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride,9.tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether; and

By-products: - alpha hexachlorocyclohexane, beta hexachlorocyclohexane andpentachlorobenzene

Endosulfan added to this list.

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William T Love1880

Hooker chemical company

1947-195220,000 metric tons

1952the one dollar deal

Jan 1954

1978 - 82 chemicals / dozencarcinogens

1980Declared disaster zone

President Jimmy Carter issued an orderallowing the paid evacuation of the 900

families living at Love Canal andstarted the process that has becomeknown as Superfund, to clean up otherhazardous sites across the country

1987 - EPA

The whistle blowers

LOIS GIBBSCenter for Health, Environment and Justice


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Awareness in India -Stocklom convention attended by Indira

Gandhi

Need felt for Institutional frame work

Department of Environment was created.

Need felt for legal/Regulatory frame

work

Control & Prevention of pollution Act-1974

(Water Act)

Central Pollution Control Board set up

State pollution control board set up

Air Act


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Post Bhopal Gas tragedy -1984

Department was converted to ministry

1986 - Environment Protection Act (byministry)

Rules were made for: Hazardous waste

Chemical accidents

Emergencies-preparedness and response

Biomedical waste Plastic waste


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Global commitment

In the words of The Norwegian NobelCommittee

We honour the earth; for bringing forth

flowers and foodand trees is committed to

the protection of the earth. This commitment is

our visiondeeply felt and connected to human

rights and peace.

Honouring the IPCC through the grant ofthe Nobel Peace Prize in 2007A Clarion

call for the protection of the earth


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Noble speech.

This choice is, an acknowledgement of 3important realities The power and promise of collective scientific

endeavour,

The role of knowledge in shaping public policy and

guiding global affairs for the sustainable developmentof human society.

An acknowledgement of the threats to stability andhuman security inherent in the impacts of a changingclimate and, therefore, the need for developing an

effective rationale for timely and adequate action toavoid such threats in the future.


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International Environmentalists

Charles Darwin-

Ralph Emerson

Henry Thoreau

John Muir

Aldo Leopold Rachel Carson

EO Wilson


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Organizations working for Environment World Wide Fund (WWF)

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

Wildlife Institute of India (WII)

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
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Indian Environmentalists


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Indian Environmentalists
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Some Indian environmentalists

Salim Ali - Orinthology Indira Gandhi - Played an important role in

preserving wild life

SP Godrej - Padma Bhusan

MS Swaminathan - Agricultural scientist Madhav Gadgil - Ecologist

MC Mehta - Environmentalist Lawyer

Anil Agarwal - Journalist

Medha patekar - Narmada dam Sunderlal Bahugana - Chipko Movement

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