Aspect and approaches to environmental management

On an average environmental management involves (1) judicious and gainful utilization of natural resources for socio-economic development and (2) Maintenance of environmental quality by perusing ecological principle. Broader objectives of environmental management include (i) to restrict and regulate the exploitation and utilization of natural resources, mainly non-renewable natural resources; (ii) to regenerate degraded environment and to renew natural resources (iii) to control environmental degradation and pollution (iv) to reduce the impacts of extreme events and natural disaster (v) to make optimum utilization of natural resources by recycling and reusing waste materials produced from one activity to another economically and environmentally viable activity (vi) to review and revise the existing technologies of production in terms of their adverse effects on the environment (vii) to formulate laws and regulations for the implementation of environment protection and conservation programs to maintain the environment quality.

Environmental planning and management should include the whole biological world because environment belongs to man and all living organism which except man do not know any artificial boundary whether regional, national, or international. But the same strategy for environmental planning and management may not be applicable to all the regions and all of the ecosystems because human interests differ in different regions and ecosystems.