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Course Code: URP 3131 Course Title: Environmental Management and Planning AN ASSIGNMENT ON “CONCEPT, TYPES AND IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT” DATE OF SUBMISSION: 17th March 2014 SUBMITTED BY: 110434 Environmental Management Concept Environment is a fundamental and most essential part of our...

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Course Code: URP 3131 Course Title: Environmental Management and Planning

AN ASSIGNMENT ON “CONCEPT, TYPES AND IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT”

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 17th March 2014

SUBMITTED BY: 110434

Environmental Management Concept Environment is a fundamental and most essential part of our day to day life. Environmental management offers us a better livelihood by ensuring proper management in different sector of our life. Environment comprises various types of forces such as physical, intellectual, economic, political, cultural, social, moral and emotional. Environment is the sum total of all these external forces, influences and conditions, which affect the life, nature, behaviour and the growth, development and maturation of living organisms. In another word, Environment refers to the sum total of condition, which surround point in space and time. And environmental management is an attempt to control human impact on and interaction with the environment in order to preserve natural resources. It focuses on the improvement of human welfare for present and future generations. Environmental management system is simply a collection of activities undertaken to ensure that environmental issues are managed. It provides the following functions – •

Consistently complying with environmental laws;

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Improving overall environmental performance;

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Addressing environmental liability from current or past practices;

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Maximizing investment in environmental affairs;

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Integration of environmental objectives into overall mission and business objectives;

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Providing an environmentally safe workplace.

Basically an Environmental Management Framework is Plan, Do, Check and Act with a continuous cycle.

Environmental Management

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Types of Environmental Management There are three broad categories of environmental management in the lifecycle: (i)

The construction environmental management plan

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The operations environmental management plan and

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The decommissioning environmental management plan.

These can be shown as follows-

Environmental Management Construction EM

Operation EM

Decommisioning

The Construction Phase Environmental Management Plan The construction phase EMP provides specific environmental guidance for the implementation and construction phase of a project. It is intended to enable the management and mitigation of construction activities so that environmental impacts are avoided or reduced. These impacts range from those incurred during start up (e.g. site clearing, erection of the construction camp) to construction activities (i.e. erosion, pollution of watercourses, noise, dust). Information presented in the EMP is typically categorised as follows: -

Identify the specific activity or potential impact that requires management;

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Determine the mitigation measures to be implemented;

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Identify the performance indicator;

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Identify who would be responsible for implementation and

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Identify who would be responsible for monitoring.

The Operational Phase Environmental Management Plan The operational phase EMP provides specific guidance related to the operational activities associated with a particular development. The roles and responsibilities for mitigation,

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monitoring and performance assessment for the operational life of the development are specified in the environmental management plan.

The Decommissioning Phase Environmental Management Plan Decommissioning may present positive environmental opportunities associated with the return of the land for alternative use and the cessation of impacts associated with operational activities. However, depending on the nature of the operational activity, the need to manage risks and potential residual impacts may remain well after operations have ceased. Examples of potential residual impacts and risks include contamination of soil and groundwater, stock that has been abandoned (e.g. oil drums, scrap equipment, old chemicals) and old structures. The decommissioning phase of EMP provides specific guidance with respect to the management of the environmental risks associated with the decommissioning stage of a project. The decommissioning phase EMPs are typically encountered within extractive industries such as minerals mining and oil and gas exploration and extraction.

Importance of Environmental Management Environmental management promotes physical, social and economic environment of the enterprise or project. It encourages planned investment at the start of the production chain rather than forced investment in cleaning up at the end. The importance of environmental management are as follows – -

To clarify modern environmental concept like how to conserve biodiversity;

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To know the more sustainable way of living;

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To use natural resources more efficiently;

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To know the behavior of organism under natural conditions;

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To know the interrelationship between organisms in populations and communities;

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To aware and educate people regarding environmental issues and problems at local, national and international levels.

Environmental management is vital to conform socio-economic development project to environmental safety and thereby ensure sustainable economic development. Its impact on the environment is also ever increasing, leading to rapid deterioration in environmental conditions. It helps the planning and management to take long term measures for effective management as well as environment conservation.

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References (i)

http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/778

(ii)

DEAT (2004) Environmental Management Plans, Integrated Environmental Management, Information Series 12, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT), Pretoria.

(iii)

Wathern, P. (1988)” An introductory guide to EIA”, pp 1- 29 in Wathern, P., [ed.], Environmental Impact Assessment. Theory and Practice. London:Unwin Hyman.

(iv)

Tibor, T., Feldman, I., 1996. ISO 14000. A Guide to the New Environmental Management Standards. Irwin, Chicago.

(v)

IFAC

(International

Federation

of

Accountants),

1998.

Environmental

Management in Organizations. The Role of Management Accounting. Study #6. Financial and Management Accounting Committee, International Federation of Accountants, New York. March.

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