Environmental Education- a leap towards Environmental

Management

The human impact on natural environment and everlasting loss of the

bio wealth has posed serious threat to the very existence of mankind.
Rapid rate of industrialization and urbanization and above all population
growth have put great pressure on land use, water and vegetation
resulting into degradation of environment through rapacious exploitation
of natural resources, excessive pollution, deforestation, desertification,
soil erosion, waste disposal, ozone layer depletion etc.
The suicidal activities of man will endanger the life of the
mankind and the entire earth. Therefore, environmental management is
a growing urgency for conservation of resources and maintenance of the
quality of the environment. Following are the main aspects of
environmental management.
✔ Perception and awareness of environment.
✔ Environmental education
✔ Resource Management & assessment
✔ Environmental Impact Assessment.
✔ Control over environmental degradation and pollution.
Being the most important aspect of Environmental management-
Environmental education concentrates mainly on various aspects of
environment and ecology. Environmental education is necessary
because it will provide complete knowledge of environment and finally
produce environment al oriented citizen. Environmental education leads
to “UNDESD” which stands for United Nations Decade of Education for
Sustainable Development. The seed germinated in the world Summit on
Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in September 2002 and on
20th December’2002, the UN General Assembly earmarked the ten year
period from 2005-2014 as the UNDESD with UNESCO as the lea agency
to promote the decade. Education for sustainable Development is a
dynamic Concept that utilizes all aspects of public awareness, education
and training to enhance an understanding of the linkages among the
issues of a sustainable development.
Monitoring of the Environmental pollution and its associated aspects
are essential for environmental Management. Monitoring simply refers
to the checking of environment and pollution which requires trained
personal. Moreover, environmental Mapping can provide a lot of
information through Remote Sensing & GIS techniques.
 Environmental Impact Assessment is a system that examines the
environmental consequences to development actions. Environmental
Impact Assessment is an aid to decision making, to the formulation of
development action and an instrument for sustainable development.
In fact nature has everything to meet our needs and not to satisfy our
greed. Failure to consider this aspect has resulted in the threat to
environment as a whole. Therefore, awareness of people, environmental
education, management and conservation has now become a priority.
Though human being is a major component of ecosystem, it cannot
overlook the importance of natural resources at different levels. The web
of life is so intricate that disturbance of one part of ecological
community affect the smooth functioning of its components.
By observing the growing urgency, and serious consequences it
becomes very essential to pursue a further research in the subject,
because nature has always provided the inspirational, aesthetic and
educational need of human being and finally it give us the cultural
identity.

Dhiraj Kumar Neog

Reetuparna Barthakur