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Environment and Sustainable Development

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Environment and Sustainable Development

The document discusses the relationship between environment and sustainable development, highlighting the definition of environment, its functions, and the reasons for the environmental crisis, including population explosion and pollution. It addresses issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, land degradation, deforestation, and biodiversity loss, along with strategies for achieving sustainable development. The document emphasizes the importance of using renewable resources, controlling pollution, and adopting sustainable practices for future generations.

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Environment

and Sustainable
Development
Ch 9 | Class - XII | Indian Economic
Development
By Mayank Dua
ENVIRONMENT
AND SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
MEANING OF
ENVIRONMENT?
Environment is defined
as the total planetary
inheritance and the
totality of all resources
FUNCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Provides
Environment
resources for
sustains life
production Environment It provides
assimilates aesthetic
waste services
Reasons for
Environmental Crisis

Population

01
Explosion and
Advent of industrial
revolution
Extensive

02
Extraction of
Renewable and
Non-renewable
resources
Reasons for
Environmental Crisis

Extinction
03 of many
Resources
Affluent

04 Consumption
and Production
Standards
Reasons for
Environmental Crisis

Air and Water

05
Pollution due to
Development
Process
Global Warming

06 and Ozone
Depletion
REVERSAL OF SUPPLY-DEMAND
RELATIONSHIP : REASON FOR
ENVIRONMENT DEGRADATION
Global
Warming
Global Warming is the
observed and projected
increase in the average
temperature of earth’s
atmosphere and oceans.
CAUSES OF
GLOBAL
WARMING?
Main effects
of Global
Warming?
Ozone
Depletion
Ozone depletion refers to
destruction of ozone in the
ozone layer due to presence
of chlorine from manmade
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
and other forces.
Causes of
Ozone
Depletion
MAIN EFFECTS OF
OZONE DEPLETION
MONTREAL
PROTOCOL
STATE OF INDIA’S
ENVIRONMENT
Land
Degradation
Land degradation refers to a
decline in the overall quality
of soil, water or vegetation
condition, commonly caused
by human activities.
Causes of Land Degradation

1 2 3 4
Loss of vegetation Enroachment into Non-adoption of Improper crop
due to deforestation forest lands adequate soil rotation
conservation measures

5 6 7
Unsustainable fuel wood Indiscriminate use Shifting Cultivation
and fodder extraction of agro-chemical
Causes Extraction of
groundn water
of Land
Overgrazing in excess of
Degradation the recharge
capacity

Improper
Poverty of the
planning and
agriculture
management
dependent
of irrigation
people systems
Deforestation
Deforestation involves the
permanent destruction of
indigenous forests and
woodlands
Soil Erosion
Soil erosion takes place
when the surface soil is
washed away through
excessive rains and floods
Biodiversity
Loss
Biodiversity is defined as the
variability among living organisms
from all sources, including
terrestial, marine and other
aquatic ecosystems and the
ecological complexes of which
they are a part
Air Pollution
Air pollution is the presence
of materials in air in such
concentrations, which are
harmful to man and the
environment.
SOME WAYS TO
CONTROL AIR
POLLUTION
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Sustainable development is the
development, which allow all
future generations to have a
potential average quality of life,
that is, at least as high, which is
being enjoyed by the current
generation.
Restrict use of
WAYS TO renewable resources

Substitute non-renewable
ACHIEVE with renewable resources

Becomes Input
SUSTAINABLE Efficient

DEVELOPMENT Control the growth


of population

Control Pollution
Strateggies for Sustainable Development

1 2 3 4
Use of Non-conventional Use of Establishment of Control of
Sources of Energy Cleaner Fuels Mini-Hydel Plants Biopest

5 6 7
Traditional Knowledge Uses of Bio-compost Change in Unsustainable
and Practices Patterns of Consumption and
Production

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