Sustainable Development and Environment Management - Regional Development

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: A, Atlantic International University (BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS), course: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Development aspects, language: English, abstract: Man is dependent on the physical environment for his survival. He has however
failed to tame it controllably. Man's desire to satisfy his needs have led to
increased human use of the environment. Human negligence in addition to
collective actions for economic gains has put the environment at a disadvantage.
Many of the natural ecosystems have been interfered with. This has been through
encroachment on forest reserves, degradation of wetlands, uncontrollable
expansion of agricultural land leading to soil erosion and soil exhaustion,
overgrazing and burning of grasslands leading to bear soils that are susceptible to
erosion agents. A sustainable situation occurs when man's ability to use natural
resources can be replenished naturally. Man's activity has outstretched the ability of
these resources to replenish naturally. The interactions of man's current processes
with the environment have strained it. The man's disturbance affects the
interdependence of the atmosphere, that is, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere and
the biosphere which leads to environmental degradation. It has caused negative
impact in several ways such as such as global warming, acidification, fossil and
resource depletion, photo chemical oxidation, human toxicology, and fresh water
aquatic pollution.
1.2 Purpose of the study.
- To aid the people to be aware of the objectives of the principles and
perspectives of sustainable development and environmental management.
- To be able to identify the linkages between environment, society and
development.
- To develop environmental planning skills.
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