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Environmental Management 1st Edition Thomas - Solutions
Make a list of the diff erent laws being enacted and implemented in the country to prevent climate change.
Compare the roles and responsibilities of the executive structure and the legal structure in conserving the biodiversity.
Learn from the Biodiversity Board or biodiversity committees constituted in your area about their current activities and plans.
Identify the diff erent laws governing the environment that are available for implementation in your local area and assess the eff ectiveness of the implementation of each one.
Discuss the legal issues in co-operation between the countries and states in managing the water resources, mountain resources and maritime resources.
What are the imperatives of regional cooperation in managing the environment? What legal issues come up in the way of regional cooperation?
Identify the environmental or green taxes, if any, a business fi rm has to pay in the country as per the existing tax laws. What are the constraints for a tax shift to more of green taxes?
Assess the implementation hurdles of the “principle of common but diff erential responsibility”especially in the background of Kyoto Protocol and subsequent climate change debates.
What would be the impact if “the polluter pays principle” of environmental law is strictly implemented in the country?
What are the reasons for “judge-driven implementation” of environmental laws in India?
In your opinion, is legal framework or social organization framework (religious, cultural norms) more eff ective in conserving the environment? Substantiate your position.
Distinguish between statutes, regulation, standards and guidelines as components of the legal framework.
Identify the principles of 1972 Stockholm UN Conference and 1992 Earth Summit that are not yet followed up or acted upon in the country.
Craft a strategy to assure participation of all stakeholders in the campaign, including the different types of communication methods to be used and their timing, risk assessment, etc.
Make a list of partners who would support the campaign and those who might oppose its progress.
Prepare a monitoring format to measure progress of achievement of the objectives of the campaign.
Identify a major environmental problem in your state or district and make a campaign plan to bring the attention of everyone to the issues
Identify 10 plants or animals/birds in the country which have religious or cultural values and analyze the status of their conservation.
Th rough web search, study the environmental report of three fi rms in three diff erent sectors(e.g., steel, IT, automobile).
Visit a supermarket and identify 10 products in diff erent categories which are environment friendly and eco-labeled. Assess their total life cycle costs and compare the total cost advantages with the conventional products of each category.
Make a critical assessment of the environmental campaign you have read about or participated in your state or region.
Identify an environmental risk communication from any industrial fi rm in any media (TV, newspaper, internet) and assess its eff ectiveness.
Make an assessment of the green products available in the supermarket or retail stores in your town/city and classify the products. Analyze how the product saves the planet.
In your opinion, is green consumerism or corporate environmental initiative as part of the corporate strategy more eff ective in saving the planet?
What do you understand by the bequest value of biodiversity?
Prepare a list of motivation of green initiatives by the business fi rms.
What are the diff erent methods of communication available to a business fi rm to disclose its environmental performance and initiatives?
Make a list of the business opportunities in the environmental domain in your city or area in which there is scope to generate profi ts.
In your assessment, what are the compelling reasons for a business fi rm to communicate its environmental impact to the general public?
Visit a fi sh landing center or at least a fi sh market and calculate the average trophic level of the available fi sh. Th en study through web search what is the average trophic level of fi shing in the state/region.
Identify 10 environment-friendly products, their brand names and learn why each of these products are labeled environment friendly.
Th rough web search write the methods of permaculture and social forestry.
Read the book Silent Spring or Population Bomb and write one page precise on the most important chapter of either book.
Compare and contrast farm forestry, social forestry, industrial forestry and community forestry.
Discuss whether a mountain zone or a pelagic zone is more environmentally fragile.
Identify the salient features of environmental stewardship.
Whether poverty is a cause or product of unsustainable development? Substantiate your answer.
Describe the implementation issues of sustainable development?
What is the potential for water wars between countries? How water wars and river water disputes can be prevented?
Why and how sustainable development makes living bearable and describe how other types of development makes living unbearable.
Whether a mass consumption society is sustainable, if they continue to consume environment-friendly products only? Substantiate your answer.
Read about a recent fl ood situation in a city or a country and identify the proximate and distant causes of that fl ood.
Describe the stock water resource in your neighborhood and make observation on how this resource is replenished. Identify whether replenishment or extraction from this resource is more.
Conduct a water audit of your home and make a list of steps which can be taken at home to enhance effi ciency of water use.
Identify the industries that are dependent on marine resources and their total contribution to GDP of your country?
When there is plenty of water in the oceans and seas and technology is available for desalination, why there is still water scarcity?
Why business fi rms located in a coastal zone should be interested in maintaining the mangroves?
What steps should be taken by a company which manufactures and markets dried milk powder to become water positive, starting from the milk production farm stage till the end consumer stage?
What is the relevance of conservation of a coastal zone for a company in the travel and tourism industry?
Elucidate the diff erent methods of replenishing the water sources of a factory which manufactures soft drinks.
Review the literature on industrial waste management and prepare a report on managerial and technological innovations of industrial waste management during the last 10 years.?
Make a classifi cation of the categories of e-waste in your town; identify the most important e-waste and what the authorities are doing to manage it to prevent health hazards.
Identify the diff erent colors of waste baskets used by a hospital in your town and how they dispose the contents of each bag
How the attitudinal barriers to waste reduction can be addressed by a fi rm and its management policy?
Which of the e-wastes is most hazardous and suggest measures to reduce the hazardous nature of e-wastes?
What are the strategic benefi ts of EPR policy of waste buy back by a manufacturing fi rm or a supplier?
How re-education and rethinking helps in better waste management in a business organization?
Identify the diff erence between the principles of reuse and recycling of wastes?
What are the reasons for waste management becoming an issue for everyone in the society?
Identify the steps in formulating an environmental policy for a major multispecialty hospital in your town and develop an implementation plan of this policy by adopting the principles of good environmental management.
Conduct an EA of an educational institution, aft er preparing an audit protocol. Present the draft audit report to the head of the institution or its management committee.
Th rough web search, identify and write the environmental policies of two IT fi rms, two manufacturing fi rms, two food processing plants and two educational institutions.
Suggest the stages of implementing an EMS in a chili powder manufacturing company located in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Identify fi ve ecological handprints a retail mall can adopt to reduce its ecological footprints?
What are the diff erent types of mitigation measures which a vehicle manufacturing plant should adopt to minimize environmental impact?
Write three examples of environmental aspects where adaptive management is essential and what happens if the steps of adaptive management are not practiced.
Compare and contrast IEM and PEM.
What are the benefi ts of getting a LEED certifi cation for the head offi ce building of a company?
What is the purpose of conducting environment impact assessment by business fi rms?
Prepare a state of the environment report (SER) for the town or city you live by taking into consideration all aspects of the environment like economic, political, social, historical, cultural and physical components.
Identify the most important environmental issue of your town or neighborhood. Make a web search and fi nd out technical solutions to this environmental issue. Th en assess why these technical solutions are not implemented from the political, economic and social perspectives.
Identify the mechanism through which restraint is put on overexploitation of a common resource system in an urban area.
Make a diagrammatic representation of the appropriators and providers of a resource system(air, wood lot, park, lake, groundwater) in an urban area (the city or town in which you live or nearest to your home).
Identify and make a list of the common goods present in your city or town, such as a park, lake, avenue, etc.
How are PRA tools diff erent from the other planning and implementation tools used in management, such as SWOT (Strength, Weakness Opportunities, Th reats) analysis, scenario planning, gap analysis, PESTEL (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Ecological, Legal)framework, Delfi technique,
What are the characteristic features of participatory management? How is it diff erent from the other types of management?
What is environmental ethics? How is it applicable to business fi rms?
What factors would motivate business fi rms to adopt technological solutions to reduce their environmental impact?
Why should a business fi rm be concerned about the local environmental problems?
Make a plan to use 50 per cent of the energy need at home from renewable energy (from biogas plant, solar, wind, biomass, micro hydel, etc.) and make a long-term cost–benefi t analysis.(Will you include the external environmental costs of generating 1 kWh of electricity from thermal/hydel/nuclear
Calculate the total savings including the electricity subsidies, if any.
Make a plan for month-wise reduction in electricity use by using the methods of end-use energy effi ciency and then re-educate everyone at home. Th en, execute the plan and check with the electricity meter about the results and how much money is saved.
Understand from the state’s Electricity Board what is the actual cost of generation and distribution of electricity per kilowatt-hour for the state and whether there are subsidies. What is the subsidy per kilowatt-hour to agriculture and domestic users?
Calculate the total electricity consumption in kilowatt-hour per month for your home, monthwise for the whole calendar year, considering the variation in electricity use during rainy days, cold months and summer months.
Identify the electrical appliances used in your home and note the power consumption per month of each appliance like TV, computer, refrigerator, pump sets, grinder, mixer, lights, fans, etc.
Identify the illness, diseases and health eff ects on residents/people caused by pollution in your area.
Make an analysis of the population increase of your town, city or village or panchayat from the offi cial records by asking the Information Offi cer of the municipality or panchayat or city administration for the data on decadal growth for the last fi ve decades, through the Right to Information
Make a poster suggesting the measures to prevent/control the most important pollutant in your neighborhood in a poster paper and paste in the community notice board.
List the pollutants found in your housing neighborhood and their sources.
What are the measures you can adopt to increase the end-use energy effi ciency at your home?
Suggest the policy initiative needed to accelerate the industrial growth in your state without degrading the environment.
If there is no electricity supply to your neighborhood from next year, what are the feasible alternate sources of energy that the residents can plan and install? What are the reasons for poor adoption of alternate sources of energy?
What are the components in calculating the ecological footprint of a country? Calculate the ecological footprint of your country and compare with three neighboring countries?
Suggest the measures to reduce wastes in your town and to make it a zero waste locality?
What are the sources of odor pollution in your environment? What remedial measures do you suggest to contain this type of pollution?
Compare the ecological effi ciency of the living of a vegetarian and non-vegetarian person, considering the concept of food chain, 10 per cent law of ecological pyramid, amount of water and energy needed for biomass creation at each trophic level.
Make a diagrammatic representation of the food web in which you are a part by eating fruits, vegetables, cereals, pulses (may be meat), drinking milk, or consuming other processed food products like chocolate, ice creams, potato chips, cakes, pastries, pickles, sauce, etc. Draw the autotroph level
Make an assessment of the carrying capacity of your neighborhood.
Make a list of the reservoirs and pathways of nitrogen in your city or town.
Draw the diagram of a factory building in your region and mark the components of its environment.
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