MAN & ENVIRONMENT

RELATIONSHIP
BY
SUKHMAN CHAWLA
Introduction
 Environment means the surrounding condition that
effect the lifestyle of living things.
 Our surrounding includes natural and manmade
things.
 Human life gates effected by the environment and
hence we find differences in the human life of
different regions.
Natural environment
 All component which come into existence naturally are
included in natural environment .
 The landforms on the earth , the climate , soils ,
minerals , sunlight etc are component of our natural
environment.
Cultural environment
In order to enrich his life man had used many
natural resources and in this process he has
brought many changes in natural environment .
Human settlements , roads , buildings , dams etc
have developed through this.
Interaction in environment
 There are many interaction between biotic (living)
and a biotic (non living) components.
 All the biotic component depend on each other.
 Plants produce their food using solar energy. That
means there is an interaction between abiotic and
biotic components.
Impacts of Population growth
 Industrialization
 Burning fossil fuels
 Non renewable resources
 Pollution
 Increased CO2 fuels
Acid rain
 Burning of fossil fuels released
sulphate and nitrate into air .
 Sulphates and nitrates mix with
water vapours in air and form
sulphuric acid and nitric acid
Acidification of lakes

Lakes and ponds

can become so
acidified that no
life can live in
them.
 The net effect of these changes, particularly during the
second half of the twentieth century, was an increase in
exposure to many hazards and increased potential for
catastrophic losses. More than 1.4 million people have
died as a result of natural disasters over the past 50
years, with earthquakes by far the biggest killers.
Hazards can cause major financial problems, as well as
killing many people and damaging such property. In
1998, for example, financial losses from natural
disasters worldwide were greater than US$ 93 billion.
Changes in man and environment
relationship
1. Rapid population explosion:
Puts tremendous pressure on the natural resources and environmental quality.
This is due to the fact that population growth leads to poverty which directly or
indirectly declines the environmental standard.
2. Rational use of non polluted water resources:
The restoration of water quality of our water bodies and their optimum uses
are the challenges before the present society.
3. To sustain and increase agricultural growth:
Without damaging environment. The over cultivation of soil, results in nutrient
deficiency, lack of organic matter, soil salinity and damage to physical
structure of the soil.
4. To check soil erosion:
The soil erosion can be prevented by the restoration of land or soil resources
which are directly or indirectly related to strategies for the management of
land, water and forest.
Changes in man and environment
relationship
5. Restoration of forest resources:
The forest resources are depleting at a very faster rate in order to meet
growing need of timber and farmland for the increased population. Vast forest
areas have been converted into barren waste lands. So it is the need of the
present society to restore our forest resources possibly through social forestry
and afforestation programmes.
6. To check pollution:
The overexploitation of natural resources, intervention of bio-geochemical
cycles and trace element cycle, extraneous release of matter and energy etc.
cause serious environmental hazards.
In addition, continuous green house gas emission, hazardous chemicals of
industry and agriculture, nuclear arsenals; radioactive wastes and
biotechnological misuse lead to global catastrophism. So the prevention of
pollution is of prime importance for the present society. Considering the above
issues, it is clear that the fate of human being depends on how he is managing
and overcoming the above problems.
ways of tackling the problems and
maintaining environmental standard
(a) Taking effective measures for population control.
(b) Optimum use of natural resources.
(c) Conserving and protecting biodiversity.
(d) Creating public awareness about the benefits and implications of
environment.
(e) Giving top priority for environmental protection.
(f) Developing ecofriendly technological processes.
(g) Promoting sustainable agriculture which will not harm the environment.
(h) Using bio-fertiliser or ecofriendly fertilisers.
(i) Using minimum amount of pesticides and insecticides.
(j) Developing waste land by adopting afforestation programmes.
(k) Developing suitable biotechnology to clean up hazardous wastes in the
environment.
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