Environmental Ethics and Values
Ethics plays an important role in our society today, and environmental ethics and business ethics must be considered. This has become more prevalent in today’s society. The term “Ethics” itself means the “Combination of Philosophy with Technique”. Definition Environmental ethics is a branch of ethics…
Environmental Impact Assessment, Monitoring and related terms
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment discusses technical developments and data arising from environmental monitoring and assessment, principles in the design of monitoring systems, and the use of monitoring data in assessing the consequences of natural resource management and pollution risks. Monitoring systems estimate exposure both at…
A quick guide to Soil Reclamation
The soil is one of the abundantly available renewable resources on earth. However, increasing population and various human activities like industrialization, urbanization, mining, etc. are slowly rendering the fertile usable soil unfit for use. Damage and deterioration of soil include: Loss of fertility Lack of…
The Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act – 1974
History India participated in the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972 to take appropriate steps for the preservation of the natural resources of the earth which, among other things, include the preservation of the quality of air and…
Different types of Audits
This article is to provide a quick guide to understand the various types of audits involved in the development of a particular project. All these audits are sub-types of Environmental Auditing that together provide a systematic data necessary for the proper planning, management, mitigation of…
A quick guide to Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a contraction of “Biological diversity”, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in…
Air Pollution – Asthma for Mother Nature!
If Mother Nature was to be a living walking human, then Air pollution would be nothing less than a disease or an Asthma attack for her. Today the quality of air around us is so bad, that even the most seemingly clean and hygienic surroundings…
Important terms and concepts relating Carbon emissions
Carbon is the backbone element of nature or simply the building blocks of anything living or dead. It is present in the environment in multiple forms, some good, some moderate and some harmful. Understanding the whereabouts of carbon in the environment is important. You may…
Understanding Environmental Auditing
An Environmental audit is a general term that can reflect various types of evaluations intended to identify environmental compliance and management system implementation gaps, along with related corrective actions. In this way, they perform an analogous (similar) function to financial audits. There are generally two…
Bioremediation using Fungi – Mycoremediation
Treatment of wastes, effluents and contaminated media in Environment and other scientific fields is a fast-growing field of technology today. The prime reason behind this is the rising levels of pollution and environmental degradation. Scientists have developed numerous physical, chemical, biological and biogeochemical methods for…