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Multidisciplinary Nature of Environmental Studies

Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary field that draws from various areas of science like chemistry, physics, life sciences, and agriculture. It deals with issues that affect organisms and seeks practical solutions to ensure human civilization can exist sustainably given Earth's limited resources. The environment consists of interacting physical, biological, and cultural elements. Physical elements include landforms and climate. Biological elements include plants, animals, and microorganisms. Cultural elements are manmade features like economic and social systems. Environmental studies aims to develop awareness of environmental protection and conservation issues and train people to find solutions to growing environmental problems.

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Multidisciplinary Nature of Environmental Studies

Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary field that draws from various areas of science like chemistry, physics, life sciences, and agriculture. It deals with issues that affect organisms and seeks practical solutions to ensure human civilization can exist sustainably given Earth's limited resources. The environment consists of interacting physical, biological, and cultural elements. Physical elements include landforms and climate. Biological elements include plants, animals, and microorganisms. Cultural elements are manmade features like economic and social systems. Environmental studies aims to develop awareness of environmental protection and conservation issues and train people to find solutions to growing environmental problems.

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

– Environmental studies is multi-disciplinary because it comprises various branches of


studies like chemistry, physics, medical science, life science, agriculture and public health.
It is the science of physical phenomena in the environment.
– Environmental studies deals with every issue that affects an organism.
– It is an applied science as its seeks practical answers to making human civilization
sustainable on the earth’s finite resources.

The environment is constituted by the interacting systems of physical, biological and cultural
elements inter-related in various ways, individually as well as collectively. These elements are
(1) Physical Elements
– Space, landforms, water bodies, climate, soils, rocks and minerals. They determine the
variable character of the human habitat, its opportunities as well as limitations

(2) Biological Elements


– Plants, animals, microorganisms and human beings constitute the biosphere.

(3) Cultural Elements


– Economic, social and political elements are essentially manmade features, which
constitute the cultures and societies.

Scope and importance


– Environment Studies enlighten us about the importance of protection and conservation of
our environment.
– At present, a great number of environment issues have grown in size and complexity day
by day, threatening the survival of mankind on earth.
– We live in landscapes that have been heavily modified by human beings, in villages, towns
or cities.
– But even those of us who live in cities get our food supply from surrounding villages and
these in turn are dependent on natural landscapes such as forests, grasslands, rivers,
seashores, for resources such as water for agriculture, fuel wood, fodder, and fish.
– Thus, our daily lives are linked with our surroundings and inevitably affects them.
– We breathe air, we use resources from which food is made and we depend on the
community of living plants and animals which form a web of life, of which we are also a
part.
– Everything around us forms our environment and our lives depend on sustaining its vital
–
systems.

The scope of environmental studies include:


1. Developing an awareness and sensitivity to the environment and its related problems. 2.
Motivating people for active participation in environmental protection.
3. Developing skills to find solutions to environmental problems.
4. inculcate in others the necessity for conservation of natural resources.

Socio Environmental Jurisprudence

– It is environmental laws that regulate the environmental protection bodies and make them
effective.
– despite having been aware of the menace of the environmental degradation and its
gravity, people are less intended to be sensitive towards the problem owing to three-
pronged reasons:
– First, they perceive environmental protection as the sole responsibility of state;
– second, sizeable of them have no spare time out of their livelihood engagements; and
– third, lack of leadership or community action at local level for the cause.
– The environmental jurisprudence in India has inadequately addressed the issue of people’s
say and environmentally hostile people’s attitude towards environmental protection in the
process.
– In the Constitution of India it is clearly stated that it is the duty of the state to ‘protect and
improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country’.
– It imposes a duty on every citizen ‘to protect and improve the natural environment
including forests, lakes, rivers, and wildlife.'
– Time and again the Indian Laws have taken a turn and tried adapting to the dynamics of
the need.
– However there transition phase has always been miserable. There’s a lot done, but the fact
cannot be denied that a lot is yet to be done.

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