Dr R P SinghAssociate Director Extension,

G B Pant University of Agri. & Tech. Pantnagar

Environmental sustainability we mean meeting current human needs without undermining the capacity of the environment to provide for those needs over the long term.

Problem exists in the environment. Cause created by human and bio physical conditions. If physical conditions are not favorable means the resources has been used injudiously and if favorable means people are uneducated.

SOCIO- BIO-

PHYSICALECONOMIC

ECOSYSTEM

It is true. No one will agree to use resources on eco-friendly basis.

•Change in land cover•Pollution•Invasive alien species•Over appropriation or inappropriate exploitation of natural resources•Climate change

•Sociopolitical factors•Demographic Change•Economic factors•Scientific and technological change•Market failures and distortions

• Get Safe water 1in 5 lakhs.•One billion live in Dry land.•1.2 billion live in Rs 50 per day• Poor families often lack the resources required.• Limited access to credit• Poor people rely extensively on natural resources.

However over extraction of resources disrupt the environment

• Food security is integrally linked to environmental sustainability.• > 2 billion poor people rely directly on agriculture for subsistence .• The ecosystem services are critical for production includes freshwater for crop irrigation, maintenance of soil fertility , provision of crop genetic diversity; crop pollinators, pest control and climate regulation.

These form of environmental degradation decrease food availability, sometimes irreversibly, complicating efforts to fight hunger.

Environmental degradation adversely affects human health through exposure to bacteria, parasites and disease vectors, chemical agents (such as heavy metals, pesticides in water, food, air and soils), and physical and safety hazards (such as fire, radiation and natural disasters)

Many of the diseases, such as malaria, dengue and encephalitis are on the rise because of human disruption of natural ecosystems.

• Fertility is highest in the poorest countries and among the poorest people in poor and middle income societies.• Many developing countries are experiencing significant rural to urban migration. • These demographic shifts have key implications for resource use.• Increased food demand can encourage agricultural intensification & human pressures on ecosystems and environment will grow.

• It drive environmental change in at least six important ways –•Increases consumption and production & intensifies resource exploitation.• changes in land cover, its use and generates waste.• environmentally damaging subsidies•increased international trade and financial flows shift consumption• exogenous shift in consumer preferences

• Environmental sustainability requires dramatic changes in the ways societies and citizens manage their biodiversity, wastes and byproducts of production and consumption process, and consumption patterns.• Also requires addressing the direct and indirect drivers, the underlying causes of environmental problems.

R P Singh

Associate Director Extension

Flexibility

Team work

Communication chain

Patience

CommitmentLeadership

Planning

Whatever the obstacle an Ant faces it has the

flexibility to go around it, under it or over it…

Flexibility makes an Ant comfortable in

ALL SITUATIONSALL SITUATIONS

When it is Summer, it plans for the winter,

stocking-in whatever it requires for the cold winter

Planning makes an Ant prepare for

Future ChallengesFuture Challenges

An Ant waits patiently for the summer

during the chill winter

Patience makes an Ant relaxed in

Testing ConditionsTesting Conditions

At any given point of time, it does all that is

possible; however small it is

Commitment makes an Ant a winnerwinner, whatever the

WorkloadWorkload

Ants operate in a TEAM

TTogether EEmpowering to AAchieve MMore

United they build an ant-hill,

A masterwork of Engineering,

where even the cooling effect is taken care of…

Ants are great Leaders

but

Ants also have the humility to follow the Leader

Humility is Strength, not Weakness

Ants, while moving in a chain, have perfect

co-ordination to send feedback to

the following ants This is Perfect

Networking,

thus the entire Team is in the LOOP

Flexibility

Team work

Communication chain

Patience

CommitmentLeadership

Planning

Don't Succumb to pressure.Remember that

PressurePressure is what turns

a lump of coal into a DIAMOND

If Ants can do

Why can’t we

Train, recruit and retain environment experts Secure sufficient funding for environmental institutions.Reform government institutions and improve interagency

coordinationImprove governance and gender equality.Account for the cost of environmental degradation in national

accounts.Introduce payment systems for ecosystem services and tax

reform.Phase out environment damaging subsidies.Improve national and international regulatory framework.Establish mechanisms for science and technology advices.Train decision makers for environmental management.Provide public access to information.Improve extension, training and services.Science and technology must be at the center of any strategy for

environmental sustainability.

Universities and other institutions of higher learning should apply themselves directly to sustainability goals.

• Increase use of sustainable agriculture techniques to preserve natural assets. • Increase real income of informal forest sector of atleast 200 percent by 2020. • Protection and restoration of ecologically viable representative areas of all major forest, shrub land and pasture vegetation types and their biodiversity.• Slowing fresh water degradation requires reducing demand, especially in cropping systems; controlling pollution; and protecting aquatic environments.• Action should be taken to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals and child mortality caused by indoor air pollution and water born diseases.

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