Master of Technology – Environmental Planning

Date: July 31, 2008

Faculty in-charge:
Rutool Sharma & Ashwani Kumar

Faculty of Planning & Public Policy

Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad
• Environment

• Environmental Planning

• Need for Environmental Planning

DICTIONARY DEFINITION:

•The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant

lives or operates.
Source: Compact Oxford English Dictionary

• An environment is a complex surrounding circumstances,

conditions, or influences in which a thing is situated or is
developed, or in which a person or organism lives, modifying and
determining its life or character.
Source: Wikipedia – Encyclopedia
SCIENTIFIC DEFINITION:

•Environment consists of conditions, influences or forces, by which

living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and
development.

LEGAL DEFINITION:

•Includes water, air and land and inter-relationship which exists among
and between water, air and land, human beings and other living
creatures, plants, micro organisms and property.
Source: The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986; Section 2(a)
Environment is a wide term associated with Individual’s surroundings
number of objects and associated relationships
Locality / neighborhood

Region
Environment cannot be defined in a single
format Globe

“Environment is a variable that ranges between

HABITAT and NATURE”
1. Ecosystems and their constituent parts, including people and communities;

2. natural and physical resources;

3. the qualities and characteristics of locations, places and areas;

4. heritage values of places;

5. the social, economic and cultural aspects of a thing mentioned in 1, 2, or 3

If we re-arrange the components of any geographical area:
based on nature of origin, they can be grouped into 2 broad categories:

Natural Resources & Man made Resources

Basic component Replaces Natural
resources

Where there is man or human activity, there was a natural

component before; but vice versa is not true

That means, it is man who enters an already existing system.

HUMAN INTERVENTION ON ENVIRONMENT

• Allow / Not to be allowed

• Available options

• Extent

• Effects / Impacts

• Impacts Vs. Benefits

• Ways and means to minimize impacts

• Costs attached (environmental, social, economical, cultural etc.)

COURSE DELIVERY
• Environmental PlanningPLAN

• Environmental Science
MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION
S. No. Title of session Session Mode of delivery
(no.)

1. Introduction 1 Discussion

2. Development & Environment 1 Case study

3. Environmental Resources, 1 Lecture

Ecosystem & Biodiversity

4. Sustainable Development 1 Lecture

MODULE 2: ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS & CHALLENGES
S. No. Title of session Session Mode of
(no.) delivery
5. Environmental Pollution 1 Lecture

6. Global Environmental Problems 1 Lecture

7. Urban & local Environmental problems 1 Lecture

8. Rural Environmental problems 1 Lecture

9. Environmental aspects of natural disasters 1 Lecture

MODULE 3: TOOLS & TECHNIQUES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
S. No. Title of session Session Mode of
(no.) delivery
10. Environmental Management at Global level 1 Lecture
(Institutions, Treaties, Protocols)
11. Environmental Management in India 1 Lecture
(Institutional arrangement, laws and
legislations)
12. Technological innovations & use of 1 Lecture
alternative energy

13. Other management systems 1 Lecture

14. Presentation by students 3 Lecture

Thank you