Sustainable Development Management

Abstract

Because many natural resources are limited and the environmental quality of many areas is poor, environmental management is still very necessary.

Classroom Discussion and Assignments

3.1.1 Issues for Discussion

In the Chap. 2, the groups discussed and analyzed the status of environmental problems of interest. This discussion will examine the objectives of environmental management for the next 30 years from the perspective of environmental management based on the results of the previous assignment, thus providing a basis for understanding the various approaches to sustainable development strategies in subsequent chapters. Therefore, the topics discussed in this chapter are as follows:

Based on the environmental issues selected in the previous chapter, we develop environmental management plans for the next 30 years for a particular area.

Considering that students may choose from several types of environmental problems, such as resources, environmental pollution, and ecological damage, the following are proposed recommendations from the themes in this chapter:

• Resource management planning;

• Ecological management planning; and

• Environmental management planning.

3.1.2 Example of the Process of Screening Issues

Based on the results of the screening of the previous environmental issues combined with the requirements of the previous chapter on the selected topics, the selected topics should be limited as much as possible, such as the study of soil remediation planning or atmospheric environment planning in a specific area.

Using the study of atmospheric environmental planning as an example, the screening process is shown in Fig. 3.7.

Fig. 3.7

Screening process for the discussion topic and the analytical framework of the analytical process

3.1.3 Possible Research Programs and Content

First, select a typical location, such as Beijing, based on the air quality report.

Current research includes environmental capacity, pollution status, excess multiple, source of pollution, emission intensity, and other research. Based on the human health atmosphere environmental standards, the environmental capacity is allowed to have a PM2.5 environmental capacity at the case site. Compare the actual concentration and the environmental capacity. The environmental capacity can determine the multiple of the PM2.5 pollutants in the status quo. The current status of the pollution can be obtained through environmental monitoring, including existing public monitoring methods, such as the Environmental Protection Agency or the Meteorological Bureau or researcher distribution, personal monitoring, and other means to obtain the pollutant concentration data. Pollutant sources and emission intensity can be obtained by means of on-site exploration, pollution sources classification and analysis and measurement.

The plan is used to establish as a goal the number of years required to correct the haze, i.e., reduce the haze to levels below the environmental capacity within 30 years.

Planning phase analysis can be divided into a planning period of every 5 or 10 years, analyzing the environmental performance at various stages, including the changing relationship of the environmental load, ecological efficiency, and social service and the influencing factors of these indicators, as well as the changing relationship of the influencing factors required to achieve the goal.

The guarantees that are needed by planning, management, and recommendations and by analyzing the overall objectives include laws, regulations, and policies and improvements in technology and facilities, the ecological environment and social and economic changes.

Important sources of information related to environmental quality are recommended below.

http://www.zhb.gov.cn/

China Environmental Protection Department: water quality, atmospheric environmental quality, soil environment, ecological environment and other information, http://www.zhb.gov.cn/.

IAQ http://www.cma.gov.cn/

China Meteorological Administration: including precipitation, air pollution weather conditions (such as the IAQ index, air pollution diffusion conditions) and other information, http://www.cma.gov.cn/.

http://data.mlr.gov.cn/

China Ministry of Land and Resources: containing mineral resources, land resources, marine resources and other bulletin information, http//data.mlr.gov.cn/.

http://www.sac.gov.in.

China National Standardization Management Committee can check the national standards, international, and other national standards (including other various professional standards established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Health and Family Planning Commission, http://www.sac.gov.in).

3.1.4 Requirement of Staged Scientific Research

This stage requires students to learn to focus on discussion topics and to establish a logical relationship between topics and research programs and their content and to understand why the study can be conducted. What would you plan to study? How would you perform these studies? What are your initial thoughts concerning the type of expected results and conclusions? Focus should be on the validity of the data used in the study and the rationality of the findings of the study. The results of the study are presented in the form of PowerPoint reports, which should be concise and presented within 10–12 min. Before mid-semester, emphasis is placed on developing logical thinking and clearly expressing ideas. After mid-semester, emphasis is placed on the comprehensive use of knowledge points, innovative thinking and the normalization of expression.