Lecture 5 - Environmental Management

CGEO 702 TECHNOLOGY & CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSEMENT DR ABEDNEGO ARYEE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY RYERSON UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES Romanticism Conservation Preservation Environmental ethics Ecofeminism Deep ecology Cosmovision ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES CONTINUED Traditional Ecological Knowledge Anthropocentrism Biocentrism Ecocentrism ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY International Laws and Policies Environmental Protection Act Voluntary Guidelines Non-governmental Organizations - Sierra Club - Greenpeace Different environmental media - riparian zone - prior appropriation ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, ACTORS & MEDIATION Citizen actions - Civil disobedience - Rachel Carson - Club of Rome Mediation - Litigation is costly and time consuming - Mediation is an alternative to litigation ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Environmental Impact Assessment Legislations Canadian environmental impact assessment act ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING Environmental audits are generally voluntary The voluntary nature of environmental auditing is its Achilles heel (weak point) Environmental auditing can take place at establishment or corporate level