Introduction
The Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) is a concept that was encouraged and proposed in the 1980’s, in South Africa. IEM was later widely accepted with the release of IEM guideline series in 1992. The IEM concept has three crucial words, “integrated”, “Environment” and “Management” their meanings are described for a better understanding of IEM as a whole term. The term integration has four different components to it, as explained by DEAT (2004), they are:
1. The integration of all environmental concerns.
2. The integration of knowledge from different experts.
3. The integration of tools during decision making.
The environment is described as the surrounds in which all organisms exist. It is a very broad term and consists of the biophysical, social and economic sections, as well as the fractions that lie within the overlapping areas. See figure 1 for a graphical representation.
Management refers to the whole process of managing a project, activity or development. It consists of the initiation, planning, control, implementation and closing of an activity. It also includes the responsibility and accountability of each phase of the activity or development.
IEM is considered to be a philosophy and a set of principles. The philosophy and principles are supported by tools that aim at guiding South Africa and developers towards sustainable development. IEM is not necessarily a process, but rather a “way of thinking” used to support other processes, such as EIA and SEA, or integrated into other processes, such as Integrated Development Planning. The various tools form a framework for environmental decision making. The main objective of the IEM is to support sustainable development, meaning that the framew...
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... opportunities to engage with all stakeholders of the project or development. The stakeholders who would benefit most from this are the youth, woman and the disadvantaged. Engaging with the different stakeholders would enable them to contribute, especially to informed decision making.
18. Sustainability
The principle of sustainability is an important principle. Resources should be used be used in such a way that the renewal and replenishment of the resource is done in a manner that the resource declines in a long-term manner. This ensures that the needs of present and future generations are met and the resources are not under limiting pressures.
19. Transparency
Decisions regarding a development or project must be done in a transparent or open-minded manner. All decisions must however be compliant with the various laws of South Africa.
Challenges of IEM
Management is the pursuit of achieving organizational goals and ideals with the work of people with similar ideals. Using this combined effort to plan, organize, lead and use the organizations resources to achieve their goals. Management is also the process of assessing and hiring new employees, while also making sure to keep all the employees in tip top shape. With selective training sessions and motivational tools, management can help the employees to be the best employee they can be. They are also in charge of keeping important records on all the resources the company uses, such as how much stock they buy that year, or the deprecation on the machines or building; and then plan next years goals around what they find. While also being a large part of human resources department that helps employees if they have a problem or need to talk to someone.
Ecosystem - is a system that models relationships and interactions between the various biotic and abiotic components making up a community or organisms and their surrounding physical environment.
The environment is defined as all living organisms and all non-living matter and energy. The biotic environment makes up living things and the abiotic environment makes up the non-living environment. The clouds, oceans, ice caps, animals, plants, forests, and the landscape that surrounds us is the environment (Withgott, & Laposata, 2012).
According to whatishumanresource.com,” Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals
Management is the procedure of organizing, motivating, controlling, planning and directing resources in order to achieve the objectives of the company. Management was used even before individuals knew what management was. To prove this, management was used in the making of the Taj Mahal in Agra,India. How? To make the Taj Mahal, Emperor Shah Jahan had to organise, motivate, control, direct and plan his resources accordingly to build the magnificent Taj Mahal. Organising, he organised his workers in different departments from making the bricks to the interior design. Motivating, Shah Jahan motivated his workers to do his work by letting them live. Controlling, he controlled his worker to do what he wants and how he wants
An Environmental Management Plan is a specific plan developed to implement the correct practices and procedures are followed during the construction and operation of the development. It involves the application of the identified methods for controlling environmental concerns. The EMP ensures the development complies with any conditions and legislation requirements outlined in the Environmental Impact Assessment. The plan ensures risks involved in construction and development are correctly managed.
The development of environmental regimes involves a five-fold process. The first process is the agenda setting and issue definition stage, which identifies and brings attention to an issue to the international community. Secon...
Legislation aimed at protecting New Zealand’s environment and natural resources has been through countless reforms to better tailor it to the various discourses that surround environmental management. In Simin Davoudi’s (2012) reading “Climate Risk and Security: New Meanings of “the Environment” in the English Planning System”, Davoudi discusses that environment can be seen in various different ways, as local amenity, heritage ,landscape ,nature reserve, as a store house of resources, as a tradable commodity, as a problem, as sustainability and as a risk (Davoudi, 2012). Although, Davoudi’s typology relates to aspects of New Zealand’s environmental management paradigms, it fails to include some important aspects such as indigenous and community inclusion. Davoudi’s (2012) typology can provide for future guidance in the discourse surrounding environment as risk.
What is MANAGEMENT? Management is the process of dealing with people in which it involves the achievement of goals and objectives by using the available resources economically and effectively.
Management is a task of organising people and work .It is an interdisciplinary and international field that has evolved in bits and pieces over the year. Organisations are required to complete a given task according to schedule and pre-determined programme. The work and the labour has to be divided to complete the task effectively and efficiently. The people are made to
Environmental management awareness rose up for last decades until today. So in managing and avoiding environmental degradation happen continuously, the are several policy and regulation formed from time to time. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) And Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is two of environmental protection that being implemented. Most country have the same policy but in own standard of control. These policy primary goal is to ensure the implementation and enforcement
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Environmental sustainability is making decisions and taking actions in the interest of protecting the natural world, preserving the capability of the environment to support human life and ensuring that humans use the environment in a way that does not harm the environment. It also questions how economic development affects our environment vice versa.
Management can be simply defined as ¡§getting things accomplished through other people¡¨. Management is then the term describe the work done by the manager, which are planning, organizing, leading and controlling the use of human and other resources, in order to help the organization to achieve a higher organization performance. Planning is to define to goals or targets of the organization and devising action plans to meet organization goals. Organizing is to determine what tasks should be done, arrange jobs to subordinates, controlling the budgeting and divided tasks to individuals or teams. Leading is to motivate staffs to work, maintaining the progress of activities and good relationship and to ensure to work done effective and efficient. Controlling is to measure work performance, assess whether goals have been met, compare the set targets, and make corrections when it is needed
Environmental analysis is a strategic tool. It is a process to identify all the external and internal elements, which can affect the organization’s performance. The analysis entails assessing the level of threat or opportunity the factors might present. These evaluations are later translated into the decision-making process. The analysis helps align strategies with the firm’s environment. The importance of Environmental Analysis lies in its usefulness for evaluating the present strategy, setting strategic objectives and formulating strategies.