Environmental Management for Sustainable Development: Analysis

This report provides an overview of environmental management for sustainable development, focusing on the Australian context. It outlines the role of an environmental consultant, detailing their responsibilities in analyzing environmental issues, conducting impact assessments, and developing management strategies. The report highlights the consultant's contributions to addressing climate change, including assessing risks, developing adaptation strategies, and promoting sustainable practices in fishing and forestry. It emphasizes the importance of sustainable fishing methods such as hook and line, harpooning, and traps, while also considering the use of electric fuel meters and other sustainable practices to reduce carbon emissions. The report concludes that environmental consultants play a crucial role in mitigating environmental changes and ensuring sustainability for future generations, considering the drastic changes encountered in Australia over the years.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................2
2. My profession...........................................................................................................................2
3. Contribution to addressing climate change..............................................................................5
4. Contribution to sustainability...................................................................................................7
5. Conclusion................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction
Increased global warming and other environmental issues have led to increased demand
for jobs in the environmental sector. Considering the higher rate of technological development,
the surrounding environment is hampered and compromised largely. Australia is currently facing
higher environmental issues that need to be mitigated for the benefit of the surrounding
environment and ensuring sustainability (Tranter, 2013). As a result, increased number of
environmental consultant jobs are seen in Australia, so that the current developments are made
after taking expert advice from the consultants thereby, taking care of both the environment and
promoting urbanization. Over the years, the overall climatic condition of Australia has changed
drastically that needs to be mitigated for the future generations to survive. The contribution of
the environmental consultant provided an opportunity to address the climatic changes along with
the contribution in ensuring sustainability in Australia. The job profile of the environmental
consultant is developed in such a way that the recent environmental issues are identified and
mitigated for the betterment of the place.
This report describes the job profile of an environmental consultant in detail by
highlighting the roles and responsibilities of the designated post. In addition to, the report also
sheds light on the contribution of the environmental consultant in addressing climate change as
well as a contribution to sustainability.
2. My profession
The main motto of the environmental consultant is to analyze and advice on policies
while developing designs along with including the government and commercial

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environmental operations and programs. The profession of environmental consultant works
on contractual basis for both public and private sectors and addresses environmental issues
such as water pollution, soil contamination and air quality (Dai, 2013).
The profession of environmental consultant requires analyzing the surrounding natural
habitat, addressing the fisheries and wildlife needs. These roles and responsibilities allow the
environmental consultant to formulate both short term and long term management objectives
and goals. Identifying and analyzing the surrounding environment is an integral part of the
profession of an environmental consultant, as this allows ensuring the protection of the
surrounding environment along with facilitating urbanization and development. The
environmental consultant is able to perform the above mentioned task due to scientific
knowledge and technical expertise ("1220.0 - ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand
Standard Classification of Occupations, First Edition, Revision 1", 2018).
Apart from the aforementioned responsibility, the profession of environmental consultant
highlights the strict enforcement of laws and regulations in order to protect the wildlife and
fish. The marine life is highly troubled and disturbed due to prevalent ignorance that is seen
while development and urbanization of the surrounding environment. Enforcement of
environmental laws and regulations ensures that the surrounding environment is protected
and conserved in spite of facilitating urbanization and development. In addition to, enforcing
the government laws and policies saves the private and the public firms from penalties and
fines in future for non-compliance with the government regulations.
Another significant role of the environmental consultant is to conduct environmental
impact assessments for the wide range of developmental projects. Environmental Impact

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Assessment is one of the crucial roles for the environmental consultant, as this provides an
opportunity to analyze the probable positive and negative environmental impacts of a
proposed project by considering the social, economic, cultural and human-health impact.
After addressing the negative impact of the proposed project, the role of the environmental
consultant is to propose solutions for mitigating the negative environmental impact of the
project (Trenberth, et al., 2014).
The profession of an environmental consultant also demands to study the impact of
various factors such as altitude, climatic change, environmental change, terrain along with
various sources of nutrition and predators. The studying of the aforementioned factors is
done in order to determine the impact of it on the plant, animal and human life. As an
environmental consultant, it is also important to study and evaluate the reason of pollution,
change in the atmospheric conditions along with studying the evaluating the ecology,
demographic characteristics, minerals, water and soil samples (Murphy & Morrison, 2014).
The profession of environmental consultant also includes developing management and
conservation policies the the different biological resources such as the existing forest and the
population of the fish in the marine ecosystem thereby, developing standards with the
approach for controlling the pollution and facilitating rehabilitating the areas that has been
disturbed due to activities such as overgrazing, mining and timber felling. The environmental
consultants also organize activities in accordance with the government policies in parks and
areas that need conservations and protection of both cultural and natural heritage (Short,
Baker, Carter, Jones, & Jay, 2013).

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Lastly, the environmental consultant profession also demands active participation in
management planning by considering the available information related to the environment
thereby, making inventories of flora and fauna along with items of cultural and heritage
significance (Ciambrone, 2018).
3. Contribution to addressing climate change
Over the past years, the environment in Australia has encountered drastic changes. The
environmental changes have been encountered in terms of rising temperatures, change in the
pattern of rainfalls, ocean acidification and rise of sea level. Thus, the environmental change
has affected the water resources, health, agriculture, biodiversity, fishes, infrastructure and
coasts. The role and contribution of the environmental consultant are crucial in addressing
the climatic changes. This is because the environmental consultants have the knowledge and
expertise to address the climatic changes and find ways to mitigate it along with promoting
development and urbanization ("The science of climate change | Australian Academy of
Science", 2018).
The environmental consultants implement their inter-disciplinary social science and
environmental expertise and skills both in private and public sector and assess the clients by
developing and applying adaptation and mitigation initiatives in terms of climatic change.
The entire world is working together to combat with the adverse environmental effects, the
environmental consultants work simultaneously with the clients and provide adequate
support for designing and applying methods that help in mitigating adverse environmental
impact due to the ongoing projects and programs. The environmental consultants emphasize

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on developing practical, attainable and cost effective solutions for mitigating the
environmental consequences ("Fifth Assessment Report - Synthesis Report", 2018).
The environmental consultants' design and conduct assessment for Reduced
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). The conduction of this
assessment helps the environmental consultants to address the climatic change and find
and develop solutions of mitigating it. The forest is highly affected due to increased
competition of development and urbanizations. People are focusing more development
without considering the harmful effect it is causing to the surrounding environment. Lack
of trees and greenery is hampering the environment in terms of lack of oxygen as well as
hampering the biodiversity, as loss of species is highly noticed (Ghimire & Pimbert,
2013).
The environmental consultants work with the clients’ hand-in-hand in order to
address and assess the risks and impacts of the climatic changes on resources such as
projects, people and communities. The environmental consultants work across various
sectors such as agriculture, forestry and infrastructure by taking help of indigenous
people, government bodies and local communities in order to develop adaptation
strategies that support climate resilient decision making. The environmental consultants’
addresses climatic change by undertaking coastal zone management initiatives and
determining the carbon stock assessment for the entire forest range. The coastal zone
management initiatives and carbon stock assessment helps the environmental consultants
to address climatic change by mapping historical change of the place over the years
(Christoff, 2013).

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The environmental consultants can also address climatic change by developing
scenarios that facilitate the use of particular land in the future by using advanced spatial
modeling. The use of advanced spatial analysis and modeling allows the environmental
consultants to link the geometric data with the thematic data thereby, determining the use
of the particular land and environmental scenario in the future. Other methods that are
used by the environmental consultants for addressing the climatic change are conducting
hydrological modeling assessment, downscaling and evaluating the change of climate for
particular regions over the years by improving the accuracy of predicting the climate and
weather data through the implementation of enhanced hydrology and climate monitoring
(Cook, Smerdon, Seager, & Coats, 2014).
4. Contribution to sustainability
Considering the role of an environmental consultant, the contribution in terms of
sustainability was in the field of ensuring sustainable fishing and developing sustainable
forestry. The commercial fishing industry can engage in fish farming as well as other
marine organisms of both fresh and salt water. The fishes are highly affected by the
higher level of carbon dioxide in the water. Thus, carbon conscious fishing is one of the
methods of contributing sustainability for fishing 1. ("Sustainable Development Goals .:.
Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform", 2018). It has been seen that the
fishermen use boats for fishing that emits carbon dioxide thereby, harming and
threatening the existence of different fish fishes. As an environmental consultant, the
advice for reducing the emission of carbon dioxide is replacing the propeller with
stainless steel. This helped in reducing the drag. In addition to, installing an electric fuel

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meter also helps in monitoring the consumption of the fuel thereby, finding the energy
efficient method of the fishing boat.
Another method of ensuring sustainable fishing practice as an environmental
consultant is the implementation of hook and lining method that is, pole catching. The
use of this method requires the use of a fishing pole that has several hooks in a single
line. As a result, the fishermen are able to release by catch quickly soon after the fishes
have been caught. It is a more sustainable approach than dredging because mesh bags
used in dredging scoops other types of marine life that are not required but are uprooted
due to the process thereby, harming the marine ecosystem (Martens, 2013).
As an environmental consultant, another method of ensuring sustainable fishing is
by using harpooning. In this case, the fishermen use hand thrown harpoons fired from
guns in order to catch larger fishes with minimal by catch. This is a sustainable fishing
practice, as this method does not harm the rest of the flora and fauna in the marine
ecosystem. The harpoons fired from guns targets the fishes directs and pierces the body
leaving the surrounding flora and fauna. In addition to, the use of handmade harpoons
does not uproot the surrounding flora and fauna thereby, leaving them undisturbed and
untouched. Manufacturing lead free harpoons is another way to ensure sustainable fishing
(Williams & Schaefer, 2013).
The advice of using traps for fishing is another contribution towards sustainability
as an environmental consultant. The use of traps provides an opportunity for the
fishermen to guide the fishes in to boxes or reef nets that are placed near the surface of
the water. As a result, the fishes tip over the box or the reef nets. In addition to, the wire

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mesh traps can also be used sustainably provided they are not dragged along the floor of
the ocean. Methods such as trolling, long lining and purse seining are advisable as an
environmental consultant that can be used for ensuring sustainable fishing (Lewis, Walls,
& Dowell, 2014).
5. Conclusion
Thus, in this report, it can be concluded that the drastic environmental changes are
a matter of concern around the world including Australia. Over the years, the Australian
environment and climatic condition have changed drastically. The environmental changes
have been encountered in terms of rising temperatures, change in the pattern of rainfalls,
ocean acidification and rise of sea level. Thus, the environmental change has affected the
water resources, health, agriculture, biodiversity, fishes, infrastructure and coasts. The
role and contribution of the environmental consultant are crucial in addressing the
climatic changes. This is because the environmental consultants have the knowledge and
expertise to address the climatic changes and find ways to mitigate it along with
promoting development and urbanization.
The job profile for an environmental consultant in Australia has increased in
order to combat with the extensive climatic changes. The contribution of the
environmental consultants in addressing the climatic changes and contribution to
sustainability is impeccable, as they possess required knowledge and expertise in
mitigating the issues by conserving the surrounding along with facilitating development
and urbanizations. The profession of an environmental consultant also demands to study
the impact of various factors such as altitude, climatic change, environmental change,

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terrain along with various sources of nutrition and predators. The studying of the
aforementioned factors is done in order to determine the impact of it on the plant, animal
and human life.

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