Business Communication: Environmental Issues Report for Nepal

This report provides a comprehensive overview of environmental issues in Nepal, highlighting the country's rich natural resources and the challenges posed by environmental degradation. It addresses key issues such as deforestation, population growth and migration, and the resulting imbalances in the ecosystem. The report delves into the impacts of deforestation on soil erosion, water quality problems, and the situation of energy. Furthermore, it discusses the effects of urbanization and pollution. The report concludes by outlining action plans and remedial solutions, including education and awareness programs, limitations on urbanization, poverty mitigation strategies, and the implementation of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA). The report emphasizes the need for immediate actions to promote sustainable economic development in Nepal and minimize environmental problems.

Business
Communication
Environmental issues in Nepal

Historical
lessons
 World has pondered several environmental issues for
over a century and generated a deep amount of
knowledge base.
 Nepal has very limited and fragmented knowledge
about the issues related to environment and changes
in climate.

Introduction
 Nepal is a very small country but is very rich in terms of Natural
Resources. All the natural resources are treated as a gift of the
nature. Few of the necessary natural resources is Nepal are Forest,
water, soil and land.
 Nepal is a landlocked nation located between India and China
which great diversity features (Shrestha and Aryal,2011).

Environmen
tal
Degradation

Imbalance
in the
ecosystem
 Undiminished use for the growth and growth for
hydro-electricity and irrigation, building of road,
cultivation and agro based industries, cable and
urbanization have created the tremendous imbalance
in the entire eco system.
 All the natural resources found there are slowly facing
towards overexploitation.

Population
Growth and
Migration
 The population of Nepal is increasing by 2.6% per
year which has caused a terrible and tremendous
pressure and stress on the land and other areas as
well.
 Apart form this, the people living in Nepal are moving
from mountain region to Terai region which has
become a serious issue on environment (Raut, Sitaula
and Bajracharya, 2010).

Deforestatio
n and its
end results
 Deforestation generates serious issues of soil erosion
majorly found on the hills, mountains and steep
terrains.
 The speedy run-off transmit valuable Nepalese top
soil which is further exported to India as well as
Bangladesh without compensation.
 The huge number of livestock in the country is
reducing from time to time.

Drinking
water and
Sanitation
 Only, 11% of the entire inhabitants obtains piped
drinking water which has been claimed according to
the National Planning Commission.
 Drinking water contains coliform bacteria specially
Escherichia coli.
 As a remedy, the government has motivated
community afforestation agendas such as soil
protection, flood regulator, and cropland loss
protection schemes.

Situation of
Energy
 Wood consist of 87% of the entire fuel obligation for
the people living in Nepal.
 Environmental studies must proceed the construction
of dam phase in order to evaluate the potentials of
such effects and improve them as far as required.
 Increasing human encroachment for the cultivation
and settlement has led to the causes of deforestation
majorly in the Chitwan Valley.

Urban
developmen
t and
pollution
 The urban inhabitants of Nepal is growing at a very high speed rate
of 4 to 5% per annum over the last decade.
 Urban surroundings are below heaviness that come from air, noise,
solid waste, sewage and industrial effluent pollution (Uddin et al.,
2015).

Action plans
 Education and awareness programs against the
environment degradation and the growing population
because it is one of the major factor for the
degradation of environment.
 Limitation of illegal, unrestrained and unorganized
urbanization and settlement development process.

Remedial
solutions
 Involvement towards poverty mitigation by increasing
the generation of income.
 Growth and development of combined settlements
for rural and relegated regions and threatened
clusters to keep a balance on the regional distribution
of population and control land deprivation.
 Internalization of the Environmental Impact
Assessment i.e. EIA system must be majorly used for
the development plans and programs (Pandit and
Bevilacqua, 2011).