Sustainable Development: Environmental Management Report

This report provides an overview of environmental management principles and practices for achieving sustainable development, with a focus on the Australian context. It covers topics discussed in lectures, including environmental rules and regulations, federalism and environmental politics, and the role of NGOs and green political parties. Specific examples, such as the Franklin River Battle case study, the 2012 Summer Olympic Management's green initiatives, and Sydney's efforts to become a sustainable city, are examined. The report also highlights the importance of economic tools, knowledge-based tools, and command & control tools in regulating environmental policies, as well as the roles and responsibilities of various governmental and non-governmental organizations in promoting environmental sustainability. The student's personal insights and reflections on the lecture content are integrated throughout the report.

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Running Head: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Table of Contents
Lecture of the 3rd week...................................................................................................................3
Lecture of 4th week.........................................................................................................................3
Lecture on 5th week.........................................................................................................................4
Lecture of the 6th week...................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Lecture of the 3rd week
In the 3rd week, the lecturer session’s discussion topic was Environmental Rules and
Regulations of Australia (Byrnes et al. 2016). I got to know about the different sustainability
policies which mainly include economic tools, knowledge-based tool, and command & control
tool. As a student these issues were quite important for me and after paying much attention I felt
all these tools are quite necessary for regulating the policies but primarily the economic tool
would be the most required source as without sufficient finance no policy can be implemented
effectively. There were parts in the lecture where the various sources of finance were discussed
and I think it as very essential. Apart from it knowledge based tool was another important aspect
for me because the people who would be teaching others the necessity of maintaining these
policies should themselves have proper knowledge about it. The fact which interested me the
most was when I knew that there was a debate that had happened between NGOs -
environmentalist and government regarding this environmental rules and regulations (Arguedas
& Rousseau 2015). In this session I also asked the lecturer about these policies and I also
provided my opinion towards it. Opinion towards the policies has made be able to understand
where to focus while solving any problem. The lectured had appreciated my views and
encouraged me to continue the discussion further, Most of my points got matched so I was
satisfied in that session. I got to know that the Government had declared standards which
includes; emission and ambient (Smit et al. 2017). Therefore, all the benefits and problems
regarding these standards were discussed in this lecturer session.
Lecture of 4th week
The lecture of the 4th week helped me to understand the concept of "Federalism" and
environmental politics. I was very enthusiastic as a totally different topic like the background of
the Franklin River Battle case study was highlighted (Thomson, 2017). The lecturer had also
mentioned that the importance of case study regarding lake Pedder. This personality took me
aback because I was watching news on him some days ago and I got to know that Lake Pedder
was the cornerstone of the green movement (Drew, 2015). The role and responsibilities of High
Court, Constitutions and Federal Government was highlighted too and I was focussed during this
particular time as I am a student of environmental management and the relevant legal policies are

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quite important for me to know. Along with these lectures the other thing which interested me
was some rare photographs of different situation or personnel shown in the session.
The major thing which left me puzzled in the video session was that the 2012 summer Olympic
Management had committed to creating greenest games ever. I had many queries about this
portion which the lecturer clarified eventually. Moreover, I got to know that 2012 Olympic will
address some serious issues like; carbon emission and sustainability (Ashton, 2016). There is a
law named, Clean Air Act which helps local people of U.S to survive death from severe air
pollution (Isen, Rossin-Slater & Walker, 2017). Another appealing aspect in the lecture for me
was when I came to know that the Kennecott mine was violating the U.S emission standards for
five years (Albert & Arrowsmith, 2017). I clarified my doubts about Kennecott mine’s news and
lastly I was clear on the rules and regulations for environmental management in Australia.
Lecture on 5th week
In this lecturer session, I get to know that Lord Mayor of Sydney, had made a commitment to
make Sydney an environmentally, economically, socially, culturally and sustainable city.
Moreover, I got to know that Sydney had successfully reduced emission by 25%. Sydney city
had adopted many environmentally friendly policies in the sector of water harvesting, receding
building, energy efficiency programmes (Eberbach, 2017). I also became very excited to know
that the government of Australia actually monitor these programmes and see to its extent of
effective implementation. Sydney Airport is also working with these governmental communities
so that local government could manage the aircraft noise pollutions in aviation industry. I came
to know that Sydney was trying to promote the use of LED lights and other energy efficiency
measures which would help to reduce emission more effectively (Laslett et al. 2017). Since the
coastal areas are mostly populated throughout the entire year, it becomes quite difficult for New
South Wales government to inspect it always. Hence they have appointed the local governmental
bodies to look after this situation and this is the major thing which surprised me the most. These
strategies would be biodiversity conservation strategy and defence environmental strategy.
Biodiversity conservation strategy means to productively manage their biological resources so
that they can maintain sustenance in environment. As for me this would be a major help on the
protection of environment because wit increased amount of pollution each day, these resources

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get hampered the most. On the other hand, they would also get much help from the Australian
Government in their defence environmental project plan.
Lecture of the 6th week
The lecture of the 6th week has helped me to comprehend the environmental movement part 2,
included NGOs to Green Political Parties (McDonald, Jonson & Dixon, 2016). This was the
most informative lecture among all these lecturer sessions, as in this lecture I got to gain lots of
knowledge regarding various environmental problems. The most distinctive feature of this
lecture session was the movements that were being mentioned by the lecturer, it was from
ancient ages to the 20th century and it interested me greatly. There was a presentation of the
historical context of environmental movement, which was exhibited through a projector. The
concept of FoE(Friends of the Earth) movement, was something very new as it had occurred in
the year 1969 (Tranter, 2014). Another lecture was delivered regarding the Greenpeace campaign
which had occurred in the year 1971 ( Ollis & Hamel-Green,2015). I got to know that there were
there four different campaigns that had occurred during this period and their names were
Mururoa Atoll, Whale Campaign. Seal culling campaign and Waste Campaign. At the end of this
lecture session, Australian Conservation Foundation was accurately discussed (Wells, 2015).
From this lecturer session, I have also gained knowledge regarding Western Plains Landscape
Guardian. The features of WPLG, the pressure from a political party, the lock gate alliance
movement were all discussed in this lecturer session. Local grass root activism and global green
charter were also discussed and this was interesting as I already had known about it before so it
got matched with the lecturer’s views. These were the major points in entire session upon which
I had focussed the most and constructed my report.

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