What is Environmental
Engineering Science?
O We are concerned with the quality and
availability of environmental resources and
with the waste streams that impact them.
O Science…improve our understanding of
natural processes
O Engineering…use this understanding to
develop and apply technologies that will
maintain or improve environmental quality
What is an Engineer?
O Problem solver.
Specifically, one who uses science to solve real
world problems.
O What about an Environmental Engineer?.
Solves environmental problems using scientific
tools.
Although it is impossible to eliminate
negative impacts, human effects can be
diminished and brought under control
through…..
O Public education
O Conservation
O Regulation
O The application of good engineering practice
What is Environmental
Engineering?
O Environmental Engineering is the integration
of science and engineering principles to
improve the natural environment, to provide
healthy water, air, and land for human
habitation and for other organisms, and to
remediate pollution sites.
Environment: the total of our
surroundings
Factors Affecting the
Environment
1. Increasing number of humans on earth
(population growth)
2. The rising standard of living (advances in
agriculture, urbanization, industrialization)
Man exerts a tremendous impact
on the environment through…..
O Extraction of resources
O Modification and manipulation of the
environment
O Pollution resulting from deposition of
wastes
Ecological Impact on
Environment
O On the productivity of the ecosystem (green plants,
atmospheric oxygen)
O On other organism (microorganism, insects, animals)
O On climate (global warming, ozone hole, acid rain)
Health Impact
O Due to
microbiological
pollution
O Due to
micro-chemical
pollution
What is Environmental Science?
O The study of nature and the facts about
environment.
Our environment is everything that surrounds us,
both natural and man-made.
What is Environment?
O defined as “all the social, economical,
physical & chemical factors that
surrounds man” (or)
O “all abiotic and biotic components around
man-all living and non-living things surrounds
man”.
Scope of Environment Science?
O Studying the interrelationship between the
components of environment
O Carrying out impact analysis and
environmental Audit
O Preventing pollution from existing and new
industries
O Stopping the use of biological and nuclear
weapons
O Managing unpredictable disasters etc.
Natural Resources: Vital to
Human Survival
Environmental Science: How
does the Natural world work?
What is an Environmental
Problem?
What are the challenges we face?
Top 10 Environmental issues
1. Population
2. Climate Change
3. Loss of Biodiversity
4. The Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycles
5. Water
6. Ocean Acidification
7. Pollution
8. Ozone Depletion
9. Over Fishing
10. Deforestation
http://planetearthherald.com/top-10-environmental-issues/
We face challenges in agriculture
We face challenges
in Pollution
Pollution doesn’t have boundaries
This dust plume
passed over urban
areas in China, Korea
and Japan, cruised
over the Pacific Ocean
and eventually made
its way to Alaska.
3 April 2002
Engr. Yvonne Ligaya F. Musico 20
We face challenges
in Climate
We face challenges
in Biodiversity
Our energy choices will affect our
future
Sustainable solutions exist
Sustainability:
a goal for the future
Will we develop in a sustainable
way?
Are things getting better or worse?
Conclusion
O Environmental science helps us understand our
relationship with the environment and informs
our attempts to solve and prevent problems.
O Solving environmental problems can move us
towards health, longevity, peace and
prosperity.
O Environmental science can help us find
balanced solutions to environmental problems
Questions:
O 1. Define Environment. Give example of different type
of Environmental component.
O 2. What is Environmental Engineering? What are the
fields of environmental Engineering?
O 3. What is Environmental Resource? Give example of
different type of resource.
O 4. What is Environmental Problem? Describe different
type of environmental problems.
O 5. What do you understand by Sustainability? Why is
Sustainability important for environment?
O 6. “Environment is getting worse day by day” Do you
agree with this statement? Justify your answer.
