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Environmental Movement As a ConceptRole of Environmentalists to Overcome
Issues of EnvironmentAreas Covered by Environmental MovementHistory of Environmental MovementEarly Awareness & Conservation Movement
(Principles)History of Conservation MovementHistory of Environmental Movement in the USDebates within the movementEnvironmentalism and Politics
Amending
Public Policies Environment
Resources
Warden of the EnvironmentFetching Change in Individual’s
Behaviour
Environmentalists ponder on
Contineuable Organization
Development of FactoriesImmense dispersal of Coal
Smoke in the Air
Contamination of Chemicals in rivers and
Canal gave rise to Water pollution
Laid the foundation of Environmental Movement
Industrial Revolution
Conservative Movement has three principles
Guarantee empirical scientific formulas
Applied Duty was carried out
A soul societal duty
Maintain the environment Prospect generations
Damage in the environment
Result Human activities
History Department Author Country
Conservation
Movement
Patent in
Forests
India
Numerous
medico-
topographical
reports on
deforestation
and Wrought
Forest
Department
Sir James Renal
MartinIndia
First case of
Forest
management
Adapted
principles of
conservation
Madras Board
of Revenue in
1842.
Alexander
Gibson
(Botany)
India
History Department Author Country
The first
permanent forest
conservation
program of the
world
Forest
Department
Governor General Lord Dalhousie in
1855
India, World,
USA
Department
banned shifting
cultivation in 1860
Forest assistants
of subcontinent
have broadly used
the forests and
gardens of South India
Forest
Department
Dr.Hugh
Cleghorn’s
1861 manual.
India
His system made the
native of Karen village
labourers and was asked
to clean plant and weed
teak plantations. His
formulated legislation
helped to establish
research and training
institutions. He was the
founder of Imperial Forest
School at Dehradun.
Forest
Department
Sir Dietrich
Brandis
(Superintendent )
(Founder of
taungya system)
1856
Pegu division
of eastern
Burma.
United States
Organized environmental movement
Represented by a wide range of organizations sometimes called non-
governmental organizations or NGOs
Environmental NGOs
Vary widely in political views
Influence the environmental policy of the United States and
other governments.
Old U.S. conservation movement
Modern expression is
The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and National Geographic Society - American organizations with a worldwide influence.
Environmental Movement An Ideological Debate
Ecocentric View Point Anthropocentric View Point
Biodiversity and wilderness
protection
Urban pollution and social
justice.
Books Authors
Fundamentals of Ecology Eugene Odum and Howard
Odum1953
best-seller Silent Spring Rachel Carson, in 1962
Laws on Environment in US
There are numerous U.S. environmental laws
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
EPA in 1970
Laws regulating waste (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
Toxic substances (Toxic Substances Control Act)
Pesticides (FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act)
Clean-up of polluted sites (Superfund)
Protection of endangered species (Endangered Species Act), and more
Since Industrial Revolution the US has made immense progress in every field.
This progress has made her supra power but also raised some issues related to humans rights, health and ecology
The US in order to protect and made her land safe has articulated laws but is using others lands for the production purposes and dispersing pollutions in different forms and than investing money to protect the lands of others.