ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEM AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
ENVIRONMENT
Environment can be defined as one’s surroundings, which includes
everything around as organism i.e., abiotic (non living) and biotic (living)
environment.
Abiotic environment consists of soil, water and air, while the biotic
environment includes all other organism, with which the organism comes
into regular contract.
“Environment may refer to a small localized area in which a specific problem is
to be addressed, or it may take on global dimensions on the other hand”
ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENT
Two types of environment
• Natural Environment
• Anthropogenic Environment
TYPES OF ENVIRONMENT
Natural Environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things
occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof.
It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living
species.
The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished by
components.
TYPES OF ENVIRONMENT
Natural Environment
Complete ecological units that function as natural systems without massive
human intervention, including all vegetation, microorganisms, soil,
rocks, atmosphere, and natural phenomena that occur within their
boundaries.
Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut
boundaries, such as air, water, and climate, as well as energy, radiation,
electric charge, and magnetism, not originating from human activity
TYPES OF ENVIRONMENT
Anthropogenic Environment
Manmade Environment
Artificial Environment
Example;
Buildings , Industries , Vehicles and all other human made things
Environmental Science and Environmental
Engineering
Environmental science, Environmental engineering is a
interdisciplinary academic field professional engineering
that draws on ecology, geology, discipline that encompasses broad
meteorology, biology, chemistry, scientific topics like chemistry,
engineering, and physics to study biology, ecology, geology,
environmental problems and hydraulics, hydrology,
human impacts on the microbiology, and mathematics to
environment. create solutions that will protect
and also improve the health of
living organisms and improve the
quality of the environment.
SEGMENTS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Division of Environment
➢Hydrosphere
➢Lithosphere
➢Atmosphere
➢Biosphere
SEGMENTS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
HYDROSPHERE
The hydrosphere (from Greek Hydrous, "water“ and sphaira,
"sphere“ in physical geography describes the combined mass
of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.
➢1386 million cubic kilometers of water on earth.
➢This includes water in liquid and frozen forms in groundwater's,
glaciers, oceans, lakes and streams.
➢Saline water account for 97.5% , Fresh Water 2.5%
SEGMENTS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
LITHOSPHERE
The lithosphere (Ancient Greek: [lithos] for "rocky",
and [sphaira] for "sphere") is the rigid outermost shell of
a rocky planet. On Earth, it comprises the crust and the
portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on
time scales of thousands of years or greater.
Lithosphere
The cover of rock
constituting the earth’s
crust is called
“Lithosphere”.
Soil and Rocks are the
important part of
lithosphere.
SEGMENTS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
ATMOSPHERE
An atmosphere (New Latin atmosphere, created in the
17th century from Greek [atoms] "vapor" and sphere”) is
a layer of gases surrounding a material body of
sufficient mass that is held in place by the gravity of the
body. An atmosphere is more likely to be retained if the
gravity is high and the atmosphere's temperature is low.
Biosphere
This is region of the
Earth where life exits.
It extending from about
10 kms below the sea
levels 6 kms above
the sea levels.
BIOSPHERE
Life Present on earth
ECOSYSTEM
It is system in which all living and Nonliving things interact
each other . And ecology is the study of Interaction of all living
and nonliving things , their behavior and
role in environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural
environment that cause adverse change.
Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as
noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either
foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants.
Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution.
TYPES OF POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
AIR NOISE
LIGHT
SOIL
RADIOACTIVE WATER THERMAL
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
It is an integrated engineering approach of science and technology ,
through which the systems are designed to protect environment ,
protect society and economically sustainable.
Focus areas
➢ Air pollution Control
➢ Noise Pollution Control
➢ Water Pollution Control
➢ Land Pollution
➢ Health and Safety
➢ Accident Prevention
➢ Drinking Water Treatment and Supply
➢ Wastewater Treatment
THREE BASIC APPROACHES IN
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Pollution Remediation
Pollution treatment
Pollution Avoidance / Prevention
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