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TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT

MED-005: Integrated Environmental Management: Rural and Urban

Course Code: MED-005

Assignment Code: MED-005/TMA/2023

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: • This assignment is based on the entire course.

• All questions are compulsory. Marks for the questions are shown within brackets

on the right-hand side.

• Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

• Write the answers in about 250 words for 5 marks questions and not exceeding 500 words for 10 marks questions.

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1. Explain how sustainable development led to the idea of integrated environmental management.

2. What are the benefits of EIA? Explain the EIA process.

3. Discuss the political and economic constraints on policymaking. 

4. Discuss the effects and problems related to the Green Revolution. 

5. Discuss in detail the principles and practices for sustainable forestry management. 

6. Describe the role of the social organisers and community activists to accomplish the task of community mobilization.

7. Elaborate on the major threats to water resources from various human activities.

8. Write short notes on the following:

a) Initial environmental examination (IEE) 

b) Environmental labelling 

c) South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) 

d) Stages of policy development

e) UNCED Agenda 21 

f) Economic incentives

MED5, MED 5 ENGLISH MEDIUM