ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION A healthy and prudently managed environment is a major benefit to humans and other species. The natural environment is the sustainer of all life on earth. Indeed, humans and all living organisms rely
for their very survival on the basic resources which earth’s natural environment provides. Paramount among these resources are fertile land, fresh water, energy, and biodiversity. Already the human population is consuming more than 50 per cent of
SUMMARY Rapid human population growth in the world today is a major challenge to environmental management. The current world population is nearly 6 billion-a quarter of a million people are being added daily-and populations in a few countries are doubling every seventeen years. As a result, pollutants are being produced practically everywhere in the world by human activities faster than they can be managed and/or degraded by natural biota and the environment.
