Activities of Environmental Management

Environmental administration is a wide group that has many subgroups. It consists of administrating water reserves, administrating wildlife, administrating coal, oil or gas production and more. People and companies from every size employ environmental administration. For example, administrating small woodland for a land owner is small-scale administration and administrating oil production for a company that produces energy is large-scale administration.

Evaluation

Everything in environmental administration must come from a previous evaluation. This is the first phase. If the administrator is expected to make proper decisions, he or she must first evaluate the resource in question. Administrating a forest for cutting timber can be a simple example. The forest administrator needs to cut trees for timber, and then he or she will need to evaluate the forest in order to get information about it such as the number, size and tree species in the forest.

Planning

The plan describes the details of the actions that will need to be done. In each plan, the goals of the environmental administrator must be stated. From the evaluation and the development of the plan, and the goals stated in it, if the administrator concludes that a natural resource without human interference will satisfy the goals, then there will no actions taken for that resource. However, most goals in environmental administration plan require some sort of human action.

Plan Execution

In the phase for plan execution, the environmental administrator will perform the actions noted in the plan. For example, in the forestry industry, forest environmental administrators will work for logging companies. The employees of the logging company will cut the only trees that are marked by environmental administrators (foresters).

One other example is when an environmental administrator has a task to eradicate an aggressive species (foreign plant species) in the administrated area. The administrator would require a crew capable of removing the plants. For example, in case of an oil or chemical spill, the environmental administrator would need to hire cleanup crew to clean the oil or chemical spill in the administrated area.