Rekayasa Lingkungan

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• Simplified: Environment is everything that surrounds us

• However, exact definition remains to be discussed
• Popularity of environmental engineering rose up in 1960s
• Gain a significant attention nowadays

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Source: WHO

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Environment

Nature Artificial

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https://newint.org/blog/2012/08/07/belo-monte-dam-construction-photo

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https://newint.org/blog/2012/08/07/belo-monte-dam-construction-photo

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• The phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the
landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans
or human creations. (Oxford Dictionaries)

• All the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and
processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather,
the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, and growth
(Cambridge Dictionary)

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Something
Nature
Human
Artificial

Environment
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1. Regulation of atmospheric chemical composition

(CO2 / O2 balance, O3 for UVB protection, etc.)
Plants can be used for these functions
2. Climate regulation: global temperature, precipitation
(Greenhouse gas regulation, cloud formation)

3. Disturbance regulation: buffering capacity

(Response to environmental fluctuations: storm protection,
flood control, drought recovery)

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4. Water regulation: hydrological flows

(provisioning water for agricultural, industrial activities + transportation)

5. Water supply: storage and retention of water

(provisioning of water by watersheds, reservoirs, aquifers)

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4. Water regulation: hydrological flows

(provisioning water for agricultural, industrial activities + transportation)

5. Water supply: storage and retention of water

(provisioning of water by watersheds, reservoirs, aquifers)

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7. Soil formation
(Weathering of rock and accumulation of organic material)

8. Waste treatment: recovery of nutrients, breakdown toxins

(Waste treatment, pollution control, detoxification)
Nutrient cycling and breakdown of toxins:
Particularly specific bacteria present in soil/water

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11. Raw materials: primary production for raw materials

(Production of lumber, fuel, fodder)

12. Recreation: providing opportunities for recreational activities

(Eco-tourism, sport fishing, outdoors recreational activities)

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Examples of recent (costly) environmental problems

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Furthermore...

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There are numerous natural resources used in civil engineering practice:

Chemical substances
Bacteria
Etc.

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There are numerous natural resources used in civil engineering practice:

Chemical substances
Bacteria
Etc.

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• Those materials can be used to serve human needs

• However, these might happen if the use is not controlled:

Knowledge about environment is critical

to overcome these issues

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Environmental Ecological
• Study the interaction between • Study interaction between
components in environment, and effect
organisms and environment
to organism
• A broader subject
• A more focused discipline
• Example: study environmental change, • Example: study of population,
material demand and human life process, biodiversity
consumption, sustainability and
ecosystem

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