A Study on Environmental Issues with Reference to the

movements of wind. Similarly, the sphere may be limited or may
expand to include all the vital surroundings i.e. the sphere where
life exists, that of the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the
lithosphere. This means that the environment is three-dimensional
involving the ecological dimension, the socio-economic
dimension, and the socio-cultural dimension (the system of
values). This means that man lives in three environments (4)
interacting and affecting each other. They are:
The Vital Environment:
This is the natural and original life environment which Allah
created and wherein human beings are only one form among
many others.
The Man-made Environment
It consists of things made by humans and introduced onto the
environment.
The Social Environment
It is a system whereby human communities run their own
social and economic affairs, consisting of social customs,
administrative affairs, laws, and social as well as economic
institutions.
The environment is looked at as a functional system which
operates in a comprehensive manner via mutual relations between
its organic and non-organic components. The environmental
system has its inputs—carrying and storing—and its outputs such
as energy and basic products, all of which operate in natural
conditions. When the environmental system is upset by human
beings, it tends to reorganize itself at first. Through the act of
recurrence, plants tend to constitute a stable plant community
according to the principle of flowing energy. Stability in ecological
systems implies a dynamic balance between the input and the
output of energy and matter.
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