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Environmental Resource Management

Environmental resource management aims to ensure ecosystem services and integrity by considering ethical, economic, and ecological factors. It identifies conflicts between meeting needs and protecting resources. Environmental resource management involves management of living and non-living environmental components from various scientific perspectives, including geography, biology, physics, chemistry, sociology, psychology, and physiology. It is linked to environmental protection, sustainability, and balances relationships between society and nature.

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Environmental Resource Management

Environmental resource management aims to ensure ecosystem services and integrity by considering ethical, economic, and ecological factors. It identifies conflicts between meeting needs and protecting resources. Environmental resource management involves management of living and non-living environmental components from various scientific perspectives, including geography, biology, physics, chemistry, sociology, psychology, and physiology. It is linked to environmental protection, sustainability, and balances relationships between society and nature.

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Environmental resource

management
Source: Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management
Fitzgerald Street, Northam
Western Australia
Environmental resource management
Environmental resource management is an
issue of increasing concern. The environment
determines nature of every objects around
the sphere. The behaviour, type of religion,
culture and economic practices.
Environmental Resource
Management
- is the management of the interaction and impact
of human societies on the environment. It is not,
as the phrase might suggest, the management of
the environment itself.
- Environmental resources management aims to
ensure that ecosystem services are protected and
maintained for future human generations, and
also maintain ecosystem integrity through
considering ethical, economic, and scientific
(ecological) variables.
Environmental resource management tries to
identify factors affected by conflicts that rise
between meeting needs and protecting
resources. It is thus linked to:
- environmental protection
- sustainability
Environmental Protection
It is a practice of protecting the natural environment on
individual, organizational or governmental levels, for the
benefit of both the natural environment and humans. Due to
the pressures of population and technology, the biophysical
environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently. This
has been recognized, and governments have begun placing
restraints on activities that cause environmental degradation.
Since the 1960s, activity of environmental movements has
created awareness of the various environmental issues.
There is no agreement on the extent of the environmental
impact of human activity, and protection measures are
occasionally criticized.
Sustainability
In ecology, sustainability is the capacity to endure; it is
how biological systems remain diverse and
productive indefinitely. Long-lived and
healthy wetlands and forests are examples of
sustainable biological systems. In more general terms,
sustainability is the endurance of systems and
processes. The organizing principle for sustainability
is sustainable development, which includes the four
interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics
and culture.
Sustainability science is the study of sustainable
development and environmental science.
Ecological
"The pairing of significant uncertainty about the
behaviour and response of ecological systems with
urgent calls for near-term action constitutes a difficult
reality, and a common lament" for
many environmental resource managers. Scientific
analysis of the environment deals with several
dimensions of ecological uncertainty.[
A common scientific concept and impetus behind
environmental resource management is carrying
capacity. Simply put, carrying capacity refers to the
maximum number of organisms a particular resource
can sustain.
Economical
The economy functions within, and is dependent upon
goods and services provided by natural ecosystems.
With the prevalence of environmental problems,
many economists embraced the notion that, "If
environmental sustainability must coexist for
economic sustainability, then the overall system must
[permit] identification of an equilibrium between the
environment and the economy." As such, economic
policy makers began to incorporate the functions of
the natural environment—or natural capital —
particularly as a sink for wastes and for the provision
of raw materials and amenities.
Ethical
Environmental resource management strategies are
intrinsically driven by conceptions of human-
nature relationships. Ethical aspects involve the
cultural and social issues relating to the environment,
and dealing with changes to it. "All human activities
take place in the context of certain types of
relationships between society and the bio-physical
world (the rest of nature)," and so, there is a great
significance in understanding the ethical values of
different groups around the world.
Two Schools in Environmental Ethics
Anthropocentrism
- an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of
human values,“
- Anthropocentrism looks at nature as existing solely for
the benefit of man, and as a commodity to use for the
good of humanity and to improve human quality of life.
Ecocentrism
- Ecocentrists believe in the intrinsic value of nature
while maintaining that human beings must use and
even exploit nature to survive and live.It is this fine
ethical line that ecocentrists navigate between fair use
and abuse.[
Political
Public Sector - The public sector comprises the general
government sector plus all public corporations including
the central bank. In environmental resource management the
public sector is responsible for administering natural resource
management and implementing environmental
protection legislation.
Private sector
The private sector comprises private corporations and non-
profit institutions serving households. The private sector's
traditional role in environmental resource management is
that of the recovery of natural resources. Such private sector
recovery groups include mining (minerals and petroleum),
forestry and fishery organisations.
Civil society - comprises associations in which
societies voluntarily organise themselves into
and which represent a wide range of interests
and ties. These can include community-based
organisations, indigenous peoples'
organisations and non-government
organisations (NGO).
Scopes
Environmental resource management can be
viewed from a variety of perspectives.
Environmental resource management involves
the management of all components of
the biophysical environment, both living
(biotic) and non-living (abiotic).
Scopes
It should be noted that environmental resource
management covers many areas in the field of
science:
• Geography
• Biology
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Physiology

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