Many Faces of Resource Management: Blueprint for Sustainable Conservation

Muses Volume 1, 2018

17 Pages Posted: 16 Apr 2020

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Supatra Sen

Asutosh College - Department of Botany

Date Written: March 23, 2018

Abstract

Sustainable Resource Management, which includes Sustainable Development, entails using natural resources (biotic and abiotic) in ways beneficial to human beings, while maintaining their availability to support biological diversity and continuing human use in the future. At the 2005 World Summit it was accepted that sustainable development requires the reconciliation of economic development, social equity and environmental protection - the "three pillars" of sustainability. At the core of this quest for sustainability is the need to be able to live within ecological limits. Once humanity exceeds the carrying capacity of the planet, further expansion impoverishes us, since such ― development‖ is not achieved by using the regenerative ― interest‖ of nature, but by liquidating natural capital. The depletion of ecological assets systematically undermines the Quality of Life, the product of the interplay among social, health, economic and environmental conditions. Environment Management includes ― measures and controls which are directed at environmental conservation, the rational and sustainable allocation and utilization of natural resources, the optimization of interrelations between society and the environment and the improvement of human welfare for present and future generations.‖The central ethical principle behind sustainable development is equity and particularly inter-generational equity. Sustainability requires that we must not turn our resources into waste any faster than nature can recycle waste into resources. Certain strategies and action plans can be developed, anchored on the framework of man being at the centre of ecosystems and resource interaction and the need to balance the utilization driven policy which entails modification of biodiversity for human needs with the conservation driven policy for maintaining natural biodiversity. As considerable momentum gathers for the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (2011-2020) including the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Indian experience of employing a range of biodiversity governance models to balance conservation and development has immense relevance in countries throughout the world. As emphasized in the UNDP‘s new Biodiversity and Ecosystems Global Framework 2012-2020, The Future We Want: Biodiversity and Ecosystems ― Driving Sustainable Development, we need to unlock the potential of protected areas, including community conserved areas, to protect biodiversity while contributing towards sustainable development. In conclusion, the three segments of sustainability – ecology, economy and society are to be addressed based on the supreme principles of conservation, utilization and regeneration to preserve the crucial links in the web of life and nature.

Keywords: Sustainable Development, Sustainable Resource Management, Biodiversity, Conservation

Suggested Citation

Sen, Supatra, Many Faces of Resource Management: Blueprint for Sustainable Conservation (March 23, 2018). Muses Volume 1, 2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3559203 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3559203

Supatra Sen (Contact Author)

Asutosh College - Department of Botany ( email )

92, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rd
Kolkata, 700026
India

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