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Natural Resource Management

Natural resource management is challenging and requires consideration of various stakeholders' interests. While people prioritize their own interests, uncontrolled resource exploitation will ultimately harm many and destroy the environment. Beyond rules and laws, sustainable management requires tailoring resource use to benefit all current and future generations equitably.

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Natural Resource Management

Natural resource management is challenging and requires consideration of various stakeholders' interests. While people prioritize their own interests, uncontrolled resource exploitation will ultimately harm many and destroy the environment. Beyond rules and laws, sustainable management requires tailoring resource use to benefit all current and future generations equitably.

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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & CONSERVATION Overview: Sustainable management of natural resources is a difficult task.

In addressing this issue, we need to keep an open mind with regard to the interests of various stakeholders. We need to accept that people will act with their own best interests as the priority. But the realization that such selfish goals will lead to misery for a large number of people and a total destruction of our environment is slowly growing. Going beyond laws, rules and regulations, we need to tailor our requirements, individually and collectively, so that the benefits of development reach everyone now and for all generations to come. Why do we need to manage our resources: Not just roads and buildings, but all the things we use or consume food, clothes, books, toys, furniture, tools and vehicles are obtained from resources on this earth. The only thing we get from outside is energy which we receive from the Sun. Even this energy is processed by living organisms and various physical and chemical processes on the earth before we make use of it. Why do we need to use our resources carefully? Because these are not unlimited and with the human population increasing at a tremendous rate due to improvement in health-care, the demand for all resources is increasing at an exponential rate. The management of natural resources requires a long-term perspective so that these will last for the generations to come and will not merely be exploited to the hilt for short term gains. This management should also ensure equitable distribution of resources so that all, and not just a handful of rich and powerful people, benefit from the development of these resources. Another factor to be considered while we exploit these natural resources is the damage we cause to the environment while these resources are either extracted or used. For example, mining causes pollution because of the large amount of slag which is discarded for every tonne of metal extracted. Hence, sustainable natural resource management demands that we plan for the safe disposal of these wastes too.

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