Introduction Every day, society is wasting the Earth’s natural resources in an unsustainable way. By continuing to live in an unsustainable way, it has resulted in the depletion of resources on this planet. Our lifestyles have caused this to become a problem that needs to be fixed. Populations of developing countries are wasting our resources at rates never before seen, yet mankind rarely realizes how it is affecting the planet. If our lifestyles are not changed sooner rather than later, deeper consequences…

The World Heritage Convention was set up in 1972 to protect and maintain natural heritage. There has been a significant rise in the interest in natural heritage values in the past 100 years which has resulted in a number of officially protected areas of conservation. There is a general expectation that natural heritage conservation actions should also benefit human well-being and contribute to poverty alleviation. This paper will examine whether or not these are realistic expectations or simply ideas…

Natural resources include everything that the Earth provides that we need to live and survive. Knowing the importance of the natural resources to human life we must be aware that natural resources cannot be replenished once they have been depleted. We need to be very cautious that some natural resources we use are more easily renewed than others (Media: 1.5 Resource, n.d.). We need to be aware that we are responsible in the use and protection of the world around us through proper conservation and…

perceived and finely felt, as injustice.” (Sen, 2009: p: vii). In 1979 Amartya Sen presented the capability approach as an alternative and improvement on the social primary goods approach provided by John Rawls. And also to the preferences satisfaction and real income ideas as measures for well being for the purposes of justice. in his lecture at Stanford University entitled “Equality of What”. Sen argued if People were basically very similar, then an index of primary goods might be quit a good way…

First, I will talk about the indigenous people’s view of the conservation of resources which can also be termed as the traditional ecological knowledge and the economist view of natural resources. Second, I will argue in this essay that by thinking of resources from the traditional ecological point of view, we can better understand why conserving our natural resources is important. I believe that we understanding why conservation of our natural resources is important will go a long way in helping us…

How Natural Disasters Affect the Environment Author's name Author's institutional affiliation Author's note How Natural Disasters Affect the Environment A natural hazard is a geophysical, atmospheric or hydrological event (e.g., earthquake, landslide, tsunami, windstorm, flood or drought) that has the potential to cause harm or loss, while a natural disaster is the occurrence of an extreme hazardous event that impacts on communities causing damage, disruption and casualties, and leaving the…

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unities and challenges associated with integrating diverse knowledge systems into natural resource management Introduction: The world climate is degrading in different ways to strive with the human need as well as some place of the earth is still occult to modern science. Standing in this situation, we are trying to organize the natural resource management through the utilization of scientific (research based) and local or indigenous knowledge system. On the other hand, to keep a continuous food…

Industrial Revolution, natural resources have been under increasing pressure. The significant changes in the amount of natural resources we have left have led to many issues, such as global public health and global development. Other areas affected include the loss of forest, water and air pollution, decrease in fresh water supply and degradation of soil. Today we are currently seeing dramatic increases in global population. As the world’s population continues to rise, natural resources will continue…

imposes of “epidemics, resource war, terrorism, and deaths from violent climatic events” (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 2012). Malthus argued that, people growth respond to wage or income that correlate negatively with the size of population (Lee 2011). On the other hand, climate change correlates positively with increase population. The pollutants such as greenhouse gas emissions from industry, transportation, agricultural activities, deforestation, and desertification are all associated with massive population…