What is Environmental Resource Management Strategies.
ERM is the management of the interaction and appulse 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 assure that ecosystem services are protected and maintained for future human generations, and also maintain ecosystem probity 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, integrated landscape management, natural resource management, fisheries management, forest management, and wildlife management, and others.
Types of Environmental resources management
Its can be classified as 1. renewable,
2.Non-renewable
3. continuous.
1. Renewable environmental resources
RER are those which are, or can be, replenish within a relatively short time, for example, water through the water cycle; and plants, animals and marine life through reproduction. However, overuse of a renewable resource can lead to its disintegration, as with the overexploitation of a fishery or the over-extraction of groundwater.
2. Non-renewable environmental resources are those that cannot be renewed, for example, minerals. Soils that have been unrestrained can only be renewed over long timescales.
3. Continuous environmental resources are those, such as solar or wind energy, whose availability is unaffected by their use by humans.
Principles of ERM
•Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) .
•User Pays Principle (UPP).
•Precautionary Principle (PP) .
•Principle of Responsibility.
•Principle Of Effectiveness and Efficiency.
•Principle of Proportionality.
•Principle Of Participation.
Significance
The environment determines the nature of people, animals, plants, and places around the Earth, affecting behaviour, religion, culture and economic practices.
Environmental resource management is an issue of increasing concern, as reflected in its influence in several texts persuade global sociopolitical frameworks.
Concept of ERM
The ecological balance and ecosystem stability are duly maintained by the nature itself but the manifestation of modern industrial era has disturbed the ecological balance through heavy industrialization, technological revolution, faster growth of means of transportation, desirous exploitation of resources, unplanned urbanization.
The anthropogenic activities of modern economic and technological man have disturbed the harmonious relationships between the environment and human beings. Environmental management is thus, the process to improve the relationship between the human beings and environment which may be achieved through check on catastrophic activities of man, conservation, protection, regulation and regeneration of nature.
Objectives of environmental management are,
(i) To accommodate the environmental problem and to find its solution.
(ii) To restrict and regulate the perversion and utilization of natural resources.
(iii) To regenerate degraded environment and to renew natural resources.
(iv) To control environmental pollution and calibration.
(v) To reduce the impacts of extreme events and natural disaster.
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