Natural Resource Management
- It means management anthropogenic activities with environmentally tolerable limits, which take into account the benefits and costs to the society as a whole and regulate the demands of man in such a manner that the ability of the same environment to sustain his development remain unpaired.
Sustainable Development
- It is the development that meets the demands of the present generation without compromising the preserving ability of the future generation to meet their needs.
- A sustainable development is built on four pillars-conservation, recycling, renewable resources, and population control.
How?
- Utilize renewable resources at rates less than or equal to the natural rate at which they generate.
- Keep waste flows to the environment at or below the assimilative capacity of the environment.
- Ensure that as exhaustible resources are depleted that their reduced stock is compensating for by increase in renewable resources and technological progress.
- All the give standard of living can be secured from a reducing stock of resources i.e. through increased efficiency of resource use.