Natural Resources, Sustainability, and Intergenerational Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intergenerational Ethics

This chapter examines a variety of views about the nature of society’s putative duty to conserve natural resources for the future, with a focus on the contested idea of sustainability. This chapter examines competing conceptions of sustainability and their implications for natural resource conservation across generations. Sustainability is a very popular concept, but there are many different positions on what might be called the “sustainability of what?” question. The chapter examines a number of competing views and shows how controversy here has informed the debate between so-called weak and strong conceptions of sustainability. It concludes with an examination of the politics of sustainability, and in particular the connections and possible tensions between goals of natural resource conservation and of global justice.

scholarly journals Natural Resource Conservation Based on Community Economic Empowerment: Perspectives on Watershed Management and Slum Settlements in Makassar City, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Batara Surya ◽  
Syafri Syafri ◽  
Hernita Sahban ◽  
Harry Hardian Sakti
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Community Behavior ◽  
Conservation Of Natural Resources

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of slum development, community poverty, and community behavior on environmental degradation in the Tallo river basin in Makassar City and to analyze the effects of natural resource conservation, economic empowerment, community capacity building on the productivity of economic enterprises and ecosystem-based sustainability. This study uses a qualitative-quantitative approach in sequence. Data were obtained through observation, surveys, and documentation. The research findings show that slums, poverty, and community behavior have a significant effect on the decline in the environmental quality of the Tallo river basin in Makassar City, with a coefficient of determination of 32.2%. The results showed that the conservation of natural resources, economic empowerment, and community capacity building were positively correlated to increasing the productivity of community economic enterprises and the sustainability of watershed ecosystems. The assertion is that watershed conservation, integrated with economic empowerment, contributes positively to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. This study offers the concept of conservation of natural resources based on community economic empowerment as a solution to the handling of slums for the case of metropolitan cities in Indonesia, to support metropolitan city development programs nationally.

The Human Dimension in Natural Resource Conservation: A Sahelian Example from Niger

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Newby ◽  
John F. Grettenberger
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Rational Management ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Flexible Management

The Republic of Niger is establishing a vast national nature reserve in the Aïr Massif and Ténéré Desert. With its 77,360 km2, the reserve will cover a wide variety of arid-land habitats. Both rainfall and vegetation are sparse, but the area harbours a varied fauna that includes a number of threatened species. The Twareg inhabitants of the reserve subsist by raising livestock, by irrigating small gardens, and by caravanning. Their day-to-day existence relies heavily on natural resources, and their continued existence will depend on the conservation of those resources. Drought, desertification, and abusive use, are all responsible for the deterioration of those resources.Although highly necessary, the rational management of the area's natural resources will conflict with current landuse practices. Examples of where this happens are presented, and some proposals are put forward for their solution. Ideally, a flexible management system needs to be elaborated that will satisfy both the aspirations of the zone's managers and the immediate needs of its residents. The Authors hope that work in Niger will find its application elsewhere in the Sahel, and meanwhile emphasize the need to reconcile conservation with development.

scholarly journals KONSERVASI SUMBER DAYA ALAM DALAM PERSPEKTIF ISLAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syariful Anam ◽  
Wina Yulianti ◽  
Sari Nur Safitri ◽  
Siti Nur Qolifah ◽  
Rina Rosia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Mutual Care

This study examines how Islam views natural resource conservation. This is a qualitative research with a descriptive approach. Based on the results of the studies that have been carried out, it can be concluded that Islam teaches humans to be responsible for all of Allah's creation, including being responsible for protecting and maintaining natural resource ecosystems. The principle of conservation in Islam is based on mutual care between humans and nature, because basically humans take advantage of the available natural resources. In addition, in the utilization of natural resources, humans must pay attention to balance, not be exploitative and remain proportional so that natural resources are preserved.

scholarly journals A SYSTEM DESIGN OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AN AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 273-282
Author(s):  
Thomas Barlow ◽  
Mandappa Biddanda ◽  
Samarth Mendke ◽  
Emmanuel Miyingo ◽  
Anabel Sicko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
System Level ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Community ◽  
System Design Optimization ◽  
System Configurations

AbstractIntegrated Natural Resource Conservation and Development (INRCD) Projects are efforts at worldwide locations to promote economic development of local communities consistent with conservation of natural resources. This umbrella term includes Integration Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) introduced by the World Wide Fund to combine social development and conservation s through the use of socio-economic investments, and the Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) research and development efforts that have employed a systems approach for quantitative modeling and optimization. In the spirit of the INRCD framework, we describe the development of a system-level agriculture and energy model comprising engineering and economic models for crop, irrigation, and energy subsystem designs for a community in Central Uganda. The model architecture is modular allowing modifications for different system configurations and project locations. We include some initial results and discuss next steps for system optimization, refining model assumptions, and modeling community social benefits as drivers of such projects.

The Regulation of Combination

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoyAnna S. Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Design Choice ◽  
Control Regulation ◽  
And Control ◽  
Agency Design ◽  
Environmental Agency

In 15 American states, environmental protection agencies perform both pollution-control and natural resource conservation functions. In this study, I examine how this combination of functions affects the regulatory style embraced by these agencies. I find, through interviews with environmental agency workers and empirical analyses using enforcement data from 2010 to 2014, that the cooperation and flexibility with industry inherent to natural resource conservation efforts is a fundamental part of the regulatory process within these combined agencies. Great efforts are made to garner voluntary or negotiated compliance without the possible economic consequences of punitive actions. Enforcements are less frequent and less severe. The effect of this agency design choice is powerful, maintaining its effect even when controlling for political, ideological, and economical pressures. In a time where environmental protection agencies are increasingly interested in incorporating management-based regulation and voluntary compliance to supplement command and control regulation, it is more important than ever to understand the regulation that emerges from this combination.

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