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A Guide to Understanding the Fundamental Principles of Environmental Management
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Technological innovation, which has given humans dominance over land and waterand made once scarce resources readily available, is a two-edged sword: it has freedmuch of humanity from the shackles of food and resource scarcity, but it does so atthe cost of environmental degradation. The latter comes, ironically, from excesses ofwhat makes life possible.The research that I and my fellow scientists conduct documents the adverseimpacts of ill-management of natural resources and illuminates solutions to thedilemma. Nevertheless, if progress towards sustainability is to be achieved, thescience must be translated into action. In other words, managing and protectingthe environment means making decisions on how resources are used. Not alldecisions are alike. We naturally want the action to solve the problems we face,but the likelihood that it does so depends substantially upon how well theproblem has been defined and the appropriateness of the response. There is no setscript to guide actions for the manager to follow. Scientific knowledge is everevolving in the context of ever-changing human demands on natural resourcesmade ever more complicated within a changing climate. The successful managermust know how to construct responses to these difficult challenges on soundscientific principles. He or she must know or anticipate, as if instinctively, wherethe sword will slice, and how to seek appropriate scientific guidance.
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