Resource Utilization and Environment/Sustainable Development

Resource utilization and environment/sustainable development

A resource is usually defined as anything obtained from the environment to meet human needs. The resources that are created by nature are called natural resources. These resources are the gift of nature. Natural resources like air, water, land, forest, wildlife, mineral etc. The value of natural resources varies from a capacity of society depending upon their availability. These natural resources are the backbone of every economy. However, the current rate of resources used by developed and developing countries is unsustainable making the future generations and developing nations won’t have access to their fair share of scare resources.

Sustainable development is the management of renewable resources for the good of the entire human and natural community. The goal of sustainable development is to provide resources for the use of present populations without compromising the availability of resources for future generations, and without causing environmental damage that challenges the survival of other species and natural ecosystems.

The notion of sustainable development recognizes that individual humans and their larger economic systems can only be sustained through the exploitation of natural resources. The stocks of non-renewable resources such as metals, coals, and the petroleum can only be diminished by their use. Sustainable economics cannot be based on the use of non-renewable resources. Ultimately, sustainable for the economics must be supported by the use of renewable resources such as biological productivity, solar, the wind, geothermal, and biomass energy sources.

The unsustainable resource use can also cause serious damage to the environment and contributes significantly to the enhanced greenhouse effect and climate change. The environment impact of our resources use patterns will only worsen on the developing world uses resources at the high rate of industrialized countries.

The use of materials has recently become a key issue in sustainability policies i.e. Reduce, Reuse and recycle.

Reduce

Resources are limited and therefore we must not waste resources. Natural resources should be used only to meet basic needs. It is better to reduce consumption of Natural Resources. Reduction in the consumption of resources will result in conservation of natural resources.

Reuse

Reuse involves using the same products again and again in its original form. Reuse reduces the energy use and the pollution that exists around us.

Recycle

Recycle process saves the energy and causes less pollution. Reuse or recycling process is called the resource recovery.

Sustainable management of Natural Resources and Environment Protection by:

• Supporting sustainable access to renewable energy and promoting energy and resource efficiently.
• Developing good environmental legislation and governance.
• Emphasizing the positions and specific needs of developing countries and especially women in implementing decisions.
• Assembling developing countries to adapt climate change.
• Promoting sustainable management and use of the Natural Resources.
• Promoting the equitable sustainable management of wastes resources.

Conformity

Conformity is a type of social influence involving the change in belief or behavior in order to fit it with a group. This change is in response to real, imagined group pressure. Conformity can also be simply defined as yielding to group pressure. Group pressure is also known as majority influence or group pressure.

Types of conformity

1. Normative conformity

It involves in changing one’s behavior in order to fit with the group.

2. Informational conformity

It happens when the person lacks knowledge and looks to the group for information and directions.

3. Identification conformity

It occurs when the people conform to what is expected of then based upon their social rules.

4. Compliance conformity

It involves changing one’s behavior while still internally disagreeing with the group.

5. Internalization conformity

It occurs when we change our behavior because we want to be like another person.

Law of conformity

The law of conformity states that more people attempt not to conform to certain stereotypes and shared identities, the more they actually do conform to those stereotypes and identities.

Many teenagers of this age, become goths in an attempt to stand out as individuals or else as a means of expressing what they feel is their “true self”. However, in adopting the manner, attire and musical tastes of the goth community, teenage goths ultimately end up conforming.

There are two opposing forces at work in the evolution of any language. There is a tendency for a language to drift in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Children can never copy their parents language exactly just as every human body is different, and every human voice is different. Every generation requires a changed language: every baby acquires a language as a copy of a copy as infinite. In opposition to the natural drift of the language is the set of the communal rules of conformity. These are not the social rule but the natural rules-bound by nature. The child whose language differs excessively from the average will not be understood easily. The communication is required that at least two communicators share a common code. The evolution, through rules of the conformity, maintains the commonality of the code in the local group.

The language is evolved so that all of its users confirm the shared grammar. No one can make a concise decision in it. As the travel becomes easier, groups will encounter each other and there will be the encounter of each other and sharing and mixing of regional language customs. Eventually, over a large region bordered by natural barriers, an outside observer would note a single language with relatively minor regional variations.

Use of sociological and anthropological knowledge on environment conservation

The law of conformity states that more people attempt not to conform to certain stereotypes and shared identities, the more they actually do conform to those stereotypes and identities. Both conservation biology and the study of the traditional ecological knowledge function at the nexus of the social and natural worlds, yet historically there have been major impediments to integrating the two. Here, we identify the linguistic, cultural and epistemological barriers between the two disciples. We argue that the two disciples are uniquely positioned to inform each other and to provide critical insights and the new perspective on the way that these sciences are practiced. We conclude by synthesizing the common themes common themes found in the conservation success stories and by making several suggestions on integration. These include cross-disciplinary publications expanding memberships in professional societies and conducting the multidisciplinary research based on the similar interest in the ecological process, taxonomy, or geography. Finally, it is argued that by bringing these disciples together we may be able to forget the synergistic conservation programs capable of protecting the vivid splendor of life on the earth.

The conservation biology is now beginning to recognize that the culture and the cultural diversity are are the most critical factors in the ultimate success of the conservation regime. However, most conservation biologists received their academic training through the biology department. For the past two decades, the biodiversity conservation has been an area of concerned action and the spiritual debate. It says that the centrality of biodiversity to the earth life support system, it's increasing the vulnerability is being addressed in international conservation as well as in research by anthropologists and other social scientists on the cultural, economic political, and legal aspects of the human engagement with biological resources.

References:

Santa, S.C. Environmet\nt Science . India: New Central Book Agency (p) Ltd., 2004.

T., Richard. Towards a Sustainable Future . India: PHI (p)Limited, 2008.