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1.4 Environment Management
Disasters, whether natural or man-made, is a major challenge to accomplishing
global sustainability. Planning of disaster management has carried out widely
around the world in various ways in developing and developed countries, but the
functioning of such plans experiences challenges even in developed countries
(United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP
2017)). The corporate sector has also started to play a vital role in reducing the damage and impact after disaster as well as risk-reduction activities (UNDP 2013).
Management of environment, food security and poverty alleviation are main factors
contributing to the complexity of natural resource management. Proper resource
management is very important for a sustainable livelihood. The rural poor depend
on agriculture or are otherwise dependent on natural resources for their livelihood.
Thus, the linkage between rural livelihood and natural resources is necessarily a
close one (Chambers and Conway 1991). But the full potentials resulting from this
linkage cannot be realized unless the poor have improved and more equitable access
to those resources and the poor are better able to sustainably manage their resource
base. Whether these challenges are longstanding or newly emerging, the livelihood
and well-being of the rural poor depend fundamentally on the opportunities available to them; these opportunities are shaped in substantial part, by their access to
natural resources. Those accesses and the capability of the poor to increase access
and enhance their management of their resource base are, in turn, depend on numerous underlying political, social and macro-economic factors. These factors are also
changing, as forces of globalization, migration, market integration, democratization
and decentralization; among others, continue to alter the relationship between rural
people, their resource base and their capacity to effect change. Making improved
management decisions regarding resource use, formulating informed policy changes
and public investments are all critical to expanding the choices available to poor
people and for empowering them to improve their livelihoods.
References
Adetona AB, Layzell DB (2019) Anthropogenic energy and carbon flows through Canada’s
agri-food system: reframing climate change solutions. Anthropocene 27:100213. https://doi.
org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100213
Akgün I, Gümüşbuğa F, Tansel B (2015) Risk based facility location by using fault tree analysis in
disaster management. Omega 52:168–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2014.04.003
Balée W (2006) The research program of historical ecology. Annu Rev Anthropol 35(1):75–98.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123231
Basu B, Srinivas VV (2014) Flood frequency analysis using a novel mathematical approach
International Journal of Engineering Research Innovative Research Publications 3:209–213
ISSN: 2319-6890
1 Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics: An Overview
1.4 Environment Management
Disasters, whether natural or man-made, is a major challenge to accomplishing
global sustainability. Planning of disaster management has carried out widely
around the world in various ways in developing and developed countries, but the
functioning of such plans experiences challenges even in developed countries
(United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP
2017)). The corporate sector has also started to play a vital role in reducing the damage and impact after disaster as well as risk-reduction activities (UNDP 2013).
Management of environment, food security and poverty alleviation are main factors
contributing to the complexity of natural resource management. Proper resource
management is very important for a sustainable livelihood. The rural poor depend
on agriculture or are otherwise dependent on natural resources for their livelihood.
Thus, the linkage between rural livelihood and natural resources is necessarily a
close one (Chambers and Conway 1991). But the full potentials resulting from this
linkage cannot be realized unless the poor have improved and more equitable access
to those resources and the poor are better able to sustainably manage their resource
base. Whether these challenges are longstanding or newly emerging, the livelihood
and well-being of the rural poor depend fundamentally on the opportunities available to them; these opportunities are shaped in substantial part, by their access to
natural resources. Those accesses and the capability of the poor to increase access
and enhance their management of their resource base are, in turn, depend on numerous underlying political, social and macro-economic factors. These factors are also
changing, as forces of globalization, migration, market integration, democratization
and decentralization; among others, continue to alter the relationship between rural
people, their resource base and their capacity to effect change. Making improved
management decisions regarding resource use, formulating informed policy changes
and public investments are all critical to expanding the choices available to poor
people and for empowering them to improve their livelihoods.
References
Adetona AB, Layzell DB (2019) Anthropogenic energy and carbon flows through Canada’s
agri-food system: reframing climate change solutions. Anthropocene 27:100213. https://doi.
org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100213
Akgün I, Gümüşbuğa F, Tansel B (2015) Risk based facility location by using fault tree analysis in
disaster management. Omega 52:168–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2014.04.003
Balée W (2006) The research program of historical ecology. Annu Rev Anthropol 35(1):75–98.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123231
Basu B, Srinivas VV (2014) Flood frequency analysis using a novel mathematical approach
International Journal of Engineering Research Innovative Research Publications 3:209–213
ISSN: 2319-6890
1 Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics: An Overview