Eco-management
Eco-management means the development and exploitation of natural resources in a sustainable way which is environment friendly. Change and development are essential to human progress, and exploiting nature in this process is not a new phenomenon. In this march of progress, we have overexploited nature and caused harm to its environmental quality. However, we actually realized the problem only during the last fifty years when it started to be grave and there was a hue and cry throughout the globe. That there is a link between development and environmental issues was first raised in Stockholm Congress in 1972 and then at Rio Conference in 1992 and Rio+10 in 2002 as a global forum and it has been realized that development is also possible by making peace with nature. This has been termed as sustainable development. It needs a point of balance whereby the present need may be met without jeopardizing the environmental quality of nature for future generation.
Then what should be the strategy to achieve the goal of simultaneous balance? For this, we need to develop a plan of survival.
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