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A 5 page discussion of the many complex consideration which go into environmental management. The environmental management approaches of preservation and conservation are defined and contrasted. The author
contends that rather than get caught up in the semantics of the preservation verses conservation argument, however, we must selectively employ each
of these approaches if we are to find the most workable solution to insure the future of our world's natural resources as a whole.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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other than what direct economic value they hold for mankind. Others contend that natural system not only have a non-commercial value but a value simply in the fact that
they are. These individuals contend that development has rendered a great toll on the natural resources of our country and indeed of the world in general. Throughout the
European presence on this continent land and its corresponding natural resources have been viewed as commodities, items to be bought and sold and modified according to the desires and whims
of their "owners". The view of natural resources as commodities made for a disjointed approach towards the harvesting and maintenance of these commodities and in the development of the
land which housed them. Rather than viewing the lands as habitats and valuable ecosystems, as a whole entity with each plant, animal, and geographic feature interdependent with each
other; they were viewed as individual commodities which could be torn from their surroundings (without regard to sustaining the ecosystem) and sold for a profit. Land was plowed under
and forever altered in agricultural and industrial pursuits or in other ways destroyed. Even attempts at protecting these resources have sometimes had more of an anthropomophic approach to them
than a strictly preservationist approach. Thus enters the argument ecologists have waged for years as to whether the value of preservation outweighs that of conservation. In reality, we
must selectively employ each of these approaches if we are to find the most workable solution to insure the future of our worlds natural resources as a whole.
Distinguishing between preservation and conservation can be complicated to say the least. From a broad perspective, however, preservation entails the complete stabilization of an
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