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DEVELOPMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
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At present, problems of optimization of the interaction between nature and human society can be solved only by the joint efforts of a wide range of specialists. The elaboration and realization of plans of socio-economic development for individual countries and regions should be based on the principles of preservation of balance in the biosphere, biogeocenoses, landscapes and other natural complexes, and on the principles of rational natural resources management.
Solution of these acute problems requires profound knowledge of the patterns of natural processes and phenomena, in addition to knowledge of economic development patterns, and the ability to use them in everyday life for natural resources management, primarily for evaluation of possible environmental consequences of economic development.
Investigations being carried out in different countries have shown that the effect of human economic activity on natural systems has now acquired a global scale comparable with that of the action of natural forces themselves, and that nature alone cannot, without the active assistance of humankind, preserve and restore its balanced state. At the same time, economic development necessarily involves the production and processing of natural resources. That is why today it is necessary to manage natural resources in ways that do not entail deterioration of the environment, but instead provide conditions for its self-restoration.
Practical recommendations for environmental conservation have their origins in the well- developed sciences of biology, chemistry, physics, geography and others. However, it is ecology that remains the basis for elaborating such recommendations.
Ecology, being a synthetic biological science studying the relations between organisms and their environment, is the scientific basis for optimum natural resources management and environmental conservation. However, the interests of modem ecology extend far beyond the limits of biology. Although at its conceptual level it is a fundamental biological science, in application it is concerned with a whole range of other disciplines, including economics.
Aleksandr V. Souvorov - Personal Name
1st Edtion
0-444-82659-9
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DEVELOPMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Economics
English
Elsevier Science B.V.
1999
Netherlands.
1-225
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