Environmental management and sustainable development

Abstract

Environmental management focuses on maintaining natural resources such as timber. Water and open land without diminishing or destroying them. Sustainable development seeks to meet human needs without depleting resource. The four main types of sustainability are human, social, economic and environmental. Coordinated approaches are necessary for solving the major environmental and sustainability problems facing the developing as well as developed regions of the world. There is therefore a need to have a better understanding of the multidisciplinary interrelationships between sustainable development, human health and the environment. Specific emphasis was placed on globalization and sustainable growth, bioethics and poverty, organizational performance and sustainability, environmental management and individual progress, human and ecosystem health, and water resources and recycling. Objective: The most important objective of sustainable development is to balance our economic, environmental and social needs, allowing prosperity for now and future generations.