environmental management
Nature resource planning
Environmental management is the practice of monitoring and regulating human impact on natural systems—air, water, land, and ecosystems.
It encompasses policies, procedures, and practices that organizations and governments use to minimize environmental harm: The company hired a director of environmental management to oversee waste reduction.
The field spans compliance with regulations, sustainability initiatives, conservation efforts, and pollution control.
- sustainable developmentMeeting needs without exhausting resources
- climate actionMeasures addressing atmospheric change
- clean energyPower from sustainable sources
- air pollutionToxic atmospheric contamination
- tree plantingInstalling saplings in earth
carbon offsetting · reforestation · nature reserve · renewable energy · land stewardship · wastewater treatment · waste reduction · ecosystem restoration · carbon sequestration · soil erosion control · water conservation · hazardous waste disposal · oil spill · pollution control · water quality · green building · carbon · emissions
environmental managementresource exploitation
Using available materials up
environmental degradation · strip mining · deforestation · overfishing · habitat destruction
environmental managementbenign neglect
Purposeful non-intervention proving beneficial
non-intervention · inaction · apathy · disregard · dereliction
environmental managementindustrialization
Transition to factory-based economy
industrial development · industrial expansion · industrial capitalism · urban sprawl · overdevelopment
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