Human Resource Management: Ecological Sustainability

The term sustainability has a range of definitions running into hundreds, making any preliminary definition necessarily highly abstract, but all cluster around the core idea that some system, process, range of welfare, or set of items can be maintained at a certain rate or level for the long term; the ingredients of this formulation and its applications, however, vary widely, as do their disciplinary roots and practical implications. In the context of natural resources, sustainability can be defined as the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance.
Murray Rutherford (2009) views resource management as decision making about how to conserve, allocate and use the goods and services available to satisfy people's value demands. Such decision making is fundamental to people's interactions with one another and with the environment. The term resource management often is used to refer specifically to decision making about the goods and services available from the natural world, or natural-resource management. This includes decisions about allocating the benefits and costs of resource use among current members of society and between current and future generations. To some people resource …show more content…
Piers Stephens (2009) states that Ecological sustainability implies the satisfaction of three conditions in human interactions with nature: a). Rates of use of renewable resources must not exceed their rates of regeneration; b). Rates of use of non-renewable resources must not exceed the rate at which renewable substitutes can be developed; and c). Rates of pollution emission must not exceed the assimilative capacity of the environment. Renewable resources being air, water, some groundwater, forests, crops, animals and some energy sources ; non-renewable being soil, some groundwater, oil, coal, and most