NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT:AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH

Natural resources and ecosystem management involves managing whole geographic landscape over long time, taking human needs into consideration, maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes, utilizing innovative institutional arrangements, integrating economics, science and policy, encouraging public involvement, and adapting management based on conscious experimentation and routine monitoring. Ecosystem management, like sustainable development, recognizes that societal goals, environmental quality, and economic health are all inextricably interlinked. Natural resources management is fundamentally concerned with ecosystems interactions- of energy, air, water, mineral, plant, animal and microbial components. A key concept here is that any human activity influencing one