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