page_title: Environmental resource management
section_title: Scope
hierarchical_section_title: Environmental resource management / Scope
caption_attribution_description: English: Terraces, conservation tillage and conservation buffers save soil and improve water quality on this farm in Woodbury County in northwest Iowa. 1999. Photo by Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Français&#160;: Zone de culture où un labour en terrasse, avec des zones tampons (haies ou bandes enherbées) conservées pour la restauration et protection des sols et la restauration de la qualité de l'eau, dans une exploitation agricole de Woodbury, du nord-ouest du comté de l'Iowa. 1999. Photo de Lynn Betts&#160;; Service de la protection de la nature de l'USDA (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
context_page_description: Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environmental resources management aims to ensure that ecosystem services are protected and maintained for future human generations, and also maintain ecosystem integrity through considering ethical, economic, and scientific variables. Environmental resource management tries to identify factors affected by conflicts that rise between meeting needs and protecting resources. It is thus linked to environmental protection, sustainability and integrated landscape management.
context_section_description: Environmental resource management can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. It involves the management of all components of the biophysical environment, both living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic), and the relationships among all living species and their habitats. The environment also involves the relationships of the human environment, such as the social, cultural and economic environment, with the biophysical environment. The essential aspects of environmental resource management are ethical, economical, social, and technological. These underlie principles and help make decisions.
  The concept of environmental determinism, probabilism and possibilism are significant in the concept of environmental resource management.
  Environmental resource management covers many areas in science, including geography, biology, social sciences, political sciences, public policy, ecology, physics, chemistry, sociology, psychology, and physiology. Environmental resource management as a practice and discourse (across these areas) is also the object of study in the social sciences.
caption: Improved agricultural practices such as these terraces in northwest Iowa can serve to preserve soil and improve water quality
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