Biological resources provided by the Earth play essential role in economic and social development of the humans. Therefore, it is of great importance to acknowledge an enormous value of biological diversity both to present and future generations. However, ecosystems and species have never been under such threat as they are nowadays. Loss of species caused by human activities continues at an alarming rate (CBD, 2014). As a reaction to the seriousness of the problem, in November 1988 the United Nations
Sustainable Development: The Interdependence between Nature and Society Goodland and Daly (1996) state that there is a unification between social, environmental and economic sustainability and the sustainable development thereof. Sustainable development can be defined as development that allows for the needs of the present generations to be met, without depleting our natural resources and thus conceding the needs of future generations (World Commission on Environment and Development). This refers
towards planned development of urban areas is of pivotal importance as large section of the population residing in metropolitan region of the country. In this context, urban local government institutions/municipalities are the key governing organizations constituted for the development of urban areas by ensuring basic infrastructure and services as per the norms to the citizens. One needs to acknowledge the words of the U.N Secretary General in this regard who believes that a sustainable future of cities–“will
Sustainable development is to harmonize the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the natural environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future.The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in 1987 relased the Burndtland Commission Report,title being “Our Common Future”,which placed the concept of sustainable development on the internacional agenda,where it was envisaged that human survival and well being depends on succeed in
Claudia Mariana Mungiu-Pupazan, PhD Lecturer “Constantin Brancusi” University of Tirgu-Jiu Abstract: Territorial cohesion, a concept that has gained important interest, implies the recognition of territorial diversity and the need to build on this diversity in order to generate development. Territorial cohesion relates fundamentally to policy coherence as it is related to territory; it is an added value of cohesion policy. The ratification of Lisbon Treaty represents the moment when “Territorial
of biological diversity in the last quarter of 20th Century more than ever before for the sustainability of life on earth. Biological diversity is also understood as a source of food, good health and its indispensability for human development. The pace of destruction of biological diversity due to different anthropogenic reasons and rapid advancements in bio-prospecting has triggered countless concerns amongst the global leaders and policy makers. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was negotiated
estimate of the value of Orang Asli traditional ecological knowledge among the public in the Peninsular Malaysia. This was achieved through the application of a choice experiment (CE), which was utilised to directly assess the economic value of the sustainable management of natural resource that are provided by the Orang Asli. The remainder of the paper is organised as follows. The theoretical background is outlined in section two. In section three we describe the data used in terms of CE and model results
In order to explain how evolution generates biodiversity through the process of natural selection and speciation, we must first understand and define those terms. Oxford dictionaries define natural selection as "the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring." Speciation is "the process in which new genetically distinct species evolve usually as a result of genetic isolation from the main population." (Speciation, 2008) Biodiversity is
endorsed by National Land Council (NLC) has established Permanent Reserved Forests (PRF) (Tempatan, 2010) . The objectives of NFP is conserve and manage the nation’s forest based on the principles of sustainable management and to protect the environment as well as to conserve biological diversity, genetic resources, and to enhance research and education in Malaysia. According to this policy mangrove forests, both peat swamps and saltwater swamps are identified as permanent reserved forest (Tempatan
the world. Out of these, about 1.4 million species have been identified so far. Each species is adapted to live in specific environment, from mountain peaks to the depth of seas, from polar ice caps to tropical rain forests and deserts. All this diversity of life is confined to only about one kilometre thick layer of lithosphere hydrosphere and atmosphere which form biosphere. Though the study of environment and ecology is quite old, the term biodiversity has been introduced by Walter Rosen in 1986