Thursday 1 February 2018

PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION


1. Polluter Pays Principle (PPP):
2. The User Pays Principle (UPP):
3. The Precautionary Principle (PP):
4. Principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency:
5. The Principle of Responsibility:
6. The Principle of Participation:
7. The Principle of Proportionality:

"We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future." ~ Thedore Roosevelt

Meaning of the above 7 Principles

1. Polluter Pays Principle (PPP)

It states that if measures are adopted to reduce pollution, the costs should be borne by the polluters. It's weighing costs of pollution prevention and control measures against benefits to encourage rational use of scarce environmental resources. The cost covers not only to compensate the victims of pollution but also the cost of restoring the environmental degradation.

2. The User Pays Principle (UPP)

The principle states that all resource users should pay for the full long-run marginal cost of the use of a resource and related services, including any associated treatment costs. Hence the levies to visit parks and enjoy ecotourism services.

3. The Precautionary Principle (PP):

The main objective of the precautionary principle is to ensure that a substance or activity posing a threat to the environment is prevented from adversely affecting the environment, even if there is no conclusive scientific proof of linking that particular substance or activity to environmental damage. Our forests are harvested at a larming rate. How about stopping this?!!

4. Principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency:



It is essential that efficiency of resources use may also be accomplished by the use of policy instruments that create incentive to minimize wasteful use. Sustainable management of natural reseources for generation to come.

5. The Principle of Responsibility:

It is the responsibility of all persons, corporations and states to maintain the ecological processes. Further, access to environmental resources carries attendant responsibilities to use them in an ecological sustainable economically efficient and socially fair manner.

6. The Principle of Participation:

It is the duty of all the persons to participate in collectively environmental decision making activities. Some participation areas are related to the use of trees and other plants, minerals, soils, fish and wildlife for purposes such as materials and food as well as for consumptive and non-consumptive recreation. Do you do your part? When you litter the environment? You don't plant trees? You dump garbage? You smoke anyhow?

7. The Principle of Proportionality:

This principle is based on the concept of balance. A balance is to maintain between the economic development on the one hand and environmental protection on the other hand. In as much as we want to be industralized we should mind the environment. Cutting trees beside the road to erect or make billboards visible is doing the utter opposite.

It is essential to adjust the interest of the people as well as the necessity to maintain the environment.

Play you part. Make the differnce you want to see.

Summary

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.



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