Conservation As Ethic Conservation’s goals include protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services and protecting biological diversity. A range of values underlie conservation, which can be guided by biocentrism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism and sentientism. There has recently been a movement towards evidence-based conservation which calls for greater...
Water For Life The human being’s biological need for water is modest. A dozen or so cupfuls a day are all that are required for survival. There are about 1,360 million cubic kilometres of water on the earth. If all the water, on the planet; from oceans, lakes, rivers, the...
The Evolution Of The Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920 is an online exhibition from the Library of Congress‘ American Memory series. It documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America’s natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts,...
Man And Ecology: An Islamic Perspective This article covers Man And Ecology: An Islamic Perspective. Environmental Crisis “When the earth is shaken with a (violent) shaking, And the earth reveals what burdens her, And man says: What has befallen her? On that day she shall tell her story….” (Qur’an 99:1-4)...
Islam And The Protection Of The Environment This article covers Islam And The Protection Of The Environment. Introduction The Holy Qur’an states that Man is the noblest of created beings: Man is God’s vicegerent on His earth; it was to Man that God made the Angels prostrate themselves; God breathed...
Islam & the Environment This article covers Islam & the Environment. What is expected of a viceroy, a trustee or ruler? If those over whom one commands power are killed without cause, have their homes polluted heedlessly with toxic wastes, and have deformities and diseases resulting from the careless and...
Environmental Epidemiology Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illness, injury, developmental abnormalities, or death. These factors may be naturally occurring or may be introduced...
Difference Between Conservation And Preservation Conservation and preservation are both methods that are very much necessary to safeguard the future of certain vital phenomena of the world such as the environment, natural energies among other things. However, sometimes these two words have been seen to be used interchangeably which should...
Conservation vs. Preservation and Natural Regulation Abstract: Preservation and Conservation are two different theories regarding the management of natural resources. In this paper, I examine the differences between the two theories, and discuss the manner in which the concept of natural regulation is featured. Conservation versus Preservation In the era...
Basics: Conservation vs. Preservation This article covers Basics on Conservation vs. Preservation. Within discussions of environmental issues, there are two broad approaches one can take. On one hand there are those who argue that the goal should be the creation and preservation of wilderness free of human influence. This view...