Ecology in Sustainable Development

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Ecology in Sustainable Development

The interdependence and interaction between organisms and their surrounding are referred to as ecology. Ecology can be categorized into; organism, population, community, and ecosystem. Ecology is a big determinant of the well-being of a human being. The interdependence of nature and human beings is key for a clean environment, food production, and sustaining climatic changes through biodiversity. The main functions of ecology are: to conserve and manage natural resources such as agroforestry, fisheries, and agro ecology, managing urban ecology, and maintaining human social interaction (Grosvenor).

The relationship between sustainable development and ecology has raised a lot of interest as in recent times development of both infrastructure and social structure is detrimental to the environment and ecology at large. In the World watch institute’s States of the world ( Norton) Lester R. Brows explains that in the twenty-first century will be hard to manage the large population as and also manage the environment with its rate of degradation as stated in the Taking sides book. This is evident from the rate at which human beings are determined to destroy nature for the sake of self-fulfillment or agendas. Some of the environmental threats posed by human beings are Deforestation with no afforestation for the sake of settlement or investment, the release of toxic gases to the air polluting air as a result there is the rise in global warming and the development of chronic diseases like Asthma, water sources pollution by spilling of oil in them or damping in them resulting to the death of living organisms in the water sources and posing a threat to human beings using the water. All these factors have resulted in the deterioration of the ecosystem affecting the ecology. Ecology being the main part of human life deserves to be given enough attention to avoid extinct of some species as we consider sustainability.

Sustainable development is the use of environmental resources without causing environmental negative effects. The actions of human beings as of now should ensure that the future generations enjoy the same from nature. Society and the economy both depend on ecology. In 1980, there was the publishing of the World Conservation Strategies (The global battle can be won or lost in cities) which is a program that would ensure that precautionary principles are upheld where threats on the ecology are suspected (Adeyeye, 109). The program was to ensure that there is the total assurance of environmental safety before a step towards the environment is taken, there is intergenerational equity as the future generation deserves as much a good environment as now. There was a concern about wildlife conservation which is a main contribution to the economy. The concerns led to the development of the world environmental conservation foundation in 1966 which was meant to look at hindrances to ecologically sustainable development like nuclear weapons, rapid population growth, and natural resources depletion which are still a problem to date and get their solutions (Tisdell). Jeremy in the Taking chances books says that the lifestyle of people. Some solutions given are learning more about sustainable resources like solar lighting and wind-generated electricity. Also using proper farming techniques can be adopted to minimize pollution of soil and water from chemicals, using the environment in a balanced way( as explained by Francesca Calabria in the video). Coming up with organizations and institutions like the United Nations Environmental Program which came up with the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), which assists in managing and campaigning for environmental matters and instituting global laws that manage both the earth and mankind were seen as ways to facilitate ecologically sustainable development (Tilden, 68).

Human beings should put extra effort into conserving the ecosystem as there are no human beings with no good environment and it’s only human beings who can ensure that population, ecosystem, organism, and any other ecological factor are enjoyed by the future generation.

Works Cited

ADEYEYE, Biliamin Adekunle. “African Indigenous Knowledge and Practices and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals:: Exploring its Uniqueness for Quality Knowledge Sharing.” Journal of Humanities and Education Development (JHED) 1.4 (2019): 147-152.

Tilden, Freeman. Interpreting our heritage. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Tisdell, Clement A. “An economist’s critique of the World Conservation Strategy, with examples from the Australian experience.” Environmental Conservation 10.1 (1983): 43-52.

Tisdell, Clement Allan, ed. Economics of environmental conservation. Vol. 1. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.