What Are the Different Environmental Management Resources?

Resource and environmental management refers to environmental management based on national resource policies, with the purpose of rational development and sustainable use of resources, to achieve the recovery and expansion of renewable resources, the economical use of non-renewable resources, and the development of alternative resources. For example, river basin environmental management is a typical resource and environmental management. This is because the water environment capacity of a river basin can be regarded as a kind of "resource" that can be optimized and redistributed in the face of the entire river basin according to the fairness principle of development.

Resource and Environmental Management

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Resource and environmental management refers to the rational development and sustainable use of resources in accordance with national resource policies in order to achieve sustainable development.

1. The nature of resource and environmental management

Elements of resources and environment, including the atmosphere, water, land, minerals, etc., have the characteristics of public goods to varying degrees. Under the conditions of a market economy, public welfare undertakings that involve the entire society's resources and environmental protection issues are often areas where the role of the market is defective. From an economic point of view, the market usually allocates private goods more effectively, while public goods because of their non-exclusiveness and non-competitiveness and externalities caused by the lack of property rights, make the market allocate these scarce However, there is a phenomenon of market failure in resources with public goods characteristics. For example, factories pollute rivers by discharging sewage, directly discharging harmful gases into the air, pesticides and fertilizers polluting crops and land, but this is rarely reflected in the cost of producers. ^[1]

Looking at the development of resource management and environmental protection in the past 30 years, we can see that resource and environmental management has developed to a deeper and wider scope. The concept of environment has expanded from water, air, soil and other natural worlds to humans, wildlife and even the world. Technically, it has shifted from end-of-life treatment to pollution prevention, and has evolved from simple treatment to production processes. The continuous development and improvement of management methods reflects the latest developments in the environmental field and meets the requirements of international environmental protection sustainable development strategies. ^[1]

To solve China's current resource management problems, on the one hand, we must fully understand the situation of China's current system, and on the other hand, we must study and learn from foreign experiences. Since the concept of sustainable development was proposed, many countries have chosen the direction of centralized management and single decision-making, guidance, control and execution center in environmental management, and the power of resource and environmental management is increasingly concentrated in a government department. The more concentrated the central government. To solve the shortcomings of China's current resource and environmental management system, it needs to be improved in the following aspects: ^[2]

First, gradually strengthen the functions of the national environmental protection administrative department.

In order to strengthen the national function of environmental management, first of all, the important role of environmental protection in national management should be set, and the management level of environmental protection should be improved. Through legislation, make clear legal provisions on the establishment, status, nature, operation, and changes of the national environmental protection administrative department, in order to maintain the stability of the national environmental protection administrative department and the continuity of environmental management work, and strengthen the national environmental protection Administrative functions of administrative departments.

Second, strengthen the horizontal connection of resources and environmental protection departments at the same level.

The current system of multi-sector management of resources and the environment has both objective reasons for the diversity of resources and the environment, as well as the existing laws and regulations. It is difficult to establish a specialized resource and environment management department. The practical method is to improve the current legislation and unified supervision and management. The functions are given to the competent administrative department of environmental protection, and each resource management department accepts the supervision of the unified supervision and management department when it comes to the management of resource protection, and clarifies the department's mutual coordination, restriction procedures and measures.

Third, improve the guidance and supervision functions of higher-level resources and environment authorities to lower-level authorities.

At present, in the vertical management of environmental protection, China is a management system mainly based on regional management, which is not conducive to restricting "local protectionism." It is necessary to pass legislation to determine the methods and procedures for the guidance and supervision of lower-level departments in charge of environmental and environmental protection And relief measures to strengthen vertical resource and environmental management.