Mismanagement of environmental demand

Sectoralism and separation of conservation and development undermine attempts to manage demands on the environment. Most efforts to develop resources, maintain the resource base, and protect the environment, are pursued separately in uncoordinated and narrowly sectoral ways.

Pollution control and environmental protection rely heavily on regulation of outputs, rather than on incentives to manage inputs better. As populations and economies grow, governmental micro-management of pollution and other harmful impacts of resource development is becoming increasingly expensive, cumbersome and impractical.

1. Mismanagement
2. Lack of environmental conservation
3. Ineffectiveness

1. Reduction in demand for primary commodities due to technological change

1. Meaningless conservation status
2. Inevitable destruction of humanity by the natural environment
3. Indiscriminate economic development
4. Failure of development programmes
5. Eutrophication
6. Environmental warfare
7. Environmental pollution
8. Environmental degradation of desert oases
9. Destruction of wildlife habitats
10. Destruction of environmental oxygen
11. Degradation of the environment through the destruction of species
12. Degradation of mountain environment by leisure activities

1. Unbridled competition in capitalist systems
2. Conflicting concepts of conservation

1. World conservation
2. Training in water management
3. Sharing international water resources
4. Preempting abusive use of non-renewable resources
5. Planning residential transport systems
6. Managing water
7. Managing tropical production forests
8. Managing the environment
9. Managing pastoral common property regimes
10. Managing municipal water supply
11. Managing local agricultural resources
12. Managing groundwater
13. Managing fresh water use
14. Managing environmental demand
15. Managing degraded river basins
16. Managing agricultural lands
17. Increasing effectiveness of conservation programmes
18. Increasing community management of forests
19. Ensuring comprehensive system of protected areas
20. Creating conservation programmes
21. Coordinating research planning
22. Conserving

1. Overdemand
2. Mismanagement
3. Ineffectiveness
4. Effectiveness
5. Conservative
6. Conservation