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What capacity the land?
| Author: |
Budd, William W. |
| Date: |
1992 |
| Periodical: |
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation |
| Abstract: |
The old environmental management paradigms based on reductionistic perspectives have not served us well. Our problems are more complex because of our limited scientific and technical knowledge, more costly because of the scale of perturbation, and more controversial because of the large uncertainties. In looking for new alternatives, "the invaluable insight of the ecological perspective;" as McHarg so succinctly phrased it, is now being reexamined. We are beginning to talk of pollution prevention as opposed to pollution reduction and of such ideas as "sun-setting" chemicals and products. Increased interest in growth management and discussions of sensitive-areas restoration, in addition to conservation, are all signs of a desire among many people to rethink how resources are used now and in the future.
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