Abstract
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and various international environmental agencies have developed the concept of ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘natural resources’ todescribe ways in which humans benefit from healthy ecosystems. Biodiversity was recognized to be of great social and economic value to both present and future generations. According to its critics, resource approach of naturemight be inadequate in protecting non-human species that are not directly used for human welfare since the economic capture gives no grounding for prohibiting or even restricting their destruction. This article aims to examine environmental challenges through contesting discourses of sustainability and to discuss implications of these conceptions for the sustainable future for human security.
Highlights
In the age of the Anthropocene, almost all the planet’s ecosystems bear the marks of our presence
The concept of ‘ecosystem services’ has been developed in order to describe ways in which humans benefit from healthy ecosystems [2]
Recent findings compiled by a study of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), indicate that those corporate chiefs who fail to make sustainable management of biodiversity part of their business plans may find themselves increasingly out of step with the market place
Summary
In the age of the Anthropocene, almost all the planet’s ecosystems bear the marks of our presence. It is recognized that in the era of the Anthropocene the population has swelled, and so did the use of many unsustainable resources, that we are disrupting the grand cycles of biology, chemistry and geology by which elements like carbon and nitrogen circulate between land, sea and atmosphere. It was argued and hoped, since humans are rational beings, we may well be able to address and effectively solve the problems of our own creation.
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