What is the connection between environmental sustainability and economic sustainability and relationship between ecological resilience and biodiversity?
Economic sustainability is all about giving people what they want without compromising the quality of life, especially in the developing world. Environmental sustainability: It is the process of meeting the needs of air, food, water, and shelter as well as ensuring that the environment is neither affected nor polluted. Biologically diverse communities are also more likely to contain species that confer resilience to that ecosystem because as a community accumulates species, there is a higher chance of any one of them having traits that enable them to adapt to a changing environment.
Conserving and restoring natural spaces, and the biodiversity they contain, is essential for limiting emissions and adapting to climate impacts. Biological diversity or biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth, in all its forms, from genes and bacteria to entire ecosystems such as forests or coral reefs. Biologically diverse communities are also more likely to contain species that confer resilience to that ecosystem because as a community accumulates species, there is a higher chance of any one of them having traits that enable them to adapt to a changing environment. Greater biodiversity in ecosystems, species, and individuals leads to greater stability. As species with high genetic diversity and many populations that are adapted to a wide variety of conditions are more likely to be able to weather disturbances, disease, and climate change. Ecology: the scientific study of the processes influencing natural life and habitats. Ecosystem: a natural environment which includes the flora and fauna that live and interact within that environment. Biodiversity: the variety of natural life and habitats on Earth. Ecology is the study of the relationship between living organisms and their environment. An ecosystem is a place, such as a rotting log, a forest, or even a schoolyard, where interactions between living and non-living things occur. In the coping stage diversity is helpful for resilient coping by constructing a greater variety of interpretations for adverse situations. Researcher calls this sense making. The more perspectives represented on a team, the more discussion arises about how to cope with the threat. Specifically, the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning were stronger in stressful environments than in more favorable environments. Therefore, biodiversity contributes to buffering ecosystem functions across a range of stressful conditions associated with current and future global change scenarios. Ecology and Conservation Biology are closely-related branches of biology. Ecology studies interactions between groups of organisms and among those groups and their environments. The questions of Conservation Biology arise from efforts to preserve groups of organisms or other biological units like ecosystems. Even determining, the structure and functions of ecological components populations, com- munities and ecosystems. The capacity to weather a disturbance without loss is defined as resistance, whereas resilience is the capacity to recover from a disturbance after incurring losses, which may be considerable. Economic sustainability is all about giving people what they want without compromising the quality of life, especially in the developing world. Environmental sustainability: It is the process of meeting the needs of air, food, water, and shelter as well as ensuring that the environment is neither affected nor polluted. In the long term, environmental problems can have a severe impact on human life, both physically and mentally, as well as disrupting economic stability. Therefore, it is essential to implement environmental economics to reduce environmental problems and create a more sustainable society. Environment provides land, water, air, energy resources, coal, oil, forests, minerals and metals and so many other natural resources which are essential for the economic development of the economy.Economic sustainability refers to practices that support long-term economic growth without negatively impacting social, environmental, and cultural aspects of the community. Sustainable development aims at promoting the kind of development that minimizes environmental problems and meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of the future generation to meet their own needs.
This is an interesting paper on the Topic by Justice Mensah (2019) Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pillars, and implications for human action: Literature review, Cogent Social Sciences, 5:1, Available on: Article Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pilla...
"The paper contributes to the discourse on sustainable development (SD) by clarifying further this concept and/or paradigm, and its implications for human thinking and actions in the quest for sustainable human development. This is done through literature review. The paper finds that the entire issue of SD centres around inter- and intragenerational equity anchored essentially on three distinct but interconnected pillars, namely the environment, economy, and society. Decisionmakers need to be constantly mindful of the relationships, complementarities, and tension among these pillars and ensure responsible human behaviour and actions at the international, national, community and individual levels to uphold and promote the tenets of SD in the interest of human development. More needs to be done by the duty-bearers (the UN, governments, private sector and civil society) in terms of resource management, policies, education, and regulation to ensure that everyone is sustainable development aware, conscious, cultured and compliant."