The role of biosphere reserves in the management of national and international ecosystems

The scientific community has an obligation to assist our decisionmakers in choosing bettween a denaturalized, defiled, and de based existence or a new birth of quality living complete with the preservation of objects of great natural beauty and esthetic appeal in addition to the restitution and rehabilitation of those renewable natural resources upon which life is dependent. There are those who say science, in an ever growing industrialized, mechanized, and computerized society, is incapable of providing the technology to clean up or polluted planet. I say the capability is there but the willingness to devote the time, to pay the price, to establish objective standards of enquiry, to identify pollution abatement as a high priority domestic and world problem is lacking. The Biosphere Reserve program is a good first step in the right direction and will become symbolic of the determination of world leaders to know more of the effects of man's intrusion into the environment. The professional resource manager should inmediately embrace an advocacy role in environmental affairs. The scientist should no longer be content with publishing the methods and conclusions of a research effort or handling his working assignment. In this modern day of better education and an ever expanding body of knowledge, the cool, calculated, objective, and expert voice of the true scientist is badly needed in molding international public opinion in the proper form and in formulating guidelines that will direct our international policy toward an improved natural environment and a quality life style for all the people of the world.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	83059 KIMBALL, T.L., 38455 Symposium on Biosphere Reserves Moscow (URSS) May 1976
Format:	biblioteca
Published:	EUA 1979
Subjects:	MONITOREO, RESERVA DE LA BIOSFERA,
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