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Environmental Resources and Sustainable Development

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Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education

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Environmental resources and sustainable development are related to the understanding of present limits in the current models of production and consumption that undermine the environment capacity to absorb impacts promoted by human activities. In this way, it is increasingly necessary to use the natural resources for the promotion of sustainability, since they are fundamental to guarantee the environmental and life quality of the populations (Kates et al. 2005).

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Natural resources have been suffering from excessive degradation, and consequences of all this pressure on environment result in severe effects with the possibility of being irreversible. According to Cruz et al. (2008), studies have listed a number of causes for environmental degradation, placing emphasis on the disorderly and unconscious human actions which contribute to significant changes in natural environments making them very vulnerable and less resilient. Thus, it is noteworthy that

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Correspondence to Adriana Aparecida Magri da Silva .

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Silva, A.A.M.d., Silva, G.D., Machado, M.K. (2019). Environmental Resources and Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_171

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