Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences in 2025
2026-02-06
Balancing Ecosystems and Economies: Advances in Environmental Resource Management under Sustainable Development Goals
Authors
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Qing Wang
School of Tourism and E-commerce, Baise University, Baise 533000, China
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Jingjing Chai
School of Business Administration, Baise University, Baise 533000, China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i1.13044Abstract
Expanding economic potential and protecting the environment, while facing mounting climate and biodiversity stress, is becoming the challenge of environmental resource management. This review explores developments and ongoing obstacles in six areas of resource of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) that include water; land, soils, and food systems; forests and terrestrial carbon biodiversity governance; oceans, coasts, and fisheries; biodiversity connectivity; and extractives and energy-transition supply chains. Most of the interventions continue to ignore ecological thresholds, accruing effects, and cross-system feedbacks, whereas monitoring systems focus on measures of activity rather than confirmed results. Conversely, sustained improvement is most frequently associated with integrated governance, which incorporates open measurement, implementation, rights-based participation, and fair distribution of benefits. Local conservation is often overwhelmed by market forces of demand and structural forces, including subsidies, supply chains, and investment in infrastructure, which fail to stop leakage or war, unless accountability mechanisms are in place. Climate change also aggravates set baselines and puts forward the importance of adaptive regulation, spatial planning, and diversified portfolios, which combine engineered reliability with ecosystem resilience. The review brings out current SDG priorities, which include outcome-based indicators, causal evaluation, governance structures that enhance legitimacy, and transition planning that harmonizes the mineral sourcing, renewable deployment, biodiversity, and water limits. Combined, these observations indicate that striking the balance between ecology and economy is possible when ecological boundaries are under consideration as binding constraints and equity is perceived as a source of sustainability.
Keywords:
Sustainable Development Goals; Environmental Resource Management; Ecosystem Services; Governance and Equity; Climate AdaptationReferences
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Wang, Q., & Chai, J. (2026). Balancing Ecosystems and Economies: Advances in Environmental Resource Management under Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences, 8(1), 242–276. https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i1.13044
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