Among all of the discussions on environmental management, the "environment-as-a-recourse" view is the most commonly accepted.
The third category involves environmental management: "protecting the environment", and "dealing with climate change".
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will spend £15m on natural flood management projects, the environment secretary has announced.
He was responsible for legal and regulatory matters, government and industry affairs, safety, security, risk management and the environment.
In November, the University of Kisangani introduced the first master's degree course on sustainable management of the environment.
Poor management of the environment costs Nigeria $5 billion a year in ruined land and lost forests, said Muhtari Aminu-Kano, executive director of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation.
The director of incident management at the Environment Agency, John Curtin, said: "Intense, heavy rainfall this weekend brings a surface water flood risk for England throughout the weekend.
If the answer is no, they need to start to now," said Howard Pearce, head of pension fund management at the Environment Agency, which holds £2bn in assets.
Increasing food production has to go hand in hand with sensitive management of the environment so that we halt the decline in our precious bee population.
New York's most glaring weakness has been in the management of the environment and preparation to cope with storms and other natural disasters, he said.
