The question is how to balance that with the needs of the environment.
"We are both out for the same thing, and that is to see to the human needs and also the needs of the environment".
-To what degree, if at all, should preservationists balance the needs of the environment with that of people who make their living from them?
Seven of the eight crossbenchers are demanding the federal government "pause" the Murray-Darling basin plan because, they say, it favours the needs of the environment over those of farmers, irrigators and rural communities.
The new guidelines, which came into force immediately, are built around a "presumption in favour of sustainable development", which planners are told should balance the needs of the environment, economic sustainability, social needs, good governance and sound science.
Tom Graff of Environmental Defence, a green lobby group, hails the CVPIA as the first-ever defeat for the state's powerful farm lobby.The CVPIA not only steeply raised irrigation charges to farmers; it also, for the first time, put the needs of the environment into the equation.
RTI design requires a significant understanding of the needs of the environment.
Two case studies will illustrate the competencies needed in order to meet the needs of the environment and of society.
Regular and systematic monitoring of groundwater resources is necessary for its effective management to support the water needs of the environment and its citizens.
But the reef presents a familiar conundrum for resource-rich Australia - the demands of a powerful and lucrative mining industry against the needs of the environment, our correspondent adds.
