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There should be a Dominant Perspective in Managing Resources
In managing the natural resource the United States, the country should have a dominant perspective for directing and promoting the management of the environment. This is because the dominant perspective will create a sense of unison and concerted efforts in the management of the country’s vast natural resources. While many people may argue a dominant perspective will limit the people involves, I think such a perspective will bring the different stakeholders together. Such a dominant perspective will lead to unison between the American Indian environmental values and the values of the dominant American culture.
There should have a dominant perspective to create order in the management of the natural resources I the United States. This will solve the challenge of unorganized efforts that create disorder in the very organization that should work orderly. The lack of order is created because of the different values that relate to caring for Mother Nature. For example, there are American Indian tribes, who view nature differently from the values adopted by U.S. Latinos toward nature (Hitchcock, 2002). These still differ from the white American perspective. This situation necessitates the need to have a dominant perspective that will organize all the values towards a common front in the country.
Moreover, there should have a dominant perspective, which will create a richer perspective of caring for natural resources. This is because the perspective will compose of the various values. For instance, the Native American Indians apply their philosophies and culture to not only care for the natural resources, but also respect nature (Aiken, 2001). Having dominant perspective will therefore take these valuable values and join them in a national ideology of caring and managing natural resources.
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Aiken, C. (2001). Blacks in the plantation south. In Homelands: A Geography of Culture and Place Across America. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapter 4, pp. 53-72
Hitchcock, J. (2002). Moving toward a multiracial future. In Lifting the White Vail: An Exploration of White American Culture in a Multiracial Context. Roselle, New Jersey: Crandall, Dostie, and Douglass Books, Inc. Chapter 10, pp. 201-221