Man is a social being, he has always lived in society as a natural fact, needing it to be born into a family, to live as a group, to develop. Neither man nor human society can be understood or explained independently, so nature has been used, appropriated and exploited to its advantage, positively and negatively impacting the conditions of natural resources necessary for life; this relationship was characterized because man was supplied with it by what he hunted and what he collected. Today, the relationship between society and nature is an important aspect of debate in the different political, academic and everyday scenarios, among others, due to the multiple problems resulting today between the human being and the interactions that developed in the environment. The antagonism of the nature-society relationship, allows trends to emerge and new approaches seek to integrate and associate these two fundamental components for social development and the preservation of the environment, are the object of reflection and study in our academic and practical perspective on the responsible use of natural resources, that is why our motto "FIGEMPA: committed to life and development", to achieve a fair structure in which citizens feel recognized a balance between what society offers them and the cooperative effort that demands them would be the success of a social system that has not yet been achieved, for stratification in classes according to the roles of power, the generational detation of wealth, corruption institutional, legal privileges, labour apathy, tax fraud and commercial oligarchy remain as exponents of the apparent inability to successfully govern humanity. All the imperfection that is perceived induces social disenchantment, but it should not be forgotten that this same society, with all its flaws, is the one that transmits and enriches, from generation to generation, science and knowledge that sustain progress

Published: 2018-12-28

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