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This is a resource management modus operandi that seeks to ensure that any harvesting or use/consumption of natural resources is as sustainable as it can ever be. Therefore, the major goal is to restock the resources at the same pace as they are depleted. Even though this goal may not be very viable, sustainable management can often help lengthen the natural resources for as long as possible for example with what happens with fossil fuels. However, fisheries and forests, which are largely considered to be renewable resources, can be sustained easily.

For this to be a success, the management technique often pay close attention to two different but major contributing factors – the rate of use/consumption and the rate at which the resources are replenished. Many a times, the main goal is to ensure that these two major factors remain at a perfect equilibrium. Important to keep in mind is that in the event where there is a superfluous of a particular resource, the rate of consumption is highly likely to outpace the rate of replenishment.

Even though the rate of consumption often cannot be slashed very easily, creating a sustainable society is possible because there are specific regulations that will help foster resource replenishment. For instance, many sustainable management policies expect that if a tree is cut down in the forest, it has to be replanted. Even though this may not be the most perfect situation for the natural environment, such sustainability projects will eventually lead to a sustainable practice, particularly if one tree is cut down but a replacement of more than one tree is made.

In other cases of empowering a sustainable society, replenishment may be less of an option hence the only viable sustainable management practice that can be put into effect is imposing a harvest or consumption limit. A perfect example is in the case of fishing whereby a certain species of fish has been depleted and needs to be rebuilt. In such a case scenario, concerned authorities will be forced to impose catch limits. However, there would be no accurate way of telling exactly how many fish anglers have harvested the species of fish on any given day.

In other cases, the rate of restocking and consumption can be regulated by use of sustainable management policies. A perfect example of this is when dealing with freshwater fish species. Most authorities today will augment the imposed limit on catching some famous sportfish with a program that will restock some water bodies with the same.

Regardless of the strategy selected, the practice of sustainable management is normally funded using different methods. For example, in the case of a company using trees for its production purposes, the company may be forced to pay directly for part of the resources harvested. Hunting and fishing license fees charged to people who do it also help in funding sustainability projects. Another very common way of funding these management techniques is through the general tax revenue that the government collects.