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( Stewardship)
Stewardship is personal responsibility for taking care of another person's property or financial affairs or in religious orders taking care of finances. Historically, stewardship was the responsibility given to household servants to bring food and drinks to a castle dining hall. The term was then expanded to indicate a household employee's responsibility for managing household or domestic affairs. Stewardship later became the responsibility for taking care of passengers' domestic needs on a ship, train and airplane, or managing the service provided to diners in a restaurant. The term continues to be used in these specific ways, but it is also used in a more general way to refer to a responsibility to take care of something one does not own. Stewardship is an ethic that embodies cooperative planning and management of environmental resources with organizations, communities and others to actively engage in the prevention of loss of habitat and facilitate its recovery in the interest of long-term sustainability (Fisheries and Oceans Canada - 'Stewardship in Action' program) According to the EPA, Environmental stewardship is the responsibility for environmental quality shared by all those whose actions affect the environment. [1] Fiscal stewardship refers to the practice of assuring that current spending programs and tax policies are affordable and sustainable over time.[1] For instance, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been criticized by The New York Times for "mixed fiscal stewardship," having managed short-term crises with a deft hand, but falling short some on long-term problems.[2] David M. Walker, President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, has been a frequent commentator on the need for fiscal stewardship at the federal level, to avoid mortgaging the future of the country and of successive generations.[3]
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