Natural resources, meaning, types and conservation
- 1. Lecture plan for the day • Natural Resources: meaning and definition • Classification of natural resources
- 2. Natural resources Human Needs and Wants (food, cloth, shelter, health, education etc.) NATURAL RESOURCES Nature Economic Activities
- 3. Concept of Natural Resource • Endowment (Nature’s gift to mankind / natural stock) • Potentiality (Endowments are converted to potentiality when man come to know its utility) • Resource (When potentialities are brought into actual use to satisfy human needs, it becomes resource)
- 4. Natural Resources Based on origin Biotic/ Organic Abotic / Inorganic Frequency of occurrence Universal Localized Rare CLASSIFICATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES
- 5. Basis of classification of Natural Resource Types of natural resources Examples Based on origin Biotic resources Animals, birds, forest A biotic Resources Minerals, water Based on frequency of occurrence Universal Sunlight, water Localized Minerals (coal, petroleum) Rare Diamond, gold
- 6. Natural Resources Based on durability and renewability Renewable Auto- renewable Renewable with human efforts Non- renewable Recyclable Non-recyclable Based on Ownership World Resources National Resources Individual / Personal resources CLASSIFICATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES
- 7. Basis of classification of Natural Resource Types of natural resources Sub-types Examples Based on ownership World resources -- Sunlight, Water National Resource -- Forests, Minerals Individual /personal resources -- Landholding, personal property Based on durability and renewability Renewable resources Automatically renewable Sunlight, Water Renewable with human efforts Forests Non-Renewable resources Recyclable Metals Non- Recyclable Fossil fuels
- 8. Conservation –Latin words ‘con’- together ‘servare’ - keep Conservation – to keep together The optimum utilization of natural resources for national development and ensuring availability of resources for future generation. The wise use of natural resource, reduction in waste, improving the efficiency Proper management of natural resources to prevent its exploitation, destruction and degradation.
- 9. 1. Judicial / wise use of natural resources 2. Substitution 3. Recycling 4. Innovations and research 5. Minimize waste 6. Enforcement of laws 7. Public awareness 8. Government policy of resource conservation
- 10. Natural resources are the substances which has capability to satisfy human needs and wants Endowment – all substances as the gift of nature Potentialities – endowments of which utility is known to human being Resource - Potentialities turn to resource when they are actually used to satisfy human needs.