Essay not more than 300 words : Managing Natural Resources
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Natural resources are the resources that we get from the Earth naturally. Natural resources include the flora and fauna around us, air, water, sunlight, etc. Generally, there are two types of natural resources. They are renewable like solar energy, and non-renewable natural resources like fossil fuels.
The renewable natural resource does not get depleted and gets renewed with time, while the non-renewable resources gets depleted with increasing usage. The natural resources are a gift to mankind that must be used sustainably and must be preserved for the future generation.
Explanation:
Anything in the environment ‘which can be used’ is called a ‘natural resource’. Some of our important natural resources are: Forests and Wildlife, Water, Coal and Petroleum. A system of the use of natural resources in such a way as to avoid their wastage and to use them most effective way, is called management of natural resources.
The natural resources are a ‘tool’ of (or advancement) for human beings but it should be ‘sustainable development’. Which meets the current basic human needs and also preserves the resources for the needs future generations, is called sustainable development.
And to protect the environment from harm or is said to ‘conserve’ the environment. In this chapter we will describe how to use our natural resources so as to achieve sustainable development as well as to conserve our environment.