Managing natural resources

Synonyms:

Managing effectively reserves of raw materials

Description:

Natural resource management is generally taken to mean the focused management of particular naturally occurring useful items such as wild game, water, soil, minerals, and timber producing trees.

Broader:

Managing resources

Narrower:

Managing water
Managing wetlands
Managing natural areas
Managing energy resources
Managing marine resources
Extracting natural resources
Improving allocation of resources
Improving forest resource management
Controlling use of natural resources
Managing local agricultural resources
Planning development of natural resources
Incorporating sustainable indigenous management systems for land resources
Assuring supply of natural resources

Facilitated by:

Using environmental labelling
Assessing earth's carrying capacity
Creating geographic information systems
Improving planning and management systems
Instigating community resources management
Advancing environmentally sound technology and management systems

Problems:

Environmental colonialism
Inequitable access to natural resources
Insufficient use of natural resources
Irreversible depletion of natural capital
Natural environment degradation
Shortage of natural resources
Soil mismanagement
Unconstrained exploitation of natural resources
Undervaluation of natural capital
Unethical practices in natural resource management
Unsustainable energy consumption
Vulnerability of world genetic resources

Values:

Unnaturalness

Organizations:

Programme on Man and the Biosphere

References:

International Institute for Environment and Development / World Resources Institute: World Resources 1987: an assessment of the resource base that supports the global economy
Gupta, Anil K: Saga of a star fish: participative design of sustainable institutions for natural resource management
Repetto, Robert: World Enough and Time: successful strategies for resource management

Subjects:

Fundamental Sciences → Material
Resources → Resources
Management → Management

Type Classification:

C: Cross-sectoral strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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