Natural Resource Management

Natural resources in an economy are the crucial resources, which should be treated in a holistic manner so as to achieve many benefits. The objectives of natural resources management should be to bring about economically productive, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable uses of these resources. Natural resources could refer to all the living and nonliving endowment of the earth, but traditional usage confines the term to naturally occurring resources and systems that are useful to humans or could be under plausible technological, economic, and social circumstances. The book covers all the necessary information about basic concepts, applied approaches to natural resource management.