resource and development

RESOURCE AND

DEVELOPMENT

RESOURcEsEverything available in our

environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible & culturally acceptable can be termed as reasources..

INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP

HUMAN BEINGS

NATURE

TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTION

CLASSIFICATION OF RESOURCES

On the basis of origin – biotic and abiotic.

On the basis of exhaustibility – renewable and non-renewable.

On the basis of ownership – individual, community, national and international.

On the basis of status of development – potential, developed stock and reserves.

HUMAN RESOURCEHuman beings

transforms material available in our environment into resources and use them.

DEPLETION OF RESOURCESDepletion of resources for satisfying the greed of few individuals.

Accumulation of resources in few hands.

Indiscriminate exploitation of resources has led to global ecological crises.

DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCES

Sustainable development.Equitable distribution of

resources.Depletion of resources must not

be done.

LAND RESOURCES

43%

27%

30%

LAND UNDER IMPORTANT RELIEF FEATURES

PLAIN PLATEAUS MOUNTAINS

LAND UTILISATIONForest.Land not available for cultivation.Other uncultivated land

( excluding fallow land).Fallow land.Net sown area.

LAND USE PATTERN IN INDIA

18%

12%

5%

5%

45%

6%

4%4%2%

GENERAL LAND USE CATEGORIES 1960-61

FOREST BARREN & WASTE LAND

AREA UNDER NON-AGRICULTURAL USE

PASTURES & GRAZING LAND

MISC.TREES CROPS & GROVES

CULTURABLE WASTE LAND

FALLOWS OTHER THAN CURRENT FALLOW

CURRENT FALLOW

NET SOWN AREA

23%

6%

8%

3%

43%

4%

4% 7%

1%

GENERAL LAND USE CATEGORIES 2002-03

Series1

Some human activities such as deforestation, over grazing, mining & quarrying too have contributed in land degradation.Mining sites are abandoned after excavation. This leads to degradation.

LAND DEGRADATION

56%28%

6%

10%

INDIA: WASTELANDS IN 2000

WATER ERODED AREAFOREST DE-GRADED AREASALINE AND AL-KALINE LANDWIND ERODED AREA

SOIL AS A RESOURCESoil is the most important

renewable natural resource.It is the medium of plant growth

and supports different types of living organisms.

It takes millions of year to form 1 cm of soil.

CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS

Alluvial soil.Black soil.Red and yellow soil.Laterite soil.Arid soil.

SOIL EROSIONLOSS OF SOIL DUE TO SOME

NATURAL CAUSE IS TERMED AS SOIL EROSION.

INTERACTIVE CLASS

MCQ1. Which one of the following type of

resource is iron ore?a) Renewable b) Bioticc) Flowd) Non-renewable

2) In which of the following states black soil is found?

a)WBb)Gujaratc)MPd)Both c & b

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