Environmental Studies

UNIT II

Natural Resources

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After studying Unit II, students will be able to:

• Define natural resources and identify problems associated with the use and extraction of natural resources in the context of environmental sciences.
• Describe the various natural resources such as forest resources, water resources, mineral resources, food resources, energy resources and land resources.
• Identify the uses and overexploitation of different resources.
• Describe case studies that underline examples of damage and exploitation of natural resources and highlight people’s struggles to protect their environmental resources.
• Explain different processes of resource extraction of water, mineral, food or forest etc.
• Identify alternate resources and ...