X CBSE- Social Science “ Resources and Developments”

Resources and Development

What is a Resource?

Everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable can be termed as ‘Resource’.

(TEC)

The process of transformation of things available in our environment involves an interdependent relationship between nature, technology and institutions.

Human beings interact with nature through technology and create institutions to accelerate their economic development.

Do you think that resources are free gifts of nature as is assumed by many?

They are not.

Resources are a function of human activities.

Human beings themselves are essential components of resources.

They transform material available in our environment into resources and use them.

Classification of Resources:

These resources can be classified in the following ways –

(OEOD) (BA, NR, NICI, RPD)

(a) On the basis of origin — biotic and abiotic

(b) On the basis of exhaustibility — renewable and non-renewable

© On the basis of ownership — individual, community, national and international

(d) On the basis of the status of development — potential developed stock and reserves.