, Class 10th - Geography
Resources and development
, Material which satisfy our needs, provided it is technologically accessible,
Resources economically feasible and culturally acceptable.
Classification On the basis of
1. Origin (Biotic and Abiotic)
2. Exhaustibility (Renewable and Non Renewable)
3. Ownership (Individual, community, National, International)
4. Status of development (Potential, developed,stock, Reserves)
Development of Resources Need? Vital for human survival but there are some issues
Depletion, Accumulation in few hands( Rich and Poor) and global ecological crises Solution
ஃ Earth summit, 1992 gave the concept of Agenda 21.
More than 100 heads of states met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for addressing
Sustainable development
urgent problems of environmental protection and socio-economic development
at the global level.
It aims at achieving global sustainable development through combating
environmental damage, poverty, disease by global cooperation.
, Resource planning Need? Resources are unevenly distributed
1. Identification of Resources, 2. Evolving a planning structure to use them, 3. Matching
How it takes place in India?
resource development plan with National Development plan.
Conservation of Resources: Technology, Colonialism and need for conservation → Gandhian Idea
Land Resources India has varied relief features with different uses.
Forests, Land not for cultivation (Barren land, roads, factories etc.)
Land use pattern in India other uncultivated land (Pasture land, under miscellaneous trees
● Permanent pasture culturable wasteland) fallow lands and Net Sown Area
● Variation in net sown area
● Forest area in the country is
far lower than the desired 33
per cent
Resources and development
, Material which satisfy our needs, provided it is technologically accessible,
Resources economically feasible and culturally acceptable.
Classification On the basis of
1. Origin (Biotic and Abiotic)
2. Exhaustibility (Renewable and Non Renewable)
3. Ownership (Individual, community, National, International)
4. Status of development (Potential, developed,stock, Reserves)
Development of Resources Need? Vital for human survival but there are some issues
Depletion, Accumulation in few hands( Rich and Poor) and global ecological crises Solution
ஃ Earth summit, 1992 gave the concept of Agenda 21.
More than 100 heads of states met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for addressing
Sustainable development
urgent problems of environmental protection and socio-economic development
at the global level.
It aims at achieving global sustainable development through combating
environmental damage, poverty, disease by global cooperation.
, Resource planning Need? Resources are unevenly distributed
1. Identification of Resources, 2. Evolving a planning structure to use them, 3. Matching
How it takes place in India?
resource development plan with National Development plan.
Conservation of Resources: Technology, Colonialism and need for conservation → Gandhian Idea
Land Resources India has varied relief features with different uses.
Forests, Land not for cultivation (Barren land, roads, factories etc.)
Land use pattern in India other uncultivated land (Pasture land, under miscellaneous trees
● Permanent pasture culturable wasteland) fallow lands and Net Sown Area
● Variation in net sown area
● Forest area in the country is
far lower than the desired 33
per cent
