Identification of Materials for Comfortable Living in Villages and Towns

Depletion of resources, accumulation of resources in few hands, societal divide between rich and poor, global ecological crises

Human beings used resources indiscriminately

Global warming, ozone layer depletion, environmental pollution, land degradation

<p>For sustained quality of life and global peace</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The future of our planet is in danger</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>For sustainable existence of all forms of life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Development should take place without damaging the environment, and development in the present should not compromise with the needs of the future generations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agenda 21 is the declaration signed by world leaders in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Planning is a widely accepted strategy for the judicious use of resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Rio Convention endorsed the global Forest Principles and adopted Agenda 21 for achieving Sustainable Development in the 21st century.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One major objective is that every local government should draw its own local Agenda 21.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the basis of origin, exhaustibility, ownership, and status of development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Resources are not free gifts of nature because they are a function of human activities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Biotic and abiotic resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Resources can be classified as renewable or non-renewable based on whether they can be replenished within a human lifespan or not.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human beings interact with nature through technology to transform materials into resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individual, community, national, and international ownership.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Net sown area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physical factors such as topography, climate, soil types, and human factors like population density, technological capability, culture, and traditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>(a) Current fallow - left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year, (b) Other than current fallow - left uncultivated for the past 1 to 5 agricultural years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>(a) Permanent pastures and grazing land, (b) Land under miscellaneous tree crops groves, (c) Culturable waste land (left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because land use reporting for most of the north-east states except Assam has not been done fully, and some areas of Jammu and Kashmir occupied by Pakistan and China have not been surveyed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Old alluvial (Bangar) and new alluvial (Khadar)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Capacity to hold moisture and richness in soil nutrients like calcium carbonate, magnesium, potash, and lime.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Black soil</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On crystalline igneous rocks in areas of low rainfall in eastern and southern parts of the Deccan plateau.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Due to diffusion of iron in crystalline and metamorphic rocks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tropical and subtropical climate with alternate wet and dry season.</p> Signup and view all the answers