Resources and Development

The process of transformation of things Can you identify and name the various items available in our environment involves an used in making life comfortable in our villages and towns. List the items and name the inter...

The process of transformation of things Can you identify and name the various items available in our environment involves an used in making life comfortable in our villages and towns. List the items and name the interactive relationship between nature, material used in their making. technology and institutions. Human beings interact with nature through technology and create institutions to accelerate their Everything available in our environment economic development. which can be used to satisfy our needs, Do you think that resources are free provided, it is technologically accessible, gifts of nature as is assumed by many? economically feasible and culturally They are not. Resources are a function of acceptable can be termed as ‘Resource’. human activities. Human beings themselves are essential components of resources. They transform material available in our environment into resources and use them. These resources can be classified in the following ways – (a) On the basis of origin – biotic and abiotic (b) On the basis of exhaustibility – renewable and non-renewable (c) On the basis of ownership – individual, community, national and international Fig. 1.1: Interdependent relationship between (d) On the basis of status of development – nature, technology and institutions potential, developed stock and reserves. Fig. 1.2: Classification of resources Reprint 2024-25