Students will learn key concepts in National Resource Management and Human ecology, including types and importance of natural resources, culture, environmental protection or degradation. Students should also cover issues related to human needs and effect on the environment and the importance of common resources in Uganda and East African region. Others are the tragedy of the common resources debate amidst the present economic realities e.g. Privatization. In addition, issues related to anxiety due to myths about the imminent commons extinction. Others are natural resource-based livelihoods: fishing, pastoral life styles, and management of natural resources including national policies.