Course Description & Objectives:
- The nature of natural resources.
- Concepts of resource management.
- Approaches in resource management (ecological, economic, technological, ethnological and sustainability approaches).
- Resource analysis for tourism. Resource appraisal (estimating demand and determining supply and implication for resource management).
- Principles of resource allocation (role of spatial organization of resources and spatial interaction processes). Perceptions, attitudes and behavior and their implications for natural resource management.
- Management of renewable resources in various environments; energy resources, wild life; soil and water conservation.
- Relevance of the concepts of land evaluation, land capability and suitability, carrying capacity, hard and risk to resource management.
- Poverty and its implications to natural resource management.
- Environmental impact assessment issues.
- Principles and ethics of natural resource conservation.
- Preservation versus conservation.
- Restoration of degraded environments.
- Resources management Law and Policy.
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