Resources are gifts of nature that humans have used indiscriminately, leading to depletion of resources, accumulation of waste, and an ecological crisis. The 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit and Agenda 21 aimed to address these issues through sustainable development of resources.

1. Resources and
development

3. Create
Interacted
with

12. Development of resources
Resources are free gifts of nature. Human beings
used resources indiscriminately and this has led to
the following major problems
❖ Depletion of resources
❖ Accumulation of resources
❖ Indiscriminate exploitation of resources has led
to global ecological crisis

14. RIO de Janeiro Earth Summit,1992

15. Agenda 21

24. SOIL
PROFILE