2. RESOURcEs
Everything available in our
environment which can be used to
satisfy our needs, provided, it is
technologically accessible,
economically feasible & culturally
acceptable can be termed as
reasources..
4. On the basis of origin – biotic and abiotic.
On the basis of exhaustibility – renewable
and non-renewable.
On the basis of ownership – individual,
community, national and international.
On the basis of status of development –
potential, developed stock and reserves.
6. DEPLETION OF RESOURCES
Depletion
of resources for satisfying
the greed of few individuals.
Accumulation of resources in few
hands.
Indiscriminate exploitation of
resources has led to global ecological
crises.
9. LAND
UTILISATION
Forest.
Land not available for cultivation.
Other uncultivated land ( excluding fallow
land).
Fallow land.
Net sown area.
10. GENERAL LAND USE CATEGORIES 1960-61
3%
4%
6%
FOREST
4%
BARREN & WASTE LAND
18%
12%
5%
45%
5%
AREA UNDER NONAGRICULTURAL USE
PASTURES & GRAZING
LAND
MISC.TREES CROPS &
GROVES
CULTURABLE WASTE
LAND
FALLOWS OTHER THAN
CURRENT FALLOW
CURRENT FALLOW
11. GENERAL LAND USE CATEGORIES 2002-03
1%
7%
4%
4%
23%
6%
8%
43%
4%
12. Some human activities such as
deforestation, over grazing, mining &
quarrying too have contributed in land
degradation.
Mining sites are abandoned after
excavation. This leads to degradation.
13. INDIA: WASTELANDS IN 2000
6%
28%
10%
56%
WATER ERODED
AREA
FOREST DEGRADED
AREA
SALINE AND
ALKALINE LAND
WIND ERODED AREA
14. SOIL AS A RESOURCE
Soil is the most important renewable
natural resource.
It is the medium of plant growth and
supports different types of living
organisms.
It takes millions of year to form 1 cm of
soil.
