Bangladesh has several key natural resources. Water resources include numerous rivers that provide drinking, irrigation, and transportation. Land resources consist of fertile soil, though much of the country experiences flooding. Mineral resources include natural gas, with over 20 trillion cubic feet of reserves. Renewable resources include solar and wind power potential. Coastal resources along the Bay of Bengal include fisheries and the world's longest beach at Cox's Bazar. The Sundarbans mangrove forest is an important ecosystem. Overall, Bangladesh's natural resources have historically supported agriculture and are increasingly fueling industry and development.

1. Natural Resource
Profile of Bangladesh
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3. What is Natural Resource?
 Resources or natural resources are any form of matter or energy obtained
from the physical environment that meet human needs.
 This definition of natural resources is not as simple as it appears. Most
resources are created by human ingenuity. Oil was once a useless fluid until
humans learned how to locate it, extract it from the ground, and separate it by
distillation into various components such as gasoline, home heating oil, and road
tar.

4. Natural & Environmental Resources
Secure needs of
population
Secure desires on
comfort or higher
level of living
Encourage population
freedom for
migration
Resources
Environmental
resources
Natural
resources
Not possible
to measure
economical value
Possible
to measure
economical value

5. Classification of Natural Resources

6. Classification of Natural Resources
RENEWABLE AND NON RENEWABLE RESOURCES
 Renewable resources are generally living
resources (fish, and forests, for
example), which can restock (renew)
themselves if they are not overharvested.
 Non-renewable resources is a natural
resource that cannot be re-made or re-
grown. Often fossil fuels, such as coal,
petroleum and natural gas are
considered non-renewable resources.

7. Classification of Natural Resources
ACTUAL VS. POTENTIAL RESOURCES
 On the basis of their stages of developments, resources can be
classified into both Actual and Potential resources:
 The resources held actually in stock are called Actual
resources.
 Even the actual source of resources may not be possible to be
used to their full.
 The portion that can be used profitably with the help of
available technology is termed as Potential resourcs.
 The size and quantity of a potential resource may change with
changes in technology and time.

8. Classification of Natural Resources
BIOTIC VS. ABIOTIC NATURAL RESOURCES
Based on origin or source-
 Biotic resources are derived from animals and plants (living world).
 Abiotic resouces are derived from the non-living world e.g. land,
water, and air.
 Mineral and power resources can also be abiotic resources some are
derived from nature.

9. Classification of Natural Resources
UBIQUITOUS VS. LOCALIZED NATURAL RESOURCES
Based on Distribution-
Ubiquitous Resources are found everywhere (e.g., air, light, water).
Localized Resources are found only in certain parts of the world (e.g.,
copper and iron ore, geothermal power).
Ubiquitous Resources Localized Resources

10. Natural Resources and Nations Status
 A nation's natural resources often
determine its wealth and status in the
world economic system, by determining
its political influence.
 Developed nations are those which are
less dependent on natural resources for
wealth, due to their greater reliance on
infrastructural capital.
For example, the United States used coal as an
export in the early 1900s, and also as a main
resource fuel in key industries for production.
Eventually, as transportation costs went down
with time, minerals used as resources became
commodities and were traded at world prices.

11. World Reserve & Consumption of Natural Resources(NR)

12. Use of Natural Resources (Ethical)
• As the provision of natural resources decreases, prices go up,
unemployment climbs, and it is the availability of natural
resources that largely dictates the migration of population,
formation of new settlements and the abandonment of
inhabited places in the world.
• Historically, the world society has responded to a decrease in
the availability of resources with a price rise or replacement of
one resource with another.
• For example, in Great Britain, around 1800, in response to total
deforestation people started using coal instead of firewood,
while a century later oil became the main energy resource,
cheap and widely available.

13. Use of Natural Resources (Ethical)
• The availability of all the Earth’s resources is limited in a way,
either due to insufficient reserves, complicated extraction or
transportation, inadequate technology of extraction and
processing.
• Thus, a moment comes when the demand for certain resources
exceeds that of their extraction.
• Society responds to this by a attempts to develop the research
and extraction of mineral deposits and to improve extraction
technologies.
• It stipulates that, with a fixed resource, a unit of another
resource(-s) will yield a progressive decline in productivity
when a certain output level is exceeded.

14. Natural
Resources
Common Uses
Air (Wind) Required for all living things for breathing, Use to produce wind
energy.
Animals / Plants Provide food, cloth, shelter, medicine. Animal dung can be used
as fuel/fertilizer.
Soil Used as the primary nutrient source for plants. It is the habitat
of many organisms.
Solar Light Provide light, energy and help to plants for making their foods.
Wood / Tree Used as construction material. Used to make utensils, furniture
and sporting equipments.
Water Used in household, agriculture and transportation.

15. Natural Resources In Bangladesh

16. Natural Resources In
Bangladesh

17. • It is the renewable natural resources of Bangladesh.
• There are total of 230 rivers in Bangladesh. throughout
the country there are Bills, Haors and Lakes that meet the
need of drinking, bathing and irrigating water.
• Two main rivers of the country are the Brahmaputra and
the Ganges account for more than 80% of stream flows.
Natural Resources In Bangladesh: WATER

18. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: WATER

19. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: WATER

20. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: LAND RESOURCES

21. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: LAND RESOURCES

22. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: MINERAL RESOURCES
# Geologically Bangladesh occupies a larger part of the BENGAL
BASIN and the country is covered by Tertiary folded
sedimentary rocks (12%) in the north, north eastern
and eastern parts;
# Pleistocene residuum (8%) in the north western, mid
northern & eastern parts;
# Holocene deposits (80%) consisting of unconsolidated SAND,
SILT and CL AY
# Bangladesh is receiving substantial international interest
since it is told that it might have huge gas and oil deposits. This
is an fact a prime location for hydrocarbon resource.

23. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: MINERAL RESOURCES

24. Use of natural gas Meet 70% of the total demand of
fuel
Total gas block 23 numbers including block 9
Stock of natural gas 28.4 trillion cubic feet
Primarily recoverable
natural gas stock
20.51 TCF
Production in 2007-08 486.75 BCF
Cumulative lifted gas 6.003 TCF
Liftable net stock 14.475 TCF
Major consumption on
natural gas
211.02 BCF in power sector
Natural Resources In Bangladesh: MINERAL RESOURCES

25. Renewable Natural Resources In Bangladesh

26. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: BAY OF BENGAL

27. Cox's Bazar is the longest
beach of the world having a
length of 155 km.
Shrimp industry is based on
this Bay of Bengal and the
country is earning a huge
amount of foreign currency.
Natural Resources In Bangladesh: COX’S BAZAR

28. Natural Resources In Bangladesh: SUNDERBAN
• 525- recorded species of birds, 350 are resident.
• Of the 200 species of mammals,
• The pride of place goes to the Royal Bengal Tiger of the
Sunderbans
• Prawns and lobsters arc available in plenty for local
consumption and export.