This document discusses different ways of classifying resources. Resources are defined as anything available in the environment that can satisfy human needs if technologically accessible, economically feasible, and culturally acceptable. Resources can be classified based on their origin as biotic (living) or abiotic (non-living), based on whether they are renewable or non-renewable, based on who owns them, and based on their development status. Renewable resources like solar and wind energy and forests can be reproduced, while non-renewable resources like minerals and fossil fuels take millions of years to form and will eventually be exhausted.

1. S.S.TRESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

2. RESOURCESEVERYTHING AVAILABLE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT WHICH CAN BE USED TO SATISFY OUR NEEDS PROVIDED , IT IS TECHNOLOGICAL LY ACCESSIBLE , ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE AND CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE CAN BE TERMED AS RESOURCES

3. 1. ON THE BASIS OF ORIGIN ---BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC2. ON THE BASIS OF EXHAUSTIBILITY --- RENEWABLE AND NON – RENEWABLE3. ON THE BASIS OF OWNERSHIP --- INDIVIDUAL , COMMUNITY , NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL4. ON THE BASIS OF STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT --- POTENTIAL ,DEVELOPED , STOCKS AND RESERVES

4. ON THE BASIS OF ORIGINBIOTIC RESOURCES --- THESE ARE OBTAINED FROM BIOSPHERE AND HAVE LIFE SUCH AS HUMAN BEINGS , FLORA AND FAUNA , FISHERIES , LIVESTOCK ETCABIOTIC RESOURCES --- ALL THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE COMPOSED OF NON- LIVING THINGS ARE CALLED ABIOTIC RESOURCES .. EXAMPLE –ROCK AND METALS

5. ON THE BASIS OF EXHUASTIBLITYRENEWABLE RESOURCES --- THE RESOURCES WHICH CAN BE REPRODUCED BY PHYSICAL OR MECHNICAL PROCESSES ARE KNOWN AS RENEWABLE OR REPLENISHABLE RESOYRCES…EXAMPLE SOLAR& WIND ENERGY, WATER,FORESTS AND WILDLIFE.NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES ---THEY OCCUR OVER A LONG GEOLOGICAL TIME.MINERAL AND FOSSIL FUELS ARE EXAMPLES OF SUCH RESOURCES.THESE RESOURCES TAKE MILLION OF YEARS IN THEIR FORMATION. SOME OF THE RESOURCES LIKE METALS ARE RECYCABLEAND SOME LIKE FOSSIL FUELS CANNOT BE RECYCLED AND GET EXHAUSTED EITH THEIR USE.