NATURAL RESOURCES

MANAGEMENT
GRACE B. VERIDIANO
1st Semester
Graduate School, CBSUA

Lecture 1
Resource

 A source of information or expertise

 A source of supply or support :  an available
means —usually used in plural

Is anything we get from the

environment to meet our needs
and desire.
Natural Resource

 Anything that people can use which comes

from nature. People do not make natural
resources, but gather them from the earth.

 Examples of natural resources are air, water,

wood, oil, wind energy, hydro-electric
energy, iron, and coal.
Natural Resources can be...
 Renewable
 Inexhaustible on a human time scale
 Potentially renewable
 Can be renewed fairly rapidly (hours to several decades)
through natural process.
 Can be depleted if used faster than natural processes renew
them
 Non renewable
 Resources that exist in a fixed quantity in the Earth’s crust
and thus “theoretically” can be renewed by geologic
processes
5 choices once a non-renewable resource
becomes “economically depleted”
 Economically depleted – when cost of finding, extracting,
transporting and processing what is left exceed the amount
earned from them

1. Recycle or Reuse
2. Waste less
3. Use less
4. Try to develop a substitute
5. Or do without and wait a MILLION years for more to be
produced
Tragedy of the Commons

 The tragedy of the commons is

an economic theory by Garrett Hardin.

 According to which individuals, acting

independently and rationally according to
each one's self-interest, behave contrary to
the whole group's long-term best interests by
depleting some common resource.
Tragedy of the Commons

 "Commons" can include the atmosphere,

oceans, rivers, fish stocks, national parks, the
office refrigerator, and any other shared
resource.

 The tragedy of the commons has particular

relevance in analyzing behavior in the fields
of economics, evolutionary psychology,
anthropology, politics, taxation, and sociology.
Tragedy of the Commons
Tragedy of the Commons

 The tragedy of the commons occurs when

individuals neglect the well-being of society
(or the group) in the pursuit of personal gain.
Management

 Management is the process of reaching

organizational goals by working with and
through people and other organizational
resources. 
Management

 Management has the following 3

characteristics:
 It is a process or series of continuing and related
activities.
 It involves and concentrates on reaching
organizational goals.
 It reaches these goals by working with and
through people and other organizational
resources.
Management

 The 4 basic management functions that

make up the management process are
described in the following sections:
1. PLANNING
2. ORGANIZING
3. INFLUENCING
4. CONTROLLING.
Management

 PLANNING: Planning involves choosing tasks

that must be performed to attain organizational
goals, outlining how the tasks must be
performed, and indicating when they should be
performed.
 Planning activity focuses on attaining goals.
Managers outline exactly what organizations
should do to be successful. Planning is concerned
with the success of the organization in the short
term as well as in the long term.
Management
 Organizing can be thought of as assigning the tasks
developed in the planning stages, to various individuals
or groups within the organization. Organizing is to create
a mechanism to put plans into action.
 People within the organization are given work
assignments that contribute to the company’s goals.
Tasks are organized so that the output of each individual
contributes to the success of departments, which, in turn,
contributes to the success of divisions, which ultimately
contributes to the success of the organization.
Management
 Influencing is also referred to as motivating, leading or
directing.
 Influencing can be defined as guiding the activities of
organization members in he direction that helps the
organization move towards the fulfillment of the goals.
 The purpose of influencing is to increase productivity.
Human-oriented work situations usually generate
higher levels of production over the long term than do
task oriented work situations because people find the
latter type distasteful.
Management

 Controlling is the following roles played by

the manager:
 Gather information that measures
performance
 Compare present performance to pre
established performance norms.
 Determine the next action plan and
modifications for meeting the desired
performance parameters.
Management

1. PLANNING
2. ORGANIZING
3. INFLUENCING
4. CONTROLLING.
NRM

 Natural Resources Management (NRM) refers

to the sustainable utilization of major natural
resources, such as land, water, air, minerals,
forests, fisheries, and wild flora and fauna.
Together, these resources provide the
ecosystem services that underpin human life.
 It’s about the long-term implications of
actions - thinking about the future and not
just about now.
NRM

 NRM is about SUSTAINABILITY

 The goal is sustainability - balancing social

(people and communities), economic (money
and jobs) and environmental (land, water, air
and living things) factors to make sure that
our children and grandchildren can equally
benefit from our natural resources.
NRM

 Our social, economic and environmental

wellbeing depends on the sustainable
management of natural resources.

 In fact, in many instances, the goal is to

leave a better natural environment for people
in the future than what we have today!