The world is facing serious natural resource problems, such as climate change, overfishing, deforestation, water stress, and biodiversity loss. The purpose of this course is to introduce the principles of natural resource management and guide students to examine the causes of global natural resource problems and to devise possible and creative solutions to solve the problems. We first introduce the background and concepts of natural resource management from a global perspective. Theoretical and empirical case analysis is conducted. The course also introduces roles of various stakeholders in global natural resource management, including states, international organizations, business sectors, NGOs, and individuals.
This book uses applied mathematics familiar to undergraduate engineers and scientists to examine natural resource management and its role in framing sustainability. It explores the exhaustible sterile category, Quandrant 1, using the example of petroleum throughout; presents increasing biological sophistication, all the while over-lapping Quadrants 3 and 4 and sharing this basic duality; and treats the case of the renewable, sterile resource, the standard example of which is water, in the form of an introduction to pollution and assimilative capacity. Simple programs in commonly available packages (Excel, MATLAB) support the text.
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