Syllabus
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Course Code: M-GEO-303 (v) (elective) Course Name: Resource Geography |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Concept and Scope of Resource Geography; Resource and ecosystem services: concept and types in relation to related concepts- environment, ecosystem, nature as nurture; World resources: classification of resources- changing profile and concerns; understanding relationship between natural resources and development process, and livelihoods with special reference to poor in the developing world. Sustainable development and some concerns from the past- from dooms day, zero growth to Rio and subsequent Earth summits. | |
| 2 | Natural resource-based development processes in history: the agricultural transition, the era of Malthusian stagnation, Emergence of world economy, rise of the Western Europe with special reference to golden era of resource-based development (1870-1913), colonial origins and resource exploitation, center-periphery trade-resource dependency and unequal development. | |
| 3 | Models of Natural Resources Process: Zimmermann’s Primitive and Advance Models of natural resource process- population, resources and carrying capacity, Kirk’s Decision Model, Brookfield System Model; The resource curse hypothesis; open access exploitation hypothesis; factor endowment hypothesis; resources and common property/ entitlement-opportunity hypothesis; Resource exploitation and internal colonization, accumulation by dispossession; poverty and resource degradation. | |
| 4 | Management of Natural Resources: Meaning and Concept of conservation of Natural Resources, Resources and governance- State, civil society and state- resource tenure and property rights-access and ownership; decentralization, participation and Justice- fundamentals of community based natural resources management (C-BNRM); political economy and C-BNRM; reconciling biodiversity with development. Conservation and Management Methods of Natural resources: Soil Resource, Water Resource, Forest Resource and Mineral Resources, Problems of Natural Resource Management in India. Policies for sustainable resource-based development. | |
