EC 5153 2 RESOURCE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT SEMESTER I 20062007 Board of Study in Agricultural Econom

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EC 5153 (2) RESOURCE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
SEMESTER I 2006/2007Board of Study in
Agricultural Economics

• Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture ,
  Peradeniya,
• S.THIRUCHELVAM

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EC 5153 (230/00) RESOURCE PLANNING AND
MANAGEMENT  COOURSE OUTLINE  I. Basic Concepts
Key Process in NRM  1.  Natural Resource
Utilization Management  2. Natural Resource
Ecosystem  3. Sustainable Economy NRM - Quiz 1
- 5  4.  Neoclassical Econ. Model - Opti.
Harvest  5.  Institutional Aspects of
NRM  6.  Demographic Aspects of NRM  7.  Natural
Resource Degradation - Mid Term - 25  II.
Theoretical, Procedural Tech. Aspects of NRM
Quiz 2 - 5 Term Paper
Presentation- 15 
End Term - 50 
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I.       BASIC CONCEPTS KEY PROCESS IN NRM   L
1.1 Basic Idea of Sustainable Resource
Mgt.  SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SD     Meets the
needs of the present without compromising the
ability of the future to meet their own
needs.     Equity Dimensions- Inter Intra
Generation     The Central Rationale of SD  
Increase SOL of least advantage people
Avoiding uncompensated future cost.     Compatibl
e Objectives of SD   Economic Growth
- Increase Quantity Economic
Development - Increase Quality  
Environmental Protection     Necessary
Condition-SD Time Dimension   Non-Declining
Natural Capital,   Maintaining Human Welfare
Over Time.     Integrate Econ., Social
Environment
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• EVOLUTION OF DEVELOPMENT CONSERN
•  Econ. Dev. Exp. Over the Past Decades
•      The Conspicuous Fifties
•   Infrastructure as constraint.
• Capital Intensive - Engineering Tech.
  Orientation. 
•       The Confident Sixties
•   Industry to Agricultural
  Fundamentalism- GR
  
•       The Complex Seventies
•   Basic Needs Human Development
• Income Distribution, Social
  Management Concern.  
•       The Confused Eighties
•   Remove Structural Macro
  Distortions
•   Concerns on Community
  Participation.
•       The Cautious Nineties
• Environment Social
  Sustainability
•   The Conundrum Millennium
• Social Development
• Poverty, Governance, Gender,
  etc.,

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1.2       RESOURCE USERS MANAGERS   Direct
Resource Users- Farmers, Fishermen All Re. Users
are not Resource Managers Park Visitors
Professionals    Both concerned on Micro
level Mgt. -  Econ. Efficiency Pvt. Cost lt
Soci. Cost- Externality                Macro
economic rationality in Mgt.   1.3 The
Spatio-Institutional Levels- NRMS The Nature,
Magnitude Dimensions    Single - Aggregate
Complex Hierarchy Institutional  
 Individual, Cluster Common  
 Agro-ecological zones, Water Sheds  
 Natural / Administrative Boundaries  
 Property / Project Boundaries  
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1.4 PERSPECTIVE APPROACHES -
NRM   Perspectives and NRM Problems - 
Direct Resource cum Managers -  Professional
Planners/ Managers -  Environmentalist - 
Business lobby/ Legislators    Mono Inter
Disciplinary - Perspective Approach   Mono
- Reductionism - Self interest Holistic
- Inter Disciplinary - Pluralism    
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The Biophysical Basis of the Econ.
Process         Economic Cycle Nature  
Extraction
- Source  
Pollution - Sink
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Aesthetic - Price Signals
- Non Price Signals      Whether
Free / Planned / Mixed Economy   Guarantee
Persist Environment?        Economy Embedded
in the Eco System 
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SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL TRENDS   1.Green House
Gases GHG -  Heavy reliance on fossil fuel - 
Global energy increased 70 -  2 increase over
next 15 years -  50 increase GHG
emissions. 2.Ozone Layer -  Black market trade
in CFCs etc. -  1987 Montreal Protocol - 
Countries commitments -  Need 50 to back to
normal.   3.Acid Rain -  SO2 Emission - 
Developed countries- strict regu. -  Asia, SO2 E.
will double by 2020.
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4.Nitrogen Cycle -  Ferti., human sewage fossil
fuel -  Excess N2 in the past 50 years. - 
Reduced soil ferti., eutrofication - 
Biologically available N2 double in 25 years.
5.Deforestation -  A leading cause farming - 
Shows no sign of abating. -  20 of world
tropical forest cleared bet. 60- 90s. - 
Developed countries stable / slight increase - 
Natural forest lack adequate protection.
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6. Bio Diversity -  Courses habitat redu.
Pollution -  Competition from non-native plts. - 
exotic Invaders threat 20 endangered
spp.   7. Aquatic Environment -  Most ocean
are over fished -  Productivity is on the
decline -  58 of the worlds coral reefs - 
34 of all fish species are at risk.   8. Water
Scarcity -  21st Cs the most pressing issues
-  Moderate to high in 1/3 worlds population
rise to 2/3 in the next 30 years.
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Environmental Conservation-Why ?

• Environment is a resource
• Source function
• Sink function
• Global function
• Environment is a unique resource, requiring
  special attention in sustainable development
• Non substitutable functions
• Irreversible if damaged
• Resilience
• Environment is the material/resource link between
  present and future generations

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The Existence Theorem The existence theorem
relates the scale configuration of an economy
to the set of environment economy
interrelationships underlying the economy.
Linear Economics  The open linear economy needs
to be revised revised to allow for the economic
functions of natural environments and the the
thermodynamic equivalence between resource
extraction and waste discharges. Resource