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| Misuse of Natural Resources |
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| Misuse of natural resources refers to excessive use, destructive use or achieving imbalance between resources either individually or in combination. Misuse of resources can also be direct or indirect. Direct misuse refers to such situations where the resource is directly destroyed or overused. But, many times, some resources are indirectly put to misuse. |
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| Lack of knowledge of resource and its significance leads to its misuse. Lack of knowledge about natural resource may be even with educated people or uneducated people. |
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| Different Types of Misuse of Natural Resources |
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| a)Commercial interests like trading in products out of natural resources. |
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| b) Ignorance on necessity to preserve natural resources. |
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| c) Deliberate negligence on destruction of natural resource. |
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| d) Entertainment / recreational / aesthetic interest. |
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| e) Extreme population pressure. |
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| f) Self interest of human beings over the interest to retain natural resources. |
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| g) International trade and commitments. |
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| h) Misuse of legislation. |
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| i) Loop holes of provisions of law. |
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| j) Protracted legal process. |
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| k) Food interest |
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| l) Luxuries required for man. |
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| m) Increased industrial requirement. |
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| n) Improvement of standard of living, GDP, per capita income and purchasing power. |
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| o) Expectations of instantaneous returns. |
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