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Natural Resources Management

Prof. Sudip Mitra · IIT Guwahati

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About

This course focuses on the need of sustainable management of the Earth's depleting natural resources such as soil, water, forest, minerals and biological resources, in relation to the growth of the human population. The range of topics covered in the course will provide students with a wider perspective on many national and international natural resource management (NRM) issues. Farm based technologies and simulation modeling is an important aspect of modern day NRM. Appropriate NRM is the key to the sustainable development.

Intended audience: Under graduate and post graduate students, professional, practitioner in the discipline of Agriculture, Rural Technology, Rural Development, Agricultural Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Study, Ecology, Natural Resources Management etc.

Prerequisites: Bachelor Degree in any Engineering and/ or Science discipline.

Lectures

Week 1:Introduction to Natural Resource Bases: Part 1

  1. Lec 1: Introduction to Natural Resource bases- Part 1 YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Introduction to Natural Resource bases- Part 2-A YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Introduction to Natural Resource bases- Part 2-B YouTube
  4. Lec 4: Introduction to Natural Resource bases- Part 2-C YouTube
  5. Lec 5: Resource management Paradigms- Part 1 YouTube
  6. Lec 6: Resource management Paradigms- Part 2 YouTube
  7. Lec 7: Approaches to NRM YouTube

Week 2:Introduction to Natural Resource Bases: Part 2

  1. Lec 8: Biodiversity & conservation Part 1 YouTube
  2. Lec 9: Biodiversity & conservation Part 2 YouTube
  3. Lec 10: Biodiversity & conservation Part 3 YouTube
  4. Lec 11: Participatory Rural Appraisal & Rapid Rural Appraisal (Part 1) YouTube
  5. Lec 12: Participatory Rural Appraisal & Rapid Rural Appraisal (Part 2) YouTube
  6. Lec 13: Participatory Rural Appraisal & Rapid Rural Appraisal (Part 3) YouTube
  7. Lec 14: Participatory Rural Appraisal & Rapid Rural Appraisal (Part 4) YouTube

Week 3:Resource Management Paradigms: Part 1

  1. Lec 15: Introduction to INRM YouTube
  2. Lec 16: Learning cycle in Integrated Natural Resources Management YouTube
  3. Lec 17: Technologies for Integrated Natural Resources Management YouTube
  4. Lec 18: PRA techniques within INRM YouTube
  5. Lec 19: Ranking technique YouTube

Week 4:Resource Management Paradigms: Part 2

  1. Lec 20: Community Based Natural Resources Management (Part 1) YouTube
  2. Lec 21: Community Based Natural Resources Management - Benefits from CBNRM YouTube
  3. Lec 22: Community Based Natural Resources Management (Part 2) YouTube
  4. Lec 23: Watershed management YouTube
  5. Lec 24: Watershed management: Flood control YouTube
  6. Lec 25: National Water Policy YouTube
  7. Lec 26: Soil erosion management YouTube
  8. Lec 27: Landuse management for flood risk reduction YouTube

Week 5:Approaches in Resource Management

  1. Lec 28: Drought Management YouTube
  2. Lec 29: Common Property Right (CPR) YouTube
  3. Lec 30: A Tutorial on Tragedy of the Commons YouTube
  4. Lec 31: Environmental Management Systems (EMS) YouTube
  5. Lec 32: National Environment Policy (NEP) YouTube

Week 6:Biodiversity and conservation of natural resources

  1. Lec 33: Modeling And Simulations Applications in Agriculture for NRM (Part-1) YouTube
  2. Lec 34: Modeling And Simulations Applications in Agriculture for NRM (Part-2) YouTube
  3. Lec 35: Modeling And Simulations Applications in Agriculture for NRM (Part-3) YouTube
  4. Lec 36: Modeling And Simulations Applications in Agriculture for NRM (Part-4) YouTube
  5. Lec 37: Modeling And Simulations Applications in Agriculture for NRM (Part-5) YouTube
  6. Lec 38: Precision Farming & Protected Cultivation (Part-1) YouTube
  7. Lec 39: Precision Farming & Protected Cultivation (Part-2) YouTube

Week 07: EIA

  1. Lec 40: Precision Farming & Protected Cultivation (Part-3) YouTube
  2. Lec 41: EIA (Part-1) YouTube
  3. Lec 42: EIA (Part-2) YouTube
  4. Lec 43: EIA (Part-3) YouTube
  5. Lec 44: EIA (Part-4) YouTube
  6. Lec 45: EIA (Part-5) YouTube

Week 08: EIA, Case study on CBNRM and Introduction to Model sensitivity in NRM

  1. Lec 46: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Part-6 YouTube
  2. Lec 47: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Part-7 YouTube
  3. Lec 48: CBNRM in Kenya YouTube
  4. Lec 49: Model sensitivity & Uncertainty YouTube

Week 9: MCDA; Remote Sensing and GIS in NRM

  1. Lec 50: MCDA in Agriculture YouTube
  2. Lec 51: MCDM for NRM Part-1 YouTube
  3. Lec 52: MCDM for NRM Part-2 YouTube
  4. Lec 53: MCDM for NRM Part-3 YouTube
  5. Lec 54: Remote Sensing and GIS Application in Agriculture and NRM (Introduction) YouTube
  6. Lec 55: Remote Sensing and GIS Application in Agriculture and NRM: Part-01 YouTube

Week 10: Remote Sensing and GIS; Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptation

  1. Lec 56: Remote Sensing and GIS Application in Agriculture and NRM: Part-02 YouTube
  2. Lec 57: Remote Sensing and GIS Application in Agriculture and NRM: Part-03 YouTube
  3. Lec 58: Climate change; vulnerability; adaptation. Part-01 YouTube

Week 11: Climate Change; Vulnerability; Adaptation and ICT

  1. Lec 59: Climate change; vulnerability; adaptation. Part-02 YouTube
  2. Lec 60: Climate change; vulnerability; adaptation. Part-03 YouTube
  3. Lec 61: ICT: Introduction YouTube
  4. Lec 62: ICT for Soil management YouTube

Week 12: Collective management of resources and revision

  1. Lec 63: ICT for Water management YouTube
  2. Lec 64: Collective mangmt of resources YouTube
  3. Lec 65: Revision YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Agriculture
Teacher
Prof. Sudip Mitra
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Biology
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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