A resource is any physical or virtual entity of limited availability, or anything used to help one earn a living.fact: date=February 2008 In most cases, commercial or even ethic factors require resource allocation through resource management.
A resource is any physical or virtual entity of limited availability, or anything used to help one earn a living.fact: date=February 2008 In most cases, commercial or even ethic factors require resource allocation through resource management.
As resources are very useful, we attach some information value to them. Resources help to produce goods so they have economic value. Natural resources like forests, mountains etc. are considered beautiful so they have aesthetic value. Gifts of nature such as water also have a legal value because it is our right to consume them. On the other hand, resources have an ethical value as well because it is our moral duty to protect and conserve them for the future generations.
Resources have three main characteristics: utility, quantity (often in terms of availability), and use in producing other resources. However, this definition is not accepted by some, for example deep ecologists who believe that non-human elements are independent of human values.
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