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Introduction: Resources are unevenly distributed in an amount, and quality, and do not match uneven distribution of population and demand, a consideration of natural resources falls within the location distributional tradition of the discipline of geography. In this chapter, natural resources on which societies depend, their patterns of production and consumption, and the problem of managing those resources in light of growing demands and reserves. RESOURCE TERMINOLOGY A resource is a naturally occurring, material that a society to be useful to its economic and material well-being. In this chapter, we devote our attention to physically occurring resources as they are more commonly called natural resources. Natural resources are a function of two things: the physical characteristics of the resources themselves, and human economic and technological conditions. The physical processes that govern the formation, distribution and occurrence of natural resources are determined by physical laws over which people have no direct control. RENEWABLE RESOURCES Renewable resources are materials that can be regenerated in nature as fast or faster than they are exploited by society. Forests are a renewable resource only if people are