Problems of Natural Resources Management

  Nepal has faced grave problems and marked significant achievements in the management of its natural resources. There are dramatic changes in the conservation movement. Even the word "conservation" is falling into disuse in favor of more descriptive and more inclusive phrases. Educators and resource managers spoke of total environmental management and envisioned a discipline that would create a harmonious relationship between man and his environment. Under this new concept, the conservation philosophy is becoming less a tool of the physical science and more the domain of the social sciences. Environmental mismanagement has reached a point where it could be recognized by the man in the street. There are point where it could be recognized by the man in the street. There are different problems to manage the respected natural resources. There are various factors, which hinder to manage natural resources:

    i) Lack of Capital: We need adequate capital to manage the existing natural resources. Nepal being one of the poorest countries is unable to make available adequate capital as necessity. Due to lack of adequate capital for investment for utilization of natural resources, these natural resources are still unknown to the common people, and their use in commercial scale yet to be started. If they are utilized in some extent, they are used in inappropriate manner.

  ii) Lack of Technical Know_how: The development and management of natural resources we need adequate skilled manpower of varied levels. Nepal does not possess required number of competent personnel. The purse of the country does not permit the import to such manpower.

   iii) Lack of Infrastructure: Nepal is poor in various infrastructures. Transportation is one of them. But lack of adequate transport facilities, natural resources in various parts of Nepal cannot be utilized and exploited so far. In most cases, favorable sites for executing natural resources lie in remote areas, which do not possess adequate facilities of transporting heavy equipment needed for the said purpose.

    iv) Limited Market  v)Inappropriate Government Policy vi) Unemployment vii) Political Instability