National Policies for Natural Resource Management: Marginalisation of Poor Rural Women

Abstract

The interrelationship between human factors and natural resources management is complex and has remained at the center of the development debate.  With the growing population and increasing pressure on resources the arguments about 'limits to growth'  were raised. Warnings about the world's exhaustible resources such as forests, minerals, petroleum etc., and the need for regulating their exploitation to avert future crises, gave rise to conservationist movements.