"Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications."
Study of the availability, distribution, and sustainability of natural resources such as land, water, forests, minerals, and energy sources.
"On Earth, it includes sunlight, atmosphere, water, land, all minerals along with all vegetation, and wildlife."
"Valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest, and cultural value."
"Natural resources are part of humanity's natural heritage or protected in nature reserves."
"Natural resources are materials and components (something that can be used) that can be found within the environment."
"Every man-made product is composed of natural resources (at its fundamental level)."
"A natural resource may exist as a separate entity such as fresh water, air, or any living organism such as a fish, or it may be transformed by extractivist industries into an economically useful form."
"Metal ores, rare-earth elements, petroleum, timber, and most forms of energy."
"Some resources are renewable, which means that they can be used at a certain rate and natural processes will restore them."
"Extractive industries rely heavily on non-renewable resources that can only be extracted once."
"Natural-resource allocations can be at the center of many economic and political confrontations both within and between countries."
"This is particularly true during periods of increasing scarcity and shortages (depletion and overconsumption of resources)."
"Resource extraction is also a major source of human rights violations and environmental damage."
"The Sustainable Development Goals and other international development agendas frequently focus on creating more sustainable resource extraction."
"Some scholars and researchers focus on creating economic models, such as circular economy, that rely less on resource extraction and more on reuse, recycling, and renewable resources that can be sustainably managed."
"Particular areas often feature biodiversity and geodiversity in their ecosystems."
"Natural resources may be classified in different ways."
"Transformed by extractivist industries into an economically useful form that must be processed to obtain the resource."
"Valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use."
"Sustainable resource extraction, with some scholars and researchers focused on creating economic models, such as circular economy, that rely less on resource extraction and more on reuse, recycling, and renewable resources that can be sustainably managed."