1. Presentation By: Nelson S. Jallah (Bsc, Msc Environmental Science)
Topic:
Natural Resource Management (NRM)
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2. Introduction Can anyone tell anything about Natural Resources?
What is Natural Resource Management
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3. Definition of Natural Resource
A natural resource is anything that people can use which comes from nature.
People do not make natural resources, but gather them from the earth.
 Examples of natural resources are air, water, wood, oil, wind, energy, iron and coal.
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4. Quotation
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed”. Mahatma Gandhi
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6. Renewable Resources
A renewable resource is a resource which can be used repeatedly because it is replaced naturally.
Renewable resources may include goods or commodities such as wood, paper and leather, because their sources are renewable.
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7. Non renewable resources
A nonrenewable resource is a resource of economic value that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption.
 non-renewable resource (also called a finite resource) is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time-frames.
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8. Natural Resource Management
Natural resource management refers to the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals.
Natural resource management deals with managing the way in which people and natural landscapes interact.
Natural resource managers guide sustainable development to protect environmental assets.
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9. The Chain of Natural Resource Management
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10. Good Governance in Natural Resource Management
Good governance is just not about processes and reform of systems, it is also about the integrity of those implementing and operating the governance system in natural resource management. 
Transparency in natural resource governance is critical if pursued in its true intent. That is, the space must be created for citizens’ to have access to relevant information.
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11. Good Governance Continue
Participation and accountability are critical elements in good natural resource governance; and along with transparency, they are necessary ingredients for solving nagging curses that come with resource exploitation.
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12. The Benefit of Good Governance in Managing natural resources
When natural resources are managed well, citizens’ Confidence in their public officials increases.
They feel the effects of revenues generated and development projects.
The Entire communities are resurrected from the poverty.
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13. The New Central Bank of Liberia
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14. Jackson F. Doe Hospital
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15. Communities Role in Resource Management
The communities are the custodian of the natural resources.
They are responsible to protect the natural resources in the absent of the national government.
They are to participate in all decision making that will result in the management of the resources.
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16. Threats on natural resources
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17. Policies of Natural Resource Management
Does Liberia has good policies in the management of natural resources?
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If Yes, what are the policies? If No, why?
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18. Answers Yes, we have policies in managing our resources
The National Forest Reform Law of 2006 establishes a transparent framework for the usage, management and protection of forest resources that balance the commercial, community and conservation in Liberia.
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19. Answers continue
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) was established in July 2009 on the basis of ensuring that all benefits due the Government and people of Liberia on account of the exploitation and/or extraction of the country’s minerals and other resources are:
Verifiably paid or provided;
Duly accounted for; and
Prudently utilized for the benefits of all Liberians and on the basis of equity and sustainability.
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20. Conclusion
Liberia is endowed with vast quantities of diamonds, gold, iron ore, tropical timbers and other natural resources which are held by and in the name of the Government of Liberia for the benefit of all Liberians.
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21. The End!!
Thank You
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