Annotated Bibliography: Global Natural Resource Management in SOC135

This annotated bibliography, prepared for the SOC135 course, examines key scholarly articles related to global natural resource management. The bibliography includes summaries and critical evaluations of three articles. The first article, by Feyerabend et al. (2008), discusses collaborative management of natural resources, highlighting the limitations of modernist approaches and emphasizing alternative governance structures. The second article, by Băcescu-Cărbunaru (2018), focuses on global demographic pressures and their impact on resource management, emphasizing the risks facing humankind and the need for proactive measures. The third article, from newsrx.com (2019), explores the environmental sustainability and the effects of industries, identifying characteristics of transition towards stewardship in the corporate biosphere. Each annotation provides a concise overview of the article's content, followed by an evaluation of key points relevant to the research topic, adhering to APA style guidelines.

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Topic: Global Natural Resource Management
Feyerabend, G., Pimbert, M., Farvar, M., Kothari, A., & Renard, Y. (2008). A global guide to
collaborative management of natural resources (pp. 257-262). Natural Resources Forum 32.
The article focuses on the high modernist ideals that governs the hubristic intentions
of the states in the book called, Seeing like a State. The article further delivers the abilities of
technology facilitated by science and its scientific methods in order to improve the conditions
of human provided with association of modernist techniques. The modernist techniques
structures the plannings and management of the entire diversity ranging from city landscapes
to forest and rural landscapes. However, the articles also highlights the contradictory pictures,
that is, failure of the modernist techniques such as planning and mapping in the making of
improvements and of human lives and genuine progress.
From the analysis of the referred article, it is evaluated that the article offers a set of
ideas based on theories and empirical examples and instances provided with immense amount
of knowledge and sense of the interested individual who approaches towards fostering natural
resource management. The guide involves co-practitioners management but it feeds most of
the individuals who are interested regarding collaborative management, evaluation research
and participatory democracy.
Băcescu-Cărbunaru, A. (2018). Global Demographic Pressures and Management of Natural
Resources–Foresights about the Future of Mankind. Revista de Management Comparat
Internațional, 19(1), 40-53.
The article focuses on the deliverance of the developed humankind along with the
scientific progress. Following it, the paper establishes the strong competitive atmosphere
across the globe. With the increasing atmosphere of competence level, the advancement of
the scientific measure has led to the misleading wave in the world. Human society is more
focused towards the growth of global economy and industrialization as well as strong military

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force through the introduction of certain bombs involving nuclear bombs and political stems.
It further leads to poverty, environmental pollution, corruption and challenges in human
development as well, revealing that the disaster that can jeopardize the very existence of
human life on planet.
From the analysis of the referred article, it is evaluated that the challenges are
increasing with the progression of humankind. The future of human kind is approached
through several pitfalls and natural risks such as earthquakes, flood and other natural disaster.
In addition, the economic risk is also felt that includes unemployment, poverty, inflation as
well as monetary crisis. The paper focuses on delivering the message that people should not
ignore risks that includes technological, social, epidemiological, natural as well as economic
risks. They should take initiatives to introduce regulatory measures in order to retain a
balance and harmony in the global environment.
newsrx.com. (2019), 4, 127. Retrieved 17 February 2020, from
https://www.newsrx.com/Butter/#!Newsletters:Ecology,-Environment-and-Conservation.
The article focuses on the environmental sustainability and the industrial effects on
global sustenance. The article introduces various transnational companies that includes the
sectors of forestry, seafood, minerals, agriculture and fossil energy that adds a significant
impact in the surroundings. Through the influence of these essential industries, the
sustainability is ensured for the long term and further approaches towards attaining global
sustainability.
From the analysis of the mentioned article, it is evaluated that the researchers
identifies six major characteristics of transition through which the shift towards the
stewardship in the corporate biosphere is marked. The research provides the significance of
stewardship over sustainability, in order to emphasize the dual dimension of social and

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environmental paradigm of caring and protecting. It further emphasizes the importance of
active participation of people, nations and their economy in shaping up the environmental
structure of the planet.

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References:
Băcescu-Cărbunaru, A. (2018). Global Demographic Pressures and Management of Natural
Resources–Foresights about the Future of Mankind. Revista de Management
Comparat Internațional, 19(1), 40-53.
Feyerabend, G., Pimbert, M., Farvar, M., Kothari, A., & Renard, Y. (2008). A global guide to
collaborative management of natural resources (pp. 257-262). Natural Resources
Forum 32.
newsrx.com. (2019), 4, 127. Retrieved 17 February 2020, from
https://www.newsrx.com/Butter/#!Newsletters:Ecology,-Environment-and-
Conservation.