Question

What concepts are behind the management of resources like coal, petroleum etc?

Answer 1

Coal and petroleum are resources which are non-renewable. They will exhaust in due course of time. Coal and petroleum have been formed of bio-mass degradation millions of years ago. Therefore, they have carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur. When these are burnt, the products are carbon dioxide, water, oxides of nitrogen and oxides of sulphur. All of these are pollutants of the atmosphere. More use of fossil fuels causes more and more release of these pollutants. Thus, management of fossil-fuels is to be seen from the environmental and economic angle.