Review on Humanitarian Foundations of Natural Resources Management

Abstract

Natural disasters and conflicts have an impact that threatens the lives, health, livelihoods and security of populations. At the same time, the interventions of humanitarian organizations in response to these disasters can also cause as much damage to natural resources as the crises to which they are supposed to respond Humanitarian activities consist of saving lives exposed to calamity, however natural resources and environment management involve the state to plane how to use these resources and seems to do not have something to do with humanitarian activities. Thus, the main objective of this work is to establish the humanitarian background of natural resources management. The methodology use in this work is the literature review and direct observation. This allow us to highlight the major importance that have to care about natural resources in humanitarian activities. The result of this work shows that humanitarian organizations have to take natural resources management in account in their interventions so that they cannot make worse the problem they want to solve.