MRDCS Scope Note
sn: including soil resources (e.g. soil-land degradation, tin tailing area rehabilitation, peat soils management, BRIS soils management, hill land crops management, rehabilitation of BRIS soils), water resources (e.g. hydrology , water catchment, water management, water recycling and reuse, water standards, ground water management), biodiversity (e.g. animal diversity, fresh water biodiversity, marine biodiversity, microbial diversity, plant diversity, tropical rain forest, wild life conservation, mangrove swamp, wildlife inventory, fungal diversity, bacterial diversity, algal diversity, seaweed diversity, plankton diversity, DNA archiving, flora conservation, conservation of rare and endangered species), bioactive products (e.g. animal products, marine products, microbial products, phytochemicals, mycomedicinal), industrial raw materials (e.g. agro waste, clay, granite, hydrocarbons, limestone, marble, silica, wood, agro products), mineral resource (inclusive of metallics and non-metallics), marine living resources (e.g. mangroves, coral reefs, seaweeds and seagrasses, finfish, shellfish and crustaceans, marine mammals, marine turtles & reptiles, Endangered species, sea birds, marine invertebrates, planktons, marine microbes), marine non- living resources (e.g. oil & gas, marine sediment, sea water, marine minerals), resources utilization (e.g. maintenance of environmental conditions, rehabilitation of natural resources) and natural resource accounting (e.g. carbon, recreation, ecotourism, aesthetic and soil nutrient)
