We explain what resources are and what their essential characteristics are. In addition, the natural, economic and literary resources.
What are resources?
In very general terms, a resource is an instrument, a medium or a good that serves, in a context determined, to achieve a objective proposed. It is a word of very common use in many fields, especially in the economic and industrial, and that comes etymologically from Latin recursus, composed of the prefix re- (“backwards” or “again”) and cursus ("Career", "course").
Resources are always an essential part of a entrepreneurship or a project of any kind, and in general they usually have three essential characteristics:
- They have a utility, which is determined by their very nature and by the context in which they are required.
- They are available, that is, the human being You can go to them, either directly or indirectly, and with more or less work.
- They are consumed or depleted in their use, especially when it comes to supplies destined to feed a transformation process, such as the raw material.
Natural resources
The natural resources are the set of elements available in the environment that allow the subsistence and development of living beings, serving as an energy supply for their biological needs. In addition, they have productive potential, that is, they can serve as raw material for some type of industry, undergoing certain controlled transformation processes.
Examples of natural resources are oxygen, sunlight, the Water, but also the wood of the trees, the fruits they produce, or the meat of breeding animals. Many of them arise spontaneously, without the need for human intervention, while others require certain harvesting or harvesting mechanisms to be economically useful.
Natural resources can be classified into two, according to their availability and depletion margin:
- Renewable resourcesThose whose natural replenishment rate is so fast that they can be replenished faster than human beings consume them, so that they are not exhausted in their use. For example: wind, sunlight, hydroelectric power, or certain agricultural products.
- Nonrenewable resourcesThose whose natural replenishment rate is so slow that if consumed indiscriminately, they run the risk of running out. For example, him Petroleum, uranium, mineral coal, natural gas and others hydrocarbons.
Economic resources
Scarce financial resources require strict administration.
In the field of economy, resources are considered to be all assets or servicestangible or not, required to fuel the productive process, either raw material or secondary inputs. For that reason, they are considered part of the productive factors that require the Business or organizations of different kinds.
In general, economic resources are characterized by having a specific objective within the production chain, being transferable, easily accessible and given in limited quantities. Some of them come from the nature, others from different industrial processes, and others from society itself, and therefore can be classified in two different ways:
Depending on your availability, you can differentiate between:
- Scarce resources: When their number is finite and they run the risk of being depleted, thus requiring strict administration.
- Abundant resources: When they exist in large quantities, they allow continuous replenishment.
- Super abundant resources: When they exist in virtually unlimited quantities, at least from the point of view of human life.
Depending on your property, you can differentiate between:
- Own resources: When they are generated by the company or organization itself.
- External resources: When they come from third parties.
Examples of economic resources are: raw material, electric power, the workforce, tools and work machinery, etc.
Literary resources
In drafting Y literature, are known as literary resources to all the procedures of writing available to an author, with which he can enhance the expressiveness and beauty of his work, since they consist of original manipulations of the language (oral or written).
Literary resources can be, in general, of three types, according to the type of procedure they involve in the language:
- Phonic literary devices, when they work with the sound language, that is, when they modify their musicality, their rhythm or its cadence, to achieve more original sound effects. Examples of them are: alliteration, the onomatopoeia or paronomasia.
- Grammar literary resources, when working with morphosyntax (morphology and syntax) of idiom, altering the common order of sentences or interrupting their customary structure. Examples of them are: anaphora, concatenation, asyndeton and the polysyndeton.
- Semantic literary resources, when they work with the meaning of the words, more than with its shape. Examples of them are: antithesis, the apostrophe, the metaphor, the hyperbaton or the hyperbole.