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2.3. Conservation of Natural Resources

In order to promote sustainable development, we need to integrate economic development with environmental concerns. In method of conventional usage of natural resources, there has been large amount of wastage and many environmental problems. Hence, for sustainable development, there is an urgent need to conserve the resources. The alternative energy sources like solar power, wind, wave, geothermal energy are inexhaustible resource and should be developed to replace the exhaustible resources.