ABSTRACT
This chapter presents different forms of resource management in a Hungarian micro-region. Analysing methods of resource management in the Meztr micro-region, we focus on two main types of resources: natural and cultural. Conventional resource management encompasses methods which do not assure the sustainability of resources over the long term: over-use of soil, damage to the natural environment, but also methods which take no care of the sustainability of local communities. Conventional resource management typically overuses both cultural and natural resources, and does not consider the long-term effects of its activity on local social relations or human capital. Innovative natural management connected to agriculture aims at market-oriented production but with concern for nature, as in the case of a limited company studied for CORASON that illustrates how big enterprises can participate in the process of nature protection. The cultural tradition of the micro-region is manifested in the region's pottery.
