resource management
Controlling available means
Resource management is the planning and allocation of assets—money, people, time, materials, equipment—to accomplish goals efficiently.
The term appears across business, computing, and environmental contexts: The project failed due to poor resource management.
In video games, resource management describes strategic decisions about limited supplies: Survival horror games emphasize resource management over combat.
- project planningStructuring work before starting
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- land useHow terrain is allocated
- water rightsLegal allocation of H2O
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
strategy · sustainable development · agriculture · renewable energy · scarcity · living within means · energy transition · environmental stewardship · carrying capacity · fisheries · forestry · biodiversity · mitigation · recycling · zero waste · stewardship · workforce · logistics
- RPG designgame balance, player agency, worldbuilding, house rules, homebrew
- tabletop gamesboard games, board game, card games, card game, backgammon
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- game mechanicslevels, rules, cooldown, points, health points
- managementmanagers, executives, boss, supervisors, directors
- game activitiescooking, crafting, farming, fishing, mining
resource managementwaste
Unwanted discarded material
squandering · wastefulness · profligacy · extravagance · mismanagement
resource managementmismanagement
Incompetent handling of responsibilities
chaos · disorganization · neglect · misallocation · maladministration
resource managementresource depletion
Exhausting available materials gradually
exploitation · exhaustion · overconsumption · environmental degradation · pillaging
resource, management, resources, resourceful, resourcefulness, sourcing, outsource, outsourced, resourcing