Societal Transformation Projects and the Role and Influence of Human Factors on Natural Resources (RIHFNR)

Abstract

Societal transformation projects (simply a Project) take very long-time and are complex to achieve. Such Projects depend on many domains, and especially on the Human Factor (HF). The Role and Influence of HF on Natural Resources (RIHFNR) is determinant. A Project has many cycles and depends on the Speed of Change (SoC); and other related societal fundaments and factors. Actually, the RIHFNR has inflicted much damage to the environment and the exponential use of Natural Resources (NR) have created a historical global societal crisis. A Project has an archaic societal composition, many dependencies, and other related factors that have to be correlated. In this chapter the influence of major societal, environment/resources, geopolitical changes, management technics, and events are analyzed. Projects' (like all other types of transformations) related research activities, depend on the selected Critical Success Areas (CSA), which are the following: 1) Rate, cycles, and speed of changes and the effects on NR; 2) HF and societal values that are relevant; 3) Levels and types of NRs; 4) The roles of Demography, cultures, religions, and historical backgrounds; 5) The role of technologies; 6) Ethical, governance, and legal system; 7) HF's managements' profile and capabilities; 8) The roles of financial and resources management; 9) Mitigating NR risks; 10) The roles of conflicts, and ecology; 11) Societal policies; 12) Globally defined objectives; 13) Role of geopolitical changes events; 14) Weapons of mass destruction; 15) The role of democracy and civilized behavior; 16) The role and effects of extreme crisis; and 17) Applied research method. This chapter uses the author's Applied Holistic Mathematical Model (AHMM) to support Societal/Geopolitical Analysis (SA) for eXtreme Crisis (XC) (Trad, & Kalpić, 2019a). SA needs a cross-functional/domain and Polymathic concept that is abstracted with the SA Concept (SAC) for XC (SAC4XC), like in many XC related cases that result from the RIHFNR like, massive immigrations, Pandemics/COVID-19, global reginal wars, and major financial crisis/crashes (Trad, 2022a).