Classifying resources
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- Created on: 23-04-14 20:57
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- How can resources be classified and defined?
- Resource use today
- 1/3 of the planet's resources have been used in past 30 years
- U.S uses 30% of global resources, with 5% of population
- 99% of goods in the U.S are thrown away within 6 months
- U.S spend 3 to 4 times longer shopping than people in Europe
- U.S people produce 2 x as much waste today than 30 years ago
- Ways of classifying resources
- By source
- Hydrospheric
- Lithospheric
- Biospheric
- Atmospheric
- By use
- Extent
- Point
- Diffuse
- Renewability
- By source
- Renewable resources
- Fully renewable resources that will never run out
- Flow resources
- Wind
- Solar
- Wave
- Geothermal
- Tidal
- Biotic
- Crops
- Domestic livestock
- Wildlife
- Semi-renewable resources
- Soil
- Timber
- Air
- Fish
- Pete
- Non renewable resources
- Metallic minerals
- Fossil fuels
- Other minerals
- U.S Oil
- $1.83 trillion in 2011
- Oil used to be just for use in the USA
- Changes in technology have increased extraction figures, and lead to oil as an economic resource now
- Caribbean and Maldives
- Tourism accounts for 80% of GDP
- Changes in technology and lifestyle have increased tourism over the past decade by 50%
- People and tourism have now become a resource
- Resource use today
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