These Notes Provide A Thorough Overview And In-depth Summary Of The Sustainable Resources And Energy Section For IEB Geography Learners Covering All Aspects Of The Topic Listed In The IEB SAGS Document.
, Resources and sustainability
What are resources: anything in the environment that can be used to meet the needs of humans
Resources
Natural resources Human resources
Land, soil, forest, water, air Labor, People need to make food, provide services
Eg. Teaching, doctors
Non- renewable
Will not be replaced after Renewable
having been used up Resources that are being continuously being
replaced by natural cycle
Fossil fuels Minerals Sustainable
Coal, oil, natural gas Copper/gold
Continuous
water
forests
• Resources - unevenly spread and consumed • Resource depletion: resources are over-
across the world. utilized and become scarce
• Access and use of resources is an indicator
to a country’s development • Graphs showing resource depletion and
resource exploitations
• Demand for resources has increased
- Direct: two values increase or decrease at the
because of:
same time EG. Wood decreases, paper
- Uncontrolled economic growth: industries
decreases
consume a lot of expensive resources
- Inverse: one value increases and the other
- Population growth: people use resources
decreases EG. Food decreases, famine
increases
• Increase in demand leads to:
- Delayed relationship: direct and inverse
- Resource shortage- poverty
relationships are delayed
- Food shortage- famine
EG. Industrial and population
- Pollution, waste, environmental destruction
- No relationship: no connection between
values
• Optimum population: a country that has
enough resources to provide a decent
• Strategies to implement to mitigate resource
standard of living to its entire population
depletion:
- Recycling, reuse, waste management
• Overpopulation: too many people for the
- Alternate forms of energy solar
number of resources that are available
- Population control
- Moving away from mass consumption, End to
• Carrying capacity: maximum number of
globalization
people a place can support before its
- Sustainable lifestyle
resources start to run out
- Targets, quotas, protocols, incentives
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