GEOG 2425 Lecture 1: Geography 2425 Notes For ALL Lectures
27 Feb 2018
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Anything that is regarded as potentially useful, for any purpose. Includes fish, marine mammals, kelp, beach sand, minerals, rocks, people, seawater, and almost anything else you could name. Different people regard different materials as resources (or not). People may consider the same object as a resource in one context and not in another. Horses can be used for transportation, pleasure, recreation, physical power, but not a food resource (except in times of dire necessity). Cattle on the other hand can be considered as a spiritual resource, not a food resource. Icelanders did not consume capelin until the 19th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tu(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:271)out the ti(cid:373)e that. British people decided that tomatoes were not poisonous. Crustacean shells as a resource for pharmaceutical manufacture. After extracting the meat (or before), shells are ground and chitin processed. Chitin is metabolized by humans to form glucose. C(cid:396)a(cid:271)s (cid:272)a(cid:374) also (cid:271)e p(cid:396)o(cid:272)essed i(cid:374)to po(cid:449)de(cid:396)ed (cid:862)(cid:373)eal(cid:863).
