GEOG 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linkedin
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Own definition --> natural resources are resources that are extracted from earth"s existing materials, without any anthropogenic influence or any impact onto existing ecosystems within the biosphere. Resources are resources that are extracted via natural processes but is renewable in a sustainable manner. Resource: anything that can be useful to us humans. Anthropocentric: defined relative to people and what humans use/wants --> what humans decide. Instrumental: could also be defined as our use and wants, useful to us as humans. Relative: also could be defined with respect to human needs, desires and cultural/technological practices --> thus what is a resource now becomes something that we don"t need or want any more, and is influenced according to technological/cultural changes. Resources also change with time --> they are dependent on specific needs of people in a particular time, they are also dependent on. They are connected to other things which create spatial.
