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indicated reserves, inferred resources, possible resources. Natural resource development over time: exploration, exploitation, development. Concept of the resource frontier. Concept of resource peak. Sustainable resource development. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in relation to resource development projects. Research using the internet. Develop an awareness that different people and groups have conflicting demands on resources and the environment and that compromises may have to be made between the different demands. local, regional, national and/or global factors affecting the supply of the resources development of technologies affecting the demand for and the supply of resources the effect of sources and flows of capital on the development of resources. Understand how the above factors combine to affect the levels of exploration, development, exploitation and decline of resources over time. Understand that the development of resources has to take into account both the present levels of demand and the possible long-term demands for that resource. Understand that the development of any resource has implications for the environment – both the physical and the human – and that responsible developers will take those implications into consideration when planning the resources exploitation. Make and justify classifications of resources. Students can take this further and look at practical definitions as used in the mining industry at a variety of sites in the ‘Resources’ column. Students work in small groups to research the concepts of: resource frontier resource peak (possibly followed by a discussion of whether this is a useful concept, and how it could be used by different interest groups) sustainable resource development (possibly followed by a discussion of how this concept differs from, and builds from. the more concept of 'sustainable development'). Students could study guidance for carrying out an EIA and consider how this might be applied in a development scheme that has been suggested in the useful ideas for geographers. For a discussion of the concept of 'Peak Oil’, compare two sites: Read and then go to for further development of ideas. (directed at real commercial or government organisations) can be on the flow chart.
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