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The challenge of resource management - Coggle Diagram
The challenge of resource management
An example to show how the extraction of fossil fuel has both advantages and disadvantages
Trans-alaskan pipeline service (TAPS)
1300km pipeline
In Alaska
Advantages
Cheaper energy
Transports 13% of the nation's domestic oil production
Disadvantages
Disrupts caribou migration paths
Melting of permafrost releases methane
Expensive to maintain / build
An example of a local renewable energy scheme in an LIC or NEE to provide sustainable supplies of energy
Chambamontera (Peru)
Where
Isoalted community
Andes mountains, Peru
What
Micro - hydro system
Harnesses water to generate HEP
Sustainable
Bypass channels water away from river to generate electricity, then returns it to river
Flow can be regulated
High rainnfall + steep slopes + fast flowing rivers
Easy to exploit water power
Why
High rainfall
Steep slopes
Fast flowing rivers
Benefits
Social
Street lights allow people to go out after dark
Can store medicines and vaccines
Economic
Business developments such as coffee de-husking
Environmental
Reduced danger of flooding (flow can be regulated)
Reduced deforestation / soil erosion as wood doesn't need to be burned as a heat source