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Resource Management - Coggle Diagram
Resource Management
Managing Resources
Resources
Food:
- We need to eat 2000 - 2400 calories a day to be healthy.
- Creates jobs (farmer, shop workers, restaurants).
- We need to be well fed to work and earn money.
Water:
- Essential to survive.
- Source of power.
- Vital for crops.
- Important for well being for jobs.
- Crops make farmers money.
- Power businesses.
- Creates jobs (capture, storing).
- By 2025, 50 countries will have water scarcity.
Energy:
- We need energy for power (cookers, computers, factories).
- We need it for heat and transport.
- Jobs created in factories.
- People are trading energy across the world for money.
4000 cubic km of water are used by people each year around the world for domestic, agricultural and industrial uses.
Resources are unevenly distributed around the world. China, India and the US use the most water, but the water per person is around 3 time higher in the US than India and China.
Generally HICs have plentiful supplies and can afford to import resources to overcome any shortages. Many LICs lack essential resources and can't afford to import them.
2000 - 2400 calories is the recommended allowance, but over two billion fall below this level and are malnourished.
Another 2 billion people suffer from undernutrition, which is a poor diet lacking in minerals and vitamins.
Importing Resources
The UK imports about 40% of the food it consumes, and this percentage is increasing.
This is because:
- UK climate is unsuitable for production of some foods,
- Demand for exotic and seasonal produce all year round.
- Availability of cheaper food from abroad.
Food Distribution
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Describe the inequality in the global scarcity of water (6 marks)
Using the map, I can see that large areas of the world have no scarcity issues such as North America, Europe and large parts of South America. In contrast, most of central Africa and Northern India cannot afford to supply water to the region. Most countries that don't physically have enough water are close to the equator with the exception of some parts of Australia.
Describe the inequality of food consumption (6 marks)
The map shows that the majority of the countries in the northern hemisphere have plentiful amounts of food, including Russia, North America and most of Europe. On the other hand, in most of central Africa 20 - 30% of the population is undernourished.
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