[ES290] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (12 pages long)
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Lesson 1: population growth and resources de nitions and types of resources/ scarcity. Resources are not, they become therefore can be created/destroyed: created= changing attitudes in society/ tech discoveries, destroyed= by changes in tech that makes a substance less useful/ or in course of use. **perceptions of resources change through time/view point of individual : culture= human attitudes, values and tech/organizational bailies and social/political relationships are critical when de ning resources. **the interaction between culture and nature is what. Defines environmental resources*: zimmerman"s depiction of "man, culture and nature" has been adapted to show this relationship between humans and nature. Renewable naturally regenerate so long as their capacity for doing so is not irreversibly damaged aka ow resources . Non-renewable available in speci c places and only in nite quantities because the rate at which they regenerate is low on the timescale of the human perspective (gas/oil) stock . Continuous will never run out (solar energy/wind)