https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47 Natural Resource Use en-us 2017-08-20 04:52:22 UTC 2025-10-23 00:54:10 UTC hello@padlet.com kad997 https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745300 2017-08-20 04:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745300 kad997 https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745327 - The price of resources rarely stays constant for long and is determined largely by availability and need.
- Assuming there is a demand for a particular good, its price will be largely dependent on the level of supply.
- E.g. The price a grower receives for wheat is determined by the price mechanism. As supply increases or demand drops, the price of wheat drops]]> 2017-08-20 04:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745327 kad997 https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745332 - The ability of Aboriginal Australians to fashion spear tips and other artefacts from quartz represented a major technological achievement at that particular stage of human history.
- Technology can impact on natural resources by creating or stimulating demand. It may also improve the supply of materials by developing extraction and processing techniques and reducing production costs.]]> 2017-08-20 04:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745332 kad997 https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745356 - Aspects of culture may range from religions to myths, and from appreciation of landscape to appreciation of the quality of certain woods or minerals for production.These cultural factors impact on people's perspective of what constitutes a resource.
- In some countries such as PNG, the eating of pork has special celebratory significance, whereas it is forbidden to Jews and Muslims.]]> 2017-08-20 04:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745356 kad997 https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745374 - Many individuals have urged restraint in the growth of population and consumption of natural resources, particularly in regards to the mismanagement of resources. 
- Unless the long-term, safe disposal of nuclear waste can be proven possible, nuclear fuel may lose its resource value.

]]> 2017-08-20 04:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745374 kad997 https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745386 - For Strategic, economic and/or political reasons, governments may actively promote the exploitation of natural resources, particularly in unpopulated areas, or areas with high unemployment.
- To reduce Australia's reliance on imported cotton, the Federal Government in the 1960s offered a bounty on locally produced cotton. This lead to the construction of large dams and the eventual transformation of large grazing holdings into intensively irrigated cotton farms.]]> 2017-08-20 04:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kad997/ac9i6llhti47/wish/181745386