Resource management Flashcards

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Social importance of water

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Basic requirement to sustain life
It is needed to dispose of waste grow and process food and manufacture industrial products
In the uk each person usws around 150 litres a day
75% on the industry and 22 for domestic 3 agriculture

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Social and economic importance of food

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Requirements for a healthy life
Some people need more calories and some different environments
Eg cold weather
Mostly LIC is mostly L. ICs consume fewer calories which affects their well-being.
H,ICs can consume 40 many calories in suffering obesity, which also affects well-being.

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Social and economic significance of energy

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The introduction of machinery during the agricultural industry revolution, led to huge improvement in economic and social well-being
Traditional forms of energy involves find forward in fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas nuclear power plants generate, electricity, increasingly renewable energy, such as water, wind and solar are being used to sustain. Our energy needs global energy. Consumption is heavily dominated by the use of fossil feels

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An overview of resources in relation to the UK

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The UK has a resource, surplus, accounting for early economic development and relatively high level of well-being for most people
Food – the UK has a moderate climate strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean with plenty of rainfall, and my mild temperatures, benefiting from generally photocells, gentle relief and advanced technologies. UK is one of the worlds, most efficient, producers of
Water – despite an imbalance of supply and demand within the UK, water supply is really an issue
Energy – the UK has large resources are fossil fuels, several nuclear power plants and the potential for a range of renewable energies. For example, in 2017, total garage was announced in Swansea Bay

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I challenging food demand in the UK

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The U.K.’s population is rising, which increases the U.K.’s demand for food

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Demand for high-value food exports

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It can still be cheaper for food to be grown in low income countries and transported to the UK despite increasing food miles high value foods, e.g. Madagascan vanilla can have higher retail prices than you
Low income countries benefit from wages from locals working in farming, packaging and transport, raise taxes which fund facilities such as schools and hospitals
However, it means there’s less land for like us to bring their own food pressure on the water supplies and farmers. Can we expect the chemical pesticides without protective clothing?

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Why is there an all year demand for seasonal food?

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Before supermarkets, the majority of food is in the UK with seasonal and Sauce in the UK FaceTime for strawberries only in the summer. Some food cannot be grown in the U.K.’s climate zone. Is the UK now do I is Grace 💗 choice of foods all year round and he’s must be imported from other countries.

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Demand for organic produce

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I demand for organic produce has been rising since 1990s consumers want to choose food that has a less negative impact on the environment and is healthier. Instead of chemical pesticides organic produce is grown using natural predators, natural fertilisers crops on rotation and animals that are not fed drugs.

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The U.K.’s, global footprint

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In the UK food travels over 30,000,000,000 km. Every year is contributes to LE 17% of the U.K.’s carbon dioxide emissions which 11%. If you do the transport of imported food. This increases the UK is carbon footprint
Some fruits grown in the UK, have a larger carbon foot print them. If food were to be imported. It’s because demand Bing produce such as tomatoes all year round requires heater. Greenhouses rise countries of warmer climates require no additional heating does reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Planes generate emissions are in 100 times greater than boats boats are slower so high-value perishable foods are generally transported by plane .

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Sourcing local food to reduce carbon emissions

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Local food sourcing reduces carbon emissions by
Importing only food store, unable to be grown in the UK
Eating
Eating locally produced food from local farmers markets or farm shops
How much grown food

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Agribusiness

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Treating farming like a large, industrial business increases food production, the size of the font of increased by removing hedgerows, combining small farms and increased use of my mechanisation and chemicals
Agribusinesses package and transport the food, however, employment in agriculture declined and there is a negative impact on the environment

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Changing demand for water

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Female of water used by the average household in the UK, has risen by 70% since 1985 and it is predicted to rise. 5% by 2020 are going to month of water is due to an increase in
UK population
Wealth, which means we can have more water intensive appliances
Showers and baths taken each week
Demand for out of season food
Industrial production
Leisure use e.g. golf courses

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Where are the areas of water deficit and surplus in the UK

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Are you can receive enough room for to meet the demand for water unfortunately, the rainfall does not occur evenly throughout the UK or where the most people are annual rainfall is greatest in the west of the UK. Well in the east of UK has a lower average rate for one third of the U.K.’s population lives in the south-east, which is the driest part of the UK.
Therefore, in the areas of the west, the most rainfall have lower population densities, so areas of surplus the areas of the east of the UK to have the least before, but a high population density it is an area of water deficit. What does stress occurs when the water available is not sufficient to meet the needs of the population or is a poor quality.

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The need for transfer to maintain supplies for water. I don’t know I love you do you wanna hold my hand okay let me come back like not meg my God stop you’re gonna fall off nut meg nut meg

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To match the supplies of water and where they are and where the demand for them is the UK requires water transfer. The UK government has considered a national water grid so what if I feel part from Harry is a surplus tears of deficit, but it has not been put in place yet due to large economic costs to install large communities being displaced, dams and brothers, wars, disrupting, ecology and blocking migrating species and increased carbon emissions

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Quality and pollution in the UK

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Causes of water pollution, chemical pesticides and fertilisers running from farmland hot water from cooling processes in Indian history pumped into rivers, oil from boats and ships, untreated waste oil. Heavy metals from vehicle exhausts, sewage, containing bacteria and inappropriate items put down drains

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Effects of water pollution in the UK

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Pesticides can kill aquatic life.
Fertilisers can speed up the growth of algae and leave eutrophication.
Increased water temperatures can lead to death of wildlife.
Toxic waste poisonous wildlife and can be transferred to humans. If they eat it causing birth defects and cancer.
Drinking water can be poisonous.
Micro bacteria and sewage spreads infectious diseases in aquatic life and humans.
Fisherman in the tourist industry suffered, economic loss, 

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How is water, quality and pollution levels managed in the UK

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Legislation in the UK, and the EU means the strict laws that limit the amount of type of discharge factories and farms compound rivers
Education campaign from the public about what is appropriate and not to dispose of in sewage systems
Waste water treatment, plant, remove waste, solids bacteria, algae chemicals
Investing in sewers and main watermain produces overflow
Pollution, traps such as read bed, catch and filter out
Green roof, some buildings, shelter at pollutants in rainwater

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Changing energy mix in the UK

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The demand is less than before free sample energy is less than it was in 1970, even though there were 6.5 million more people. The average household use is 12% less energy.
In 2015, the majority of the U.K.’s energy mix the fossil fuels which are nonrenewable CO2 contributing to
Nuclear power provide just under a fifth of the U.K.’s energy mix it’s not renewable but does not contribute to global warming
Renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar provide just over a fifth of the U.K.’s energy mix which they do not contribute to climate change

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Reliance on fossil feels in the UK

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Until recently, the UK has produced enough energy to power homes in industry with large reserves of oil and gas reserves have declined and there is an increase reliance on imported fossil fuels. Suppliers can still be exploited and less accessible areas, but it’s costly in 2011: increased as old power stations work to full capacity as they were seem to be closed due to European Union regulations on emissions nuclear energy has fallen slightly since the 1990s existing nuclear power stations close by 2023 New generation plant should be built and working by 20, 25,25

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Growing significance of renewables energy in the UK

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Renewable energy such as wind and solar occurring insignificance, but they’re only a small percentage of energy produced. When you guys are encouraged by the British government to meet targets to reduce carbon emissions and rely on imports

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What are the issues with exploiting energy sources?

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Energy exploration of new or existing sources of energy in order to gain energy, security, exploitation, raises several challenges and issues. Their economic cost, as well as environmental impacts.

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Nonrenewable energy resources

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Fossil fuels and nuclear

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Fossil feels environmental issues and economic issues

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Nonrenewable, so unsustainable eventually will have the economic cost to be too high, a little run out.
Minus often suffer job related diseases, which incur costs to the health service.
Costs increased to do with the effects of climate change, adaption to

Common dioxide is released which contributes to climate change an acid rain
Oil spills can devastate wildlife in sea life
Where is visual pollution from coal waste and heaps of an slightly opencast, coal mines
Fracking for shale, gas, chemical is groundwater, pollution, and earthquakes

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Nuclear economic and environmental issues

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Nuclear plants are expensive to build Andy commission. Arterial is cheap in such a small amounts are used uranium
Cost of transport in store high nuclear waste of time

Oh waste remains radioactive over 100 years and had to be stored safely to avoid contamination
Despite a good release radiation into the atmosphere, which has long-term impacts on wildlife and people

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Renewable energy resources, economic and environmental issues

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Renewable energy has high setup costs such as wind, turbine, solar farms, hydroelectric, dams and tidal power cost can rise further in remote areas.
Biomass means land is not used for food production may increase the cost of food.
Tourism declines as environments lose their visual appeal result in job and income loss.
Low profit turbidity is a concern.

Many renewables, I considered ugly and ruin the views of countryside in coast.
Winter Bynes can affect bird migration of bat life
Hydroelectric dams, Floodland upstream, changing landscape affecting ecology
Biomass reduces biodiversity the can only grow one crop at time, for example, sugarcane
Do you thermal energy is limited to tectonically active countries, such as the USA and Iceland