Resource_Consumption_Patterns

= = =Patterns in Resource Consumption=

**SYLLABUS REQUIREMENTS**

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 * **Patterns of resource consumption** || Evaluate the ecological footprint as a measure of the relationship between population size and resource consumption. Identify international variations in its size. Discuss the two opposing views (neo-Malthusian and anti-Malthusian) of the relationship between population size and resource consumption.
 * 4 hours** ||
 * **Changing patterns of energy consumption** || Analyse the global patterns and trends in the production and consumption of oil.
 * 2 hours** ||
 * **Changing patterns of energy consumption** || Examine the geopolitical and environmental impacts of these changes in patterns and trends. Examine the changing importance of other energy sources.
 * 6 hours** ||
 * **Conservation strategies** || Discuss the reduction of resource consumption by conservation, waste reduction, recycling and substitution. Evaluate a strategy at a local or national scale aimed at reducing the consumption of one resource.
 * 4 hours** ||

[[image:resources.png]]TEXTBOOK RESOURCES
Chapter 5 Population Policies and Food Supply in Population, Resources and Development by Jane Chrispin and Francis Jegede ||
 * ** • patterns of resource consumption** || Planet Geography Second Edition Will Resources Run Out? p.48-52
 * ** • changing patterns of energy consumption** || Planet Geography Second Edition Lack of Coincidence Between Areas of Production and Consumption Oil p. 54-58 ||
 * ** • changing patterns of energy consumption** || Planet Geography Second Edition Lack of Coincidence Between Areas of Production and Consumption Oil p. 54-58 ||
 * ** • conservation strategies** || Planet Geography Second Edition Recycling of Natural Resources p. 69-74 ||