sustained provided theproper management strategies are set in place and new ones are continuouslydeveloped and implemented.Question 2The spatial distribution of the world’s resources is inequitable. Humans haveno say or no hand in where the majority of natural resources are located. It isthe physical processes that brought about the appearance and the make up ofthe earth as we know it today that is the force behind the scatterednon-uniform distribution of worldwide natural resources. The maps belowillustrate the distribution of some examples of natural resources throughout theworld.The reason behind the differences between production and consumption ofnatural resources lies in the fact that the so called ‘North’ countries or thedeveloped countries industrialized early on and first. They then depleted theirlocal resource stocks temporally and were compelled to search elsewhere forthe resources to satisfy their needs. To do this they turned to the developingworld and exploited foreign resources. A cycle of supply and demand was soonafterward created, where the demand originated from the developed countrieswho saw the supply of cheap raw materials and cheap labor, and the supplyemanated from those the developing counties who sought to the capitaldevelop.Distribution and consumption evolved to be based on wealth. Access to andsupply of resources is granted to the country, corporation or company thatmakes the most lucrative offer. Typically the developed nations of the world arein a position to do this, but as discussed above, not locally. They have themeans to consume what is produced elsewhere. In percentage figures thistranslated to 90% of the world’s resources being consumed by 30% of theworld’s population.Technology has played a part in creating disparities between production andconsumption. Transportation carries resources all over the world, no longer isthere a need to locate near the resource you need to...
