{"id":98,"date":"2014-06-13T19:40:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=98"},"modified":"2014-08-28T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:33:00","slug":"5-2-introduction","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/chapter\/5-2-introduction\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"Although all living organisms require biological resources (<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">such as food, water or shelter), it is the human\u00a0perspective of a\u00a0<\/span>natural resource<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">\u00a0as anything obtained from the\u00a0<\/span>environment<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">\u00a0to satisfy human needs and wants that gives\u00a0the term\u00a0its importance in the context of Geography. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">British Columbia is rich in natural resources including l<\/span>umber, copper, coal, natural gas, oil, zinc, gold, silver, nickel, iron and fish. As resource extraction is directly linked to land use and territory, what does this mean for\u00a0issues of ownership for First Nations communities, and for the sustainability of the environment for BC residents more broadly?\r\n\r\nThe focus of this chapter is on contemporary extraction resource industries and their impact.","rendered":"<p>Although all living organisms require biological resources (<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">such as food, water or shelter), it is the human\u00a0perspective of a\u00a0<\/span>natural resource<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">\u00a0as anything obtained from the\u00a0<\/span>environment<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">\u00a0to satisfy human needs and wants that gives\u00a0the term\u00a0its importance in the context of Geography. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #252525;\">British Columbia is rich in natural resources including l<\/span>umber, copper, coal, natural gas, oil, zinc, gold, silver, nickel, iron and fish. As resource extraction is directly linked to land use and territory, what does this mean for\u00a0issues of ownership for First Nations communities, and for the sustainability of the environment for BC residents more broadly?<\/p>\n<p>The focus of this chapter is on contemporary extraction resource industries and their impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-98","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":241,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/98\/revisions\/1227"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/241"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/98\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}