Describe, with examples, the influences of cultural values, level of technology, and economic systems on natural resource value
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Cultural values is when a resource is culturally important, such as the perceptual change of swamps to wetlands. Level of technology means that you have to have the technology to both gather the resources and process them into the needed form (petroleum to plastics). Economic Systems is that it must be profitable to gather and use the resources (sea floor extraction of petroleum for low priced gasoline).
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