{"id":80,"date":"2018-01-06T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T18:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=80"},"modified":"2018-01-06T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T18:28:51","slug":"introduction-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/chapter\/introduction-3\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"\n<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&nbsp;perspective of a&nbsp;<\/span>natural resource<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;color: #252525\">&nbsp;as anything obtained from the&nbsp;<\/span>environment<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;color: #252525\">&nbsp;to satisfy human needs and wants that gives&nbsp;the term&nbsp;its 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&nbsp;issues 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\n","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&nbsp;perspective of a&nbsp;<\/span>natural resource<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;color: #252525\">&nbsp;as anything obtained from the&nbsp;<\/span>environment<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;color: #252525\">&nbsp;to satisfy human needs and wants that gives&nbsp;the term&nbsp;its 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&nbsp;issues 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":265,"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-80","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":79,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80\/revisions\/223"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/79"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/80\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/geographyofbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}