The challenge of resource management

• WHO


  World health organisation
• Economic wellbeing


  A person or families standard of living based primarily on their financial state

  Measured by the government to determine how their citizens are faring
• Social wellbeing 


  The access to items which improve the quality of life, such as health, sanitation, education, transport and community
• Provisions 


  The availability of resources
• Food Miles


  The distance that food travels from where it grows to where it’s consumed
• Agribusiness 


  Intensive farming, aimed at minimising the input and maximising the output of food produced. Farms are run as a commercial business
• Organic farming 


  Grown without the use of chemicals, often associated with buying local produce and producing seasonal food
• Surplus


  When the supply of resources outweighs the demand of resources
• Deficit


  When the demand of resources outweighs the supply of resources
• Water transfer 


  The movement of water from areas of surplus to deficit
• Carbon footprint


  Measure of the impact that human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases they produce