The sustainability of metal resources | Earth Resources | meriSTEM
Channel: meriSTEM Education
Date: 2021-09-03

Professor Richard Arculus from the Australian National University (anu.edu.au) looks at the sustainability of metal resources. This is part of a series of videos on how human activities affect sustainability.

This clip has been created by the Research School of Earth Sciences (rses.anu.edu.au). These resources are part of a comprehensive program, curriculum matched to the unit 'Unit 3 Living on Earth - extracting, using and managing Earth resources'.

This video touches on the following curriculum descriptors: 

The abundance of a renewable resource and how readily it can be replenished influence the rate at which it can be sustainably used at local, regional and global scales (ACSES078)

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This video is part of meriSTEM Australian senior science educational resources (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Email the team (contact.meristem@anu.edu.au) for further information, course access and curriculum links.