1. ESS Topic 3 Resources: Lesson 2
Key Concepts:
Renewable, replenishable, non-renewable.
Assessment Statements 3.2.2

2. Recap: What is natural capital?

3. Renewable Natural Capital
What does this term mean? Can you come up with an example of this, and explain why you think it is natural capital? “Resources that are self-produced, self-maintained and self-regulated, using solar energy or photosynthesis, eg living species and ecosystems”.

4. Trees: Goods and Services?
DEFINE: Goods and Services, then give some examples of each…

5. Replenishable Capital
“Non-living, but dependent on the solar engine for renewal”.
Groundwater
What is it?
What factors might affect the amount / location of groundwater?
Why is it not ‘self-regulating’ like renewable capital?

6. Non-renewable Capital
Why are these non-renewable?
Only renewable on a geological timescale.
This capital is FINITE as its use is far greater than its slow regeneration process. Any use can be considered a depletion of the total capital inventory.
Identify your own example of non-renewable natural capital, and explain why.