3.1.2 Raw Material Production

Definition: The creation, collection, or extraction of raw material for the production of goods and services, especially directly from the natural environment. This includes all activities such as harvesting, mining, lumbering, fishing, etc.

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Raw Material Production Categories:

3.1.2.1 Appreciation: An increase in value or price. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)

3.1.2.2 Extraction of NonRenewable Resources: Removal of raw material from its original location, especially from the natural environment. This covers all mining, drilling, and similar activities. (Definition Source: None)

3.1.2.3 Harvesting of Biota: The removal or food or fiber from an ecosystem. This includes the removal of food and fiber from agricultural lands. (Definition Source: None)

3.1.2.4 Introduction of Biota: Deliberate placing of species into an ecosystem to increase the yeild of a harvest. This includes planting on agricultural lands, replanting trees, and stocking fish in streams and lakes. This also includes the introduction of exotics species (species not native to a particular ecosystem). (Definition Source: None)

3.1.2.5 Landscape and Habitat Alteration: Human activities that modify an ecosystem. This includes conversion of land into urban or agricultural areas. This also includes inintentional alteration of land do to overuse, dams, etc. (Definition Source: None)

3.1.2.6 Resource Development: Conversion of a known resources into a useable resource through the introduction of man-made capital. Such man-made capital includes roads, tunnels, pipilines, etc. This includes the expansion of a known resource through advancements in the technology used to extract it. (Definition Source: None)

3.1.2.7 Resource Discovery: The search for new sources of specific resources. This includes all exploritory drilling and mining. This also includes convassing of biota for sources of chemicals. (Definition Source: None)