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Species in Danger of Extinction

open access: yesEDIS, 2003
This publication was produced by the Center for Natural Resources at the University of Florida. CNR 6 is part of a Program Summary Series. First published: September 2000. Minor revision: March 2003.
Center for Natural Resources
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Ecotourism

open access: yesEDIS, 2003
Though the concept of nature-based tourism is not new, the term "ecotourism" is. Once referred to as "green travel", ecotourism is defined as a "recreational and educational experience that encourages greater understanding of the natural and cultural ...
Center for Natural Resources
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Impact of natural resources, trade openness, and economic growth on CO2 emissions in oil‐exporting countries: A panel autoregressive distributed lag analysis

open access: yesNatural resources forum (Print), 2023
This study explores the impact of natural resource exploitation, trade openness, and economic growth on carbon emissions in a sample of oil‐exporting nations for the period 1971–2014.
Tarek Ghazouani, S. Maktouf
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Natural Resources and Reforms [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
The authors use a sample of 133 countries to investigate the link between the abundance of natural resources and micro-economic reforms. Previous studies suggest that natural resource abundance gives rise to governments that are less accountable to the public and states that are oligarchic, and that it leads to the erosion of social capital.
Amin, Mohammad, Djankov, Simeon
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Alternative energy and natural resources in determining environmental sustainability: a look at the role of government final consumption expenditures in France

open access: yesEnvironmental science and pollution research international, 2022
The global community is concerned about several environmental changes. Climate change, desertification, destruction of tropical rainforests, erosion of coastal ecosystems, soil resource loss, overfishing, species extinction, and loss of biodiversity are ...
W. Azam, Irfan Khan, Syed Ahtsham Ali
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do natural resources abundance and human capital development promote economic growth? A study on the resource curse hypothesis in Next Eleven countries

open access: yesResources, Environment and Sustainability, 2021
This study aims to analyse the effects of natural resources, human capital, financial development, industrialization, technological progress, and international trade on the economic growth of the Next Eleven countries between 1990 and 2019.
Syed Rahim   +6 more
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College of Natural Resources (Quarterly) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This is the quarterly news magazine of Virginia Tech's College of Natural ...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Natural Resources
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Environmental Education

open access: yesEDIS, 2003
Environmental education (EE) is a discipline that helps create a citizenry that is knowledgeable, motivated and committed to taking appropriate action concerning environmental issues.
Center for Natural Resources   +2 more
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The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Choice, 2010
The paper analyses the impact of natural resource abundance on selected governance indicators. In contrast to earlier studies that are mainly confined to cross-sectional analysis, we use a panel data set with a large number of countries and an extended period of time.
Busse, Matthias, Gröning, Steffen
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Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse? [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis other variables such as corruption, investments, openness, terms of trade, and schooling, and treating these ...
Elissaios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh
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