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Species in Danger of Extinction
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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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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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
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Natural Resources and Reforms [PDF]
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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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
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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]
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 (EE) is a discipline that helps create a citizenry that is knowledgeable, motivated and committed to taking appropriate action concerning environmental issues.
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The resource curse revisited: governance and natural resources [PDF]
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]
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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