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Integrated assessment and mapping of provisioning services for sustainable management of natural resources, the case of Lake Hawassa Basin, Ethiopia. [PDF]
HeliyonReta BA, Soromessa T.
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Dataset of geophysical electrical resistivity and subsurface profiling for natural resources exploration in a hard rock terrain of Tamil Nadu, India. [PDF]
Data BriefKamaraj P, Karuppannan S.
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Natural Resources: A Source of Conflict?
International Journal, 2006Patterns of armed conflict changed significantly in the course of the zoth century. The period ending in 1945 saw a series of blood-soaked interstate rivalries that left deep wounds, culminating in the horrific events at Auschwitz and Hiroshima. The following two decades were marked by wars of national liberation in colonies such as Indonesia, Algeria,
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The Curse of Natural Resources
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2009A large literature has developed that documents a negative association between the presence of natural resources and economic development. In this paper we explore the empirics and theories of the so-called resource curse and try to assess its robustness.
Wick, A.K., Bulte, E.H.
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From Natural Resources to Natural Assets [PDF]
NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2001 This article examines the scope for strategies to build natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. Natural assets include sources of raw materials such as forests and fisheries, and the airsheds, lands, and water bodies that provide “environmental sinks” for the disposal of wastes.
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2002
Abstract This chapter discusses the large direct investments made by trading companies in the ownership of natural resources, especially commodities such as tea, sugar, rubber, and tropical timber. Asset specificity, uncertainty, and opportunism provided incentives for this backward integration, and the companies were able to use their ...
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Abstract This chapter discusses the large direct investments made by trading companies in the ownership of natural resources, especially commodities such as tea, sugar, rubber, and tropical timber. Asset specificity, uncertainty, and opportunism provided incentives for this backward integration, and the companies were able to use their ...
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Allocation of Natural Resources
Science, 1973(31 Aug., p. 819) argue that, because current pricing practices do not internalize environmental costs, some mechanism other than the market is needed to protect environmental values. They propose a system of environmental credits-natural resource units (NRU's)-to be allocated to individuals and industrial organizations.
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2001
Policies on the protection of nature are a core element in the national environmental regimes of EU member states, most of which have developed programmes aimed at protecting wildlife and at managing natural habitats such as highlands, moors, grasslands, wetlands, rivers, lakes and coastal areas for their ecological value and for recreation.
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Policies on the protection of nature are a core element in the national environmental regimes of EU member states, most of which have developed programmes aimed at protecting wildlife and at managing natural habitats such as highlands, moors, grasslands, wetlands, rivers, lakes and coastal areas for their ecological value and for recreation.
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Exploration for Natural Resources
Operations Research, 1966Exploration for natural resources has followed traditional trial-and-error procedures from the original prospector and burro to the latest airborne detection devices and each kind of resource tends to be associated with an individual type of search program.
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Natural resources and institutions: the “natural resources curse” revisited [PDF]
, 2008 The present paper deals with the role of political authorities and institutions in explaining growth failures. We aim to search answers for three related questions: is there a natural resources curse? Are all types of natural resources exposed to a curse? Can good institutions, measured by a single indicator, avoid this “curse”?
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