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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... resources Materials naturally occurring in the environment and without intervention by humans. Ubiquitous natural resources, i.e. found everywhere, will include, for example, air or sunlight. Many natural resources are localized; for example, coal or fresh water. It can also be considered divided between biotic or abiotic resources. See also biodiversity ; natural capital...
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A Dictionary of Economics (5 ed.)
...natural resources Factors of production provided by nature. This includes land suitable for agriculture, mineral deposits, and water resources useful for power generation, transport, and irrigation. It also includes sea resources, such as fish and offshore mineral...
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A Dictionary of Human Geography
... socio-nature ). Uranium is not a natural resource unless a society knows about nuclear fission. A mineral deposit may not be a resource if it lies beneath land valued for its spiritual significance and integrity. Furthermore, the ‘naturalness’ of natural resources is disturbed by the creation of transuranic elements (generated only by nuclear reactors) and transgenic species (the result of genetic modification ). A conventional distinction is made between renewable and non-renewable natural resources. Renewable resources are those whose use does not deplete...
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The New Oxford Companion to Law
... resources The UK is endowed with a variety of natural resources. The most important being crude oil, gas, coal, water resources, and land suitable for agriculture and related activities. Almost all these resources are at the base or otherwise related to economic activity in the country. For example, energy resources (coal, oil, and gas, and their derivatives) contribute 10 per cent of the gross national income. Historically, coal has been the dominant natural resource in the UK especially in the last two centuries. It provided the energy that powered the...
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Neeraj Vedwan and Vaclav Smil
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
... Resources [ This entry includes two subentries, an overview and a discussion of natural resources in East Asia .] Overview “Natural resources” refers to naturally occurring substances that serve as inputs for industrial and consumptive uses. They are usually classified as renewable or nonrenewable, and they differ from commodities in their use of labor, which is devoted mainly to their extraction and refining. Renewable natural resources include water, solar radiation, and wind, whereas nonrenewable resources are primarily fossil fuels, such as coal, oil,...
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Eric Jones, Gary D. Libecap, and Gary D. Libecap
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
...on natural resources. Watkins, Mel . A Staple Theory of Economic Growth. In Approaches to Canadian Economic History , edited by W. T. Easterbrook and M. H. Watkins , 49–73. Toronto, 1969. Overview of the genesis of staple theory applied to the work of Canadian economic historians, who originated it. White, Colin. M. Russia and America: The Roots of Economic Divergence . London, 1987. Valuable comparative discussion of Risk, Resources and the Natural Environment. Williamson, Harold F. Prophecies of Scarcity or Exhaustion of Natural Resources in the...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
...of those resources continued after the agricultural villages were settled in and near the Nile Valley; but hunting for food had almost vanished by the Middle Predynastic (c. 3800 bce ), because of the depletion of wildlife in the vicinity of the villages and the emergence of an agricultural ethos centered on cultivation and herding. In later periods, wild animals, fowl, and fish were hunted by the elite for sport, and the ponds, marshes, and swamps bordering the Nile became a recreational resource. The principal natural resources of pharaonic times...
Natural Resources Wales Quick reference
A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... Resources Wales ( NRW ) A statutory body under the responsibility of the Welsh Government , with roles that include regulatory and advisory functions on a wide range of environmental and natural resources issues. It was formed by the amalgamation of separate countryside agencies including Countryside Council for Wales , Environment Agency Wales , and Forestry Commission Wales . See also Glastir ; Natural England ; Scottish Natural Heritage . http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk Website of Natural Resources Wales, detailing individual roles and...
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Eric T. FREYFOGLE
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...natural resources management . Washington, DC: Island Press. Knight, Richard L. , & White, Courtney . (2009). Conservation for a new generation: Redefining natural resources management . Washington, DC: Island Press. Larson, Anne M. , et al. (2010). Forests for people: Community rights and forest tenure reform . London: Earthscan. MacDonnell, Lawrence J. , & Bates, Sarah F. (Eds.). (2010). The evolution of natural resources law and policy . Chicago: ABA Publishing. MacDonnell, Lawrence J. , & Bates, Sarah F. (Eds.). (1993). Natural resources...
Natural Resources Defense Council Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... Resources Defense Council A US organization founded in 1970 to protect natural resources...
Natural Resources in Africa Reference library
Encyclopedia of Africa
... Resources in Africa Animals, minerals, water, and other resources in Africa that have economic potential. For information on Animals in modern trade and tourism: See Fisheries, African ; Ivory trade ; Wildlife Management in Africa . Distribution and management of natural resources : See Development in Africa: An Interpretation ; Forestry, Participation, and Representation in Africa: An Interpretation ; Gold Trade ; Minerals and Mining in Africa . Historic use of natural resources : See Development in Africa: An Interpretation ; Gold...
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Peter Altmann
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
...as part of creation, nature and natural resources, generally speaking, were viewed as intrinsically good, even if not necessarily controllable in the world from which the Old Testament arose. Consequently, the modern notion of “natural resources,” as materials and components derived from the environment and available for human use, takes on a different light in the biblical views. Both those natural resources such as sunlight and rain, whose disbursement are uncontrolled by humans (ubiquitous resources), and those resources that only occur in small sporadic...
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
... resources, permanent sovereignty over The Declaration on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources of 14 December 1962 (General Assembly Res.1803 (XVII) proclaimed ‘[t]he right of peoples and nations to permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources [to] be exercised in the interest of their national development and of the well-being of the people …’: para. 1. Violation of the rights to natural wealth and resources was declared to be ‘contrary to the spirit and principles of the Charter of the United Nations’: para. 7. The Declaration...
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The Oxford Companion to American Law
...and Natural Resources Law . Natural resources used in the production of energy constitute a fuel cycle, with environmental effects, from the exploration and extraction of resources through their consumption and use. It would seem, then, that a body of law should address the whole fuel cycle—however, such is not the case. Instead, natural resources and energy law, as well as environmental law , consist of a wide variety of state, local, and federal laws, encompassing cases, statutes, orders, regulations, and constitutional provisions. In addition, this...
Natural Resources, Climate Change, and Conflict Reference library
Vally Koubi and Gabriele Spilker
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory
... Resources, Climate Change, and Conflict Introduction What is the relationship between resource scarcity and abundance, on the one hand, and intrastate conflict, on the other? Under what conditions do natural resources cause conflict? Equally important, which types of resources can better predict the onset, intensity, and duration of intrastate conflict? 1 This article takes these and related questions as a motivation and discusses how scarcity of renewable resources (cropland, water, forest, fish stocks, etc.)—including climate change–induced scarcity...
Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster-monitoring Satellite-1A Quick reference
A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences (5 ed.)
...Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster-monitoring Satellite-1A ( VNREDSat-1A ) An Earth-observation mission by the Space Technology Institute and Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology that captures images with a resolution 2.5 m for studying the effects of climate change, predicting and taking measures to prevent natural disasters, and managing natural resources. The satellite was launched on 7 May 2013, from Kourou, French Guiana, into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 704...
