The control of resources by governments and the vested interest parties is what results in the instability that we observe in these developing nations. The natural resources that present the chief source of conflicts and retrogressive development pace are quite diverse (Haber, Stephen & Victor 17)
This is what later came to be known as 'the Dutch disease'. This is because, after the gas discovery, though there were no conflicts witnessed, the export process boomed so fast (Petrovsky 35)
The most significant and prevalent reason why the country with plenty of natural resource will not prosper is conflicts. Conflicts among the ethnic groups, religious divisions, and the government and rebel groups are mostly driven and funded by the natural resource (Vatansever 21)
Due to the abundant supply of ore and hardwoods for furnaces, iron smelting became important in the eighteenth century and by the nineteenth century, Pennsylvania became the nation's leading steel producer, and anthracite coal made the state a dominant force in American railroading, however, heavy industry has declined in recent years, however, the state still manufactures metal products, transportation equipment, chemicals, and a variety of plastic, rubber, stone, clay, and glass products (Pennsylvania I pp). Pennsylvania became a leader in the American iron industry during the days of the American Revolution, and when the steam age came along, the iron industry was transformed due to the demand for rolled iron for boilers (Gordon pp)
.children who drop out of school to earn or because their parents cannot afford fees, books or breakfast, are unlikely to reenroll once food prices decline" (Gentleman 2009)
As banking became more centralized, loans to small businesses, including farms, became harder to come by, which in combination with falling prices and expensive chemical and seed packages, left many farmers to get big or get out. Commodities traders increasingly invested in other financial services, large traders crossed over into futures markets, and some banks began to trade in financial instruments, including commodities, in order to protect their loans" (Shattuck 2009)
"Some ministers from poor countries, for example, are growing impatient with the way the West is addressing global warming by subsidizing and encouraging conversion of corn, sugar cane and other food products into substitutes for oil. The shift is helping to drive up prices, they say" (Weisman 2008)
Research states that "a recent statistical compilation of profiles of groundwater use by province, it is the industrial sectors -- primarily manufacturing, mining, thermal power generation and aquaculture -- that are the biggest consumers. Next come the municipal and agricultural sectors," (Cote 2006)
James Hansen of NASA said the research shows that "for every square meter of surface area, the planet is absorbing almost one watt more of the sun's energy than it is radiating back to space as heat -- a historically large imbalance" (Hanley pp). According to a Stanford University study release May 16, 2005, the first signs of spring are appearing earlier each year: robins are arriving several days earlier, woodpeckers are laying their eggs a week earlier, and Washington's cherry trees bloom a month earlier than they did fifty years ago (Borenstein pp)
Moreover, greater amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus are mobilized by humans in the form of crop fertilizer than by natural processes, and humans harvest an amount of ocean fish that reflects fully one third of phytoplankton productivity in temperate continental shelves (Myers pp). A NASA study released in April 2005, has revealed the heat exchange between the Earth and space is seriously out of balance, leading researchers to call it the "smoking gun" discovery that validates forecasts of global warming (Hanley pp)
Due to current food shortages, more than 3 billion people are malnourished worldwide, the largest number and proportion ever, and according to the World Health Organization, an estimated 40,000 children die each day due to malnutrition and other diseases (Pimentel pp). Humans are responsible for fifty-five percent of all available water run-off (Myers pp)
Past geological records indicate that never before has the Earth experience the current "suite" of simultaneous changes and many feel that humans are sailing into "planetary terra incognita" (Wallstrom pp). According to a 1999 article from Cornell University, "because population growth can not continue indefinitely, society can either voluntarily control its numbers or let natural forces such as disease, malnutrition, and other disasters limit human numbers" (Pimentel pp)
They believe that the impact of man upon the environment and the planet's natural resources threatens the earth and humankind as greatly as any nuclear war. Within recent decades, many environmental indicators have moved outside the range in which they have varied for the past half-million years (Wallstrom pp)
. They grew out of history, yet they threaten to end history" (Schell 3)
The state is blessed with natural resources which have been fundamental in explaining the meteoric rise of the state into a regional economy. California has a vast wealth of natural resources with minerals ranging from gold, silver and oil (Walker, 2001, p
The federal government is in the business of both preserving the land and making sure that it benefits all of the people in the nation. The forestry service wants to maintain the forests in their best possible state by "tree planting, herbaceous weed control, fertilization, precommercial thinning, final harvests, harvests for habitat improvement, preservation, road construction, road obliteration, and prescribed fire" (Bettinger, Boston, Sirey & Grebner 2)
For the foresters this is a simple calculation. They realize that "Any project with a positive net present value is worth doing" (Buongiorno & Gilless 378)
Big Bear Lake is the second largest lake of Southern California and one of the most dominant ecosystems. Big Bear Lake's ecosystem produces two types of energy resources which can be categorize as renewable and non-renewable energy resource (Big Bear Lake Official Website)
The deal is to be completed with stock and the acquisition of Foundation's debt and will result in the creation of the nation's third-largest coal producer. The move comes amid speculation of another round of consolidation in the coal industry, due to a number of factors in the external environment (Huber, 2009)
The world's population is expected to continue rapid growth but peak around 2075 at a level around 9.2 billion (Alexandratos, 2005)