The record-breaking 2023 wildfire season in Canada ( ~ 15 Mha burned) was enabled by early snowmelt, drought, and extreme weather. It had profound impacts that included evacuation of >200 communities, millions exposed to hazardous smoke, and a strain on fire-fighting resources. ...
Humanity’s growing consumption of natural resources has raised an alarm for the whole world, because the consequences will be devastating for the future of human beings. To resolve this issue, both short-term actions and long-term planning will be required. Obviously, resource depletion makes the...
namely “natural” disasters, which have immediate and tangible consequences in terms of deaths, injuries, and damage to the natural habitat. A disaster is the intersection of two opposing forces: the processes generating vulnerability on one side (socio-economic conditions)...
Natural Resources GavinBridge,RyanWyeth, inInternational Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Second Edition), 2020 Abstract The termNatural Resourcesrefers to the functional utility that societies derive from the environment and is widely used in humangeography. “Natural” resources are also a deeply proble...
The natural resources such as oil, forests and freshwater are being consumed at an alarming rate. What problems does this cause? How can we solve these problems? 这道题算是一道经典report类老题了。同学们在写作之前需要注意以下几点: 1.这道题并未问到原因,所以千万不要写为什么资源正在耗尽!
environmental and climate monitoring; assessing the impacts of climate change; supporting ecological research; carbon management; water resources management; city planning; hazard mitigation; damage and loss assessment; emergency response.Satellite imagery, used in tandem with existing modeling capabilities, ...
Growing concerns over limited fossil resources and associated environmental problems are motivating the development of sustainable processes for the production of chemicals, fuels and materials from renewable resources. Metabolic engineering is a key enabling technology for transforming microorganisms into efficie...
The appreciation for natural resources as a driver of economic development has undergone a dramatic change in the past decades. Although an abundance of resources was generally perceived as advantageous until the 1980s, an influential literature emerged in the 1990s that reached seemingly opposite concl...
fisheries have been extinguished is that declining fish populations trigger conditions for institutional change. In particular, declining resources and corresponding dissipation of economic returns provides the motive for absorbing the transaction costs associated with a transition to a more activist regulatory...
So, it is probably impossible to make an universal statement regarding the natural resources and the associated economic growth impacts being positive, negative, or neutral. Many factors are influence the economic growth of a country; among others, natural resources rent, human capital, financial ...