They developed a software system called InVEST that maps out value of natural land or seascape.
Depleting natural resources, land degradation, natural disasters and the impact of continued climate change also often hit the headlines.
The billionaires too often flourish thanks to political connections and access to natural resources, land and public goods such as telecoms spectrum.
Environment Minister Amedi Camara said that nearly all of the plastic package waste is not "collected and is found in the natural environment - land and sea - where they are sometimes ingested by marine species and livestock, causing their death".
The meeting was an opportunity also to emphasize the critical role of the natural and cultural heritage for social and economic development in Tanzania, a land of natural wonders and great cultural diversity.
For nearly 20 years, she's worked to protect the land and natural resources of the mountain west.
With this turn of events humans, not land or natural resources, were now the limiting factor in growth.
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Between 1982 and 1997, the US converted more than 24m acres (10m ha) of natural habitat into developed land.
The official view relies to a large extent on the theory, put forward by Thomas Malthus in 1798, that China has insufficient land and natural resources to support its population.
This has been avoided, the report says, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo where sugar cane farmers are obliged to leave a percentage of their land as natural reserves.
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The Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) announced that it has granted a permit to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project to build and operate the next-generation observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea.
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Plattsburgh Press-Republican and Glens Falls Chronicle outdoors columnist Dan Ladd said he understands the need for DEC to control information on contentious topics such as hydrofracturing for natural gas and state land deals, but not those related to hunting and fishing.
Traversing their land is a natural gas pipeline, 36 inches in diameter and 6 feet underground.
And they also suffer from outsiders coveting the natural resources found on their land.
There are hundreds of cases pending involving natural resource use on tribal land, with billions of dollars at stake.
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Those interested in nature might purchase land and rebuild natural areas.
The solar-powered Amazon Yarapa River Lodge has designated some land as a natural preserve and partnered with Cornell University to build a field laboratory.
The publication includes nine papers explore the various aspects of local and traditional knowledge and its relation to nature conservation, land management and natural resource management, and industry.
The project is a partnership of the Environment Agency, Huntingdonshire District Council, Middle Level Commissioners, which is a group responsible for land drainage, Natural England and the Wildlife Trust.
The Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust aims to protect land, buildings and natural resources in the area.
Some of the world's poorest people are losing the land, water and natural resources that have supported their livelihoods for generations.
Mr Wheelhouse said government agency Scottish Natural Heritage had been mapping wild land and this data would help a review of planning policy.
But the marshy, urban land is not their natural habitat, and it exposes them to frequent health problems, especially eye and feet infections, cuts and parasites.
The objective is to use space technologies to monitor heritage sites and allow local authorities to identify potential threats, such as land use changes or natural disasters, giving them time to implement mitigation strategies.
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Four times the area of France, and source of a fifth of the world's nickel and two-fifths of its platinum, Russia's entire Krasnoyarsk krai, or region, has only about as many inhabitants as Boston and despite their land's vast natural wealth, they are as poor as church mice.
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But those companies are struggling to set up power plants quickly amid shortages of coal and natural gas and long delays in acquiring land.
More broadly, India's current sharp growth recession has shown that reforms in land, labor and other natural resources are necessary to improve the economy's long-term potential.
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) said landowners and land managers deserved thanks for their part in helping the raptors establish territories.
Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land.
The republics' legislative regulation of ownership of land...and other natural resources must not impede the implementation of the Union's powers.
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