If some welcome the prospect of economic development, others fear the destruction of their rural lives.

BBC: Paris plans third airport

One popular project under the so-called Clean Development Mechanism program is the destruction of hydrofluorocarbon gases.

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Bee populations in the UK have fallen with the destruction of their homes due to industry and development.

BBC: Gloucester bee conservation project wins ?50,000 grant

Under the 1989 U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Destruction Agreement, the Kremlin is supposed to have terminated development and production of new chemical arms and to have disclosed all their chemical holdings.

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Left abandoned for years, a Traverse City redevelopment committee recommended its destruction in 1998, until a group of local citizens and a development group stepped in with renovation plans.

BBC: Reinventing a Michigan mental hospital

Even if it is not, the destruction of pancreatic cells that comes with diabetes may be unrelated to the development of insulin resistance.

ECONOMIST: Metabolic syndrome

We both agree that our two countries share extensive common interests in important matters bearing on the survival and development of mankind, such as peace and development, economic cooperation and trade, the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and environment protection.

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Thus although cultural heritage and archaeology are drivers for Creative Economies that contribute to sustainable development, the imbalanced promotion of heritage can serve to alienate communities, generate conflict and lead to the destruction of heritage.

UNESCO: Professor Robin Coningham