One would expect that in purchasing or leasing land for resource extraction estimating the value of that land would introduce some risk.
The U.S. is instrumental in that effort, as it has been in bolstering resistance by states in the South China Sea to intimidation by Beijing over land and resource claims.
Salazar, Obama's choice for secretary of the interior, has focused on public land and energy resource issues as a first-term senator from Colorado.
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 colonial government kept control of a critical resource: land.
While this is a common problem among traders, I see a similar trait playing out across our great land in the Human Resource departments and Investment Committees that are indirectly responsible for the fiduciary responsibilities of a vast majority of retirement plans and pensions.
Furthermore, from the point of view of the global economy, labour is a resource, like land or oil.
In that time, the generals have succeeded in turning a resource-rich land of 45m people, once considered to have one of the most promising economies in Asia, into an oppressed, poor nation widely shunned by the outside world.
These policies call for the land to be used as a resource for tourism.
There are hundreds of cases pending involving natural resource use on tribal land, with billions of dollars at stake.
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The Obama administration is making progress along a wide front in fulfilling the president's pledge to our First Americans, investing hundreds of millions of recovery dollars in new schools and roads, strengthening tribal law enforcement, improving Indian education and speeding land into trust to expand tribal resource bases.
Land has become an even more vital resource for local governments, which either hand it over for little or nothing to attract industry or sell it at high prices to property developers.
The Amazon, Brazil is learning, is both a resource and weak spot, vulnerable to guerrillas, drug traffickers and land-grabbers.
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