Amid warnings the freezing conditions could continue for another week, Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney urged councils to be innovative with limited resources when dealing with the effects.
Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends.
This is partly a function of the draining effects on personnel and resources of two protracted conflicts.
Mr. Panitch says he sometimes uses Fox's vast array of film production resources like relationships with special-effects companies to dress up foreign films.
We analyze the effects of this freeing up of resources in a standard growth accounting framework.
Each year, the effects of population growth on natural resources and the environment are being recognized.
Without going into the specific reasons for immigration or their merits (or demerits), it is enough to note that the political leadership in the United States must consider the effects of population growth on natural resources and the environment as it considers immigration reform.
To environmentalists on the left, among the worst injustices we can perpetuate is to ignore the effects of our consumption today on the resources available to future generations.
Losing governors means parties lose coat-tail effects and the opportunity to exploit state resources for congressional campaigns, which in turn makes it harder to gain financing and airtime.
The Association of Chief Police Officers says in its guidance that such income generation can "help forces counter the effects of declining budgets and increasing pressure on resources".
One of the biggest differences between what happened at Chernobyl and the crisis at Fukushima is the amount of resources the two countries possess to minimize long-term effects.
Standard economic models predict that in the absence of clearly defined property rights, such common resources will be overexploited, with individuals acting without regard for the effects of their actions on the overall pool.
Meanwhile the summit of UK tourism ministers in Glasgow chaired by Scottish tourism minister Alasdair Morrison is expected to discuss calls for Chancellor Gordon Brown to plough extra resources into hotel and catering firms under pressure from the knock-on effects of foot-and-mouth.
While the transition facing each of these countries is unique and while the resources of West Germany provide an opportunity for rapid change not available elsewhere, there will nonetheless likely be salutary effects and lessons to be learned throughout the region from the East German experience.
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