Natural Resources throughout the World

In Colinesia, the people depend on many natural resources that are taken out of the environment. These resources include coal and iron, which are mined out of the mountains to the west. Oil, lumber, are harvested all across the island. Most of the forests have been cut down in the more populated areas while in the less populated areas, the forests thrive. The mountains have also had roads put in to allow all the heavy mining machinery to get through. The Colinesian people have houses that are much like our own in the United States. They are built to withstand pretty much everything. But unlike the United States, the Colinesians have a built-in immunity for the fresh water. Without it, everybody who lives there would be sick.

that no one must do wrong. “…that to commit injustice is in every case bad and dishonorable for the person who does

This paper uses the terms natural resource(s), resource(s), and reserve(s) in many different contexts. Please use care when interpreting their usage and context.

While natural resources have played an important role in creating wealth and powering development, recent research shows an inverse correlation between the abundance of natural resources and growth and development. This has been true of many of the economies in Latin America, Africa and the Arab world, regions characterized by high levels of natural resources endowments, be they minerals, oil or timber. The inverse correlation between endowment and wealth creation—dubbed as the natural resource curse hypothesis—has been the subject of intense study and has yielded valuable insights into political economy issues.

It’s not wrong to be wrong, it is wrong to stay wrong. This may be a quote from a more noteworthy person, but I first heard it used in 1988 when I was fresh on the Fire Department. A Battalion Chief by the name of Butch Johnson shared that pearl of wisdom with me which and it has served me well. It gave me the confidence to not be as afraid of going outside my comfort zone and taking risks. – even

As an illustration, Brazil has had the chance to jump on the boat in comparison to China, and India as a result of development as mentioned by Collier . As for the notion of the resource curse, Brazil is not effected much by it now as compared to previous years before. For example, in the mid-17th century when Brazil was the leading distributor

Togo’s environment consists of a fair amount of diversity with gently sloping savanna hills in the north, expansive lagoons and marshes stretching from the coastal plain in the south, and hills and plateaus in the central region of the country. The nation’s natural resources are made up predominately of phosphates, limestone, marble, and arable land. As of 2011 their total renewable water resources are 14.7 cu km, with total withdrawals in 2005 only at 0.17 cu km per year, suggesting they have enough water resources to meet the growing needs of their people for the time being. The percentage of endogenous freshwater supply withdrawn for use by Togo as listed by The World Resources Institute is about 1% annually. The more difficult issue for Togo will be protecting the water quality and finding the financing and resources to expand infrastructure to provide a much larger % of the population with access to improved water and sanitation. Natural hazards for Togo are hot temperatures, intermittent droughts, and dry Harmattan winds causing reductions in visibility. The country’s most troubling environmental issues include deforestation from slash-and-burn agriculture combined with the harvesting of wood for fuel. Water pollution causing health hazards with drinking water sources, and harming the fishing industry. Additionally, increasing urbanization and development is causing rises air pollution, which has become more threatening to their urban metropolitan areas. The

Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of four provinces and four federal territories. It has many ethnicities and many languages that people speak in this country. A regional and middle power, Pakistan has the seventh largest standing armed force in the world and is a nuclear power as well as a declared nuclear-weapons state. They are the only nation in the Muslim world and the second Country in South Asia to have that status. It has a semi-industrialized economy with a well-integrated agriculture sector; its economy is the 26th largest in the world in terms of purchasing power and is one of the largest growing economies in the world. The goal of this paper is to give a better understanding of Pakistan’s demographic

the urban sectors. These changes have brought about dramatic alterations in land-use patterns and rapid disappearance of valuable natural ecosystems. The need for more water, more food, more energy, more consumer goods, is not only the result of a greater population, but also the result of over-utilization of resources by people from the more affluent societies, and the affluent sections of our own. Industrial development is aimed at meeting growing demands for all consumer items. However, these consumer goods also generate waste in ever larger quantities. The growth of industrial complexes has led to a shift of people from their traditional, sustainable, rural way of life to urban centers that developed around industry. During the last few decades, several small urban centers have become large cities, some have even become giant mega-cities. This has increased the disparity between what the surrounding land can produce and what the large number of increasingly consumer-oriented people in these areas of high population density consume. Urban centers cannot exist without resources such as water from rivers and lakes, food from agricultural areas, domestic animals from pasture lands and timber, fuel wood,

In addition to the capacities of setting up development plans, the successful development in resource-based economy depends on their ability to save all or part of the revenues from the extractive industries (Lewin, 2011). Since the non-renewable resources are destined to be depleted in the future, the mineral-wealth is limited, and it means the state should save the revenues as much as possible to prepare for the future depletion (Lange and Wright, 2002). Moreover, the natural resources tend to have volatile prices, so the countries need to stabilize the income, for

The modern economists are of the view that natural resources i...e forest minerals, climate, water power etc. play in important role in the economic development of an country. A country which has abundant natural resources is in position to development more rapidly than a country which is deficient in such resources. They here how ere emphasize that the presence of abundant resources is not a sufficient condition of economic growth. Physical factures they say are passive factors of economic growth. They are to be combined with human resources of a country who are active facture of economic development.

Pakistan is categorized among the 43 countries who are most exposed to poverty. (S. Rana 2011)

The author is a former senior Pakistani diplomat and former UN Assistant Secretary General and currently Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad

Pakistan has grown much more than other low-income countries, but has failed to achieve social progress commensurate with its economic growth. The educated and well-off urban population

Pakistan is an Islamic state located in South Asia that covers an area of 796,095 square kilometers. It shares border with India, Afghanistan, Iran and China and a marine border with Oman. It came into existence as an independent nation in 1947 and since then, it has been encompassed by incalculable issues including underdeveloped infrastructure, infertile and old production lines, international interference, instable government and corruption underscoring every deliberation towards progress (Africaw 2014). Moreover, regardless of being rich in natural resources, it struggles to be