All over the world, countries have been doing this. Of course, natural resource companies will push back, emphasize the sanctity of contracts, and threaten to leave.

(b) IRS satellites for natural resource management

(g) To protect our natural resource base in support of development.

In particular, there is a need to de link natural resource consumption from economic growth, so that growth in the economy does not lead to a concomitant growth in natural resource consumption.

Market access, road services and natural resource management must also be developed.

Natural resource crisis conditions prevail, particularly with respect to water, land and energy.

OFDI by Latin American firms is mainly market seeking and natural resource based.

Those are related to hunger, disease, natural resource management, environmental pollution and climate change.

In North Africa, natural resource degradation and depletion, especially water, is an increasingly serious problem.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs continued to conduct natural resource inventories, image mapping projects, and GPS training services to support its Indian Integrated Resource Information Program.

The title of both proposals is Human and natural resource poverty Connecting stakeholder and expert knowledge .

Decades of conflict have resulted in the deterioration of the country's human and natural resource endowments.

Many Chinese, Indian and Russian companies are investing abroad to access strategic assets and natural resources.

There is an unavoidable conflict of interest between (usually foreign) natural resource companies and host countries the former want to minimize what they pay, while the latter need to maximize it. Well designed, competitive, transparent auctions can generate much more revenue than sweetheart deals.

The stocks of the Western and Central Pacific are a significant natural resource for Pacific coastal States.

Yet, even on the assumption that Putin has no plans to nationalize key natural resource companies, he clearly desires strong state control over these commanding heights of the economy. That in itself will result in overall GDP growth falling below potential, owing to the inferior productivity and greater corruption in the major companies that the state controls or heavily influences.

Such cooperative efforts were the vehicles that could effectively overcome the natural resource related challenges in the region.

In order to improve natural resource management strategies, some developed countries advocate adopting an approach based on decentralization.

In order to address environmental monitoring problems, the Russian Federation uses hydrometeorological and natural resource exploration space facilities.

All efforts were conducted within the framework of developing support through economic resource mobilization among private companies, including private banks.

Natural resource productivity and proper valuation of natural assets are just as important to the developing countries if they are to have consistent, productivity led sustainable development over time.

It's amazing when you meet a head of state, and you say, What is your most precious natural resource?

19 Hlambela and Kozanayi on Decentralized Natural Resource Management in the Chiredzi District of Zimbabwe Voices from the Ground.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.

The proposal deals with informed consensus building about how human and natural resource poverty affects human and land vulnerability.

There is broad awareness that including women in programmes is necessary for the achievement of natural resource management objectives.

The Soil Conservation Service (redesignated the Natural Resources Conservation Service or NRCS in October 1994) adopted digital orthophotography as the common framework for collecting and managing natural resource geospatial databases.

South African companies are exploring for natural gas deposits in Bolivia and oil in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The United Nations must protect the territorial integrity and natural resources of Western Sahara, a territory that multinational companies and major Powers coveted because of its natural riches, particularly oil.

b) prevent damage that could affect human health or natural resource in another State by the discharge of pollutants, and

Mayer J (1997). Is having a rich natural resource endowment detrimental to export diversification? UNCTAD Discussion Paper, No.124, March.

These decentralization policies have led to a transfer of competence to local natural resource management bodies based on various models.

Monitor E, a natural resource satellite carrying medium and high resolution equipment is due to be launched in June 2005.

Additionally conflicts might arise over the issue of multinational companies' direct exploitation of natural resources on traditional lands, as in the case of foreign mining companies in the Philippines and other countries.

Mercenaries had also been recruited by the military and private companies to ensure control over natural resources throughout Latin America.

In Indonesia, efforts are focused on rehabilitating degraded natural forests and involve not only government agencies but also private companies.

Any exploitation of the Territory's natural resources by Moroccan or foreign companies must not only be condemned but also prevented.

Some delegations reiterated the view that the geostationary orbit was a limited natural resource, which ran the risk of becoming saturated.

Some delegations reiterated the view that the geostationary orbit was a scarce natural resource, which ran the risk of becoming saturated.

Mr. Chia (Singapore) said that, since people were Singapore's only natural resource, the country had invested heavily in education and training.

The natural resource surveying satellites, Resurs O1 No. 3 and Resurs O1 No. 4, carried medium resolution equipment (29 45 metres).

Special attention is being given to sustainable development as a way for the region to capitalize on its unique natural resource endowment.

However, some wealthier developing countries, notably Chile, did achieve a faster pace of investment and growth based on their natural resource endowments.

Our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

A significant proportion of its OFDI value is in resource extraction activities (oil, natural gas and minerals) dominated by state owned enterprises.