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

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

The strategy will focus on strengthening the technical capacity of the countries of the region to implement and manage sustainable public policies that reconcile growth, the protection of the natural resource endowment and social equity with the sustainable use of natural resources.

Small island developing countries, including Tonga, face many unique challenges because of our small populations, remoteness and dispersed locations, narrow resource endowment and vulnerability to external shocks, including from international market fluctuations and natural disasters.

(b) IRS satellites for natural resource management

Myanmar possesses considerable development potential, given its fertile agricultural land, a rich endowment of other natural resources and potential as a locus of regional trade.

Guangdong's basic endowment insurance system for urban and rural residents is comprised of a primary endowment insurance fund and a personal account endowment insurance fund. The primary endowment insurance fund was jointly paid by governments at all levels.

(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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

And we are now in the process of raising the full endowment.

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).

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.

Nigeria has proposed creating stabilization funds, and, in the future, it will sell its natural resources in transparent, competitive bidding processes. Most importantly, the Nigerians are taking measures to ensure that the fruits of this endowment are invested, so that as the country's natural resources are depleted, its real wealth fixed and human capital is increased.

All reports advocate the adoption of desertification monitoring and assessment measures as a way of improving the effectiveness of natural resource management strategies.

The committees were designed to institutionalize the exchange of information and coordination among key agencies responsible for natural resource management and climate change.

These need to be implemented so that markets can guide farmers' choices concerning farm management and energy, agricultural input and natural resource use.

PRINCETON Long viewed as an economic basket case, Sub Saharan Africa is experiencing its best growth performance since the immediate post independence years. Natural resource windfalls have helped, but the good news extends beyond resource rich countries.

Climatic, geographic, demographic and land use profiles, natural resources endowment, energy mix and economic structures are among the most important aspects of national circumstance affecting the profile of a country's GHG emissions, its vulnerabilities to climate change and other challenges it is facing.