Prudhoe Bay's industrialised landscape, with its factory-like structures, its hundreds of miles of pipelines, its 1,114 oil wells, its roads, and its residues, is a reminder of what petroleum extraction on land really means.
Sustainability indicators such as acceptable head can be examined based on climate and management decisions affecting water extraction and land use.
Employing the major pressures, of GHG emissions, mineral resource extraction and land use, the different cases of relative/absolute and no decoupling are determined.
The data were processed through four main steps: (1) data pre-processing, (2) impervious surface (IS) extraction, (3) land surface temperature (LST) retrieval, and (4) accuracy assessment.
World demand for natural resources is increasingly driving local resource extraction and land use [1].
Although the net land-cover changes from this study are distributed unevenly across the level 4 ecoregions (Fig. 5), as would be expected with differential patterns of population, natural resource extraction, and land protection, there are some commonalities.
Emergency workers and those who work in remote areas in occupations such as resource extraction, wilderness lands management, and professional rescue operations often receive basic survival training.
As a result of four decades of extraction-based land practices in the region, the SJLSBC was established to protect Northern Zone ecosystems, promote sustainable practices while still allowing land to be privately owned, and to provide a continuous stretch of forest between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Land-grant universities and agricultural schools, dependent on financing from agribusiness, focus on maximum extraction from the land — take more, sell more, waste more.
Ian Willms has photographed the effects of oil extraction on First Nations land in Fort McKay and Fort Chipewyan, in northern Alberta, Canada.
