Fewer people reduces pressures on natural resources, such as arable land, fresh water, timber and fuel.
· Because of human demand for food, fresh water, timber, fibre and fuel, more land has been claimed for agriculture in the last 60 years than in the 18th and 19th centuries combined.
Second, biodiversity and the fulfilment of ecosystem services is highly threatened by the increasing attempts to satisfy the need for food, fresh water, timber, fibre and fuel [2].
These rapid changes have grown out of increasing demands for natural goods and services, such as food, fresh water, timber, fiber, and fuel.
The fresh lumber of the new stairs and supporting beams contrasts with the aged colonial timbers, some of which are a foot thick.
When his Teutonic beauties weren't hauling fresh-cut timber while clad only in black ankle boots, they were wearing saddles and sheer stockings.
In fact, countless communities around the world sustainably manage natural resources — fisheries, timber, fresh water, wildlife — without succumbing to the "tragedy of the commons".
As a major seaport, Bristol has a long history of trading commodities, originally wool cloth exports and imports of fish, wine, grain and dairy produce, later tobacco, tropical fruits and plantation goods; major imports now are motor vehicles, grain, timber, fresh produce and petroleum products.
"Timmy was a paddle-boat, sound as a gong, / Not a worm in his timbers, fresh paint all over.
