Looking ahead, the recommendations aim to create an important, lasting resource through which UNICEF supports countries to develop and fully use an evidence base to improve the situation of children and women.
Examples of such projects are the WTCCC [ 7], Genetic Association Information Network [ 17] and Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) [ 18], which were data-generating projects as well as providing lasting community resources.
Water is one of the last resources the city is worried about.
Fielding's favourite homage to glam rock is the alien travelling the Milky Way in a glitterball, using the last resources from each planet to party.
The new scheme, the Science Research Investment Fund, will take over from the Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF), the £750 million funding stream that allocates its last resources in 2000-01.
The company expects its revenue to grow by over 40% in China's second and third tier cities. "Parents are surrendering their last resources to wager them on a child's future by sending them abroad," said Lao Kaisheng, an education policy researcher at Capital Normal University in Beijing.
"People typically don't apply for cash assistance until they're down to their last resources," Lower-Basch said.
The fear is that migrants down to their last resources will head to urban tent camps where food and water is available.
Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, a TomDispatch regular, and the author of The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources just published by Metropolitan Books.
In addition to six BOREAS special issues and over 500 journal papers, a principal legacy of BOREAS is its well-documented and publicly available database, which provides a lasting scientific resource and opportunity to further advance our understanding of this critical northern biome.
