Lately Latin America has benefited from a commodity boom, particularly in mining, oil and gas.
Nearly all the rest is multiuse land, for logging, grazing, hard-rock mining, oil and gas development.
The mandated protections could seriously inhibit coal mining, oil and gas exploration and other businesses vital to Western economies.
Barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose poverty is an enduring shock.
Mountain States and other land-use groups have also been financed by mining, oil and timber interests.
Currently, the long arm of the government is everywhere, controlling all the important industries, including mining, oil and telecoms.
Papua New Guinea has had a small stock exchange since the late 1990s, but many of the companies traded chiefly mining, oil, and financial concerns are foreign-based.
In the United States the principle of multiple use governs management of these forests, with lumbering, mining, oil and gas drilling, and grazing permitted under federal regulation.
Clarksburg's economy formerly based on coal mining, oil and natural-gas production, and agriculture has shifted more toward light manufactures and services.
For example, Weir Group, which makes pumps for the mining, oil and gas and industrial sectors, has delivered five years of unbroken growth.
My biggest concern is that the mining, oil and gas industries still have a very big say in moulding the direction of the Kimberley coast.
