These include physical disturbances to the soil, vegetation and water-flows, pollution, and opening up previously inaccessible areas to hunting, colonisation and natural resource exploitation.
We are right to want to help people, wherever they are in the world, especially if we have played a part in their poverty (through unfair trade rules, natural resource exploitation, insistence on crippling debt repayments and so on).
Mandelson's current manifesto, a 2006 paper titled Global Europe, adapts a brawny stance towards natural resource exploitation, insisting that EU-based companies should not be discriminated against in gaining access to the energy infrastructure of foreign countries.
The video certainly makes the facts stark and at times very political: "We'll start with extraction, which is a fancy word for natural resource exploitation, which is a fancy word for trashing the planet," she says at one point.
The report also focused on the vulnerability of indigenous people, saying they suffer weak land rights and geographic isolation, making them particularly exposed to land grabbing for natural resource exploitation.
In the early 21st century, natural resource exploitation continued to influence the course of economic development in the Northwest Territories, with the energy and diamond-mining industries playing prominent roles.
Ecoregions with high species richness are large continental areas, so the efficient allocation of conservation resources will be better achieved by wiser political decisions related to agricultural expansion and natural resources exploitation, alongside the more traditional purchase and creation of protected areas [34].
If managed in isolation, coastal and marine protected areas (MPAs) are vulnerable to natural resource development and exploitation occurring outside these areas in particular, overfishing, alteration and destruction of habitats, and water pollution.
The group wrote the virus into their existing soaps, which deal with themes like natural-resource exploitation and government corruption.
Alexandra Pardal, an activist for Global Witness, an organization that investigates connections between conflict, corruption, and natural-resource exploitation, characterizes the Central African Republic as a "phantom state," with no control over much of its territory.
Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) rely heavily on coral reef fish stocks for food, export, and tourism because they provide a cheap, readily accessible natural resource for exploitation (Madin et al. 2008).
