If promoting what is natural underpins the modern management of vaginal birth, the need for speed and resuscitation remain the principles governing techniques for caesarean birth today.
"Urban gentrification," says Sergio Porta, professor of urban design at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, and his colleagues in London and Italy in a new paper, "is a natural force underpinning the evolution of cities".
Enhanced seasonal groundwater recharge enabled by WHSs regenerated aquatic, farmed and natural ecosystems, underpinning a positive cycle of interdependent social and economic regeneration.
Natural resource underpins all development Natural resources lie at the heart of all human development stories -- from the first settlers who began tilling the soil to later civilizations who have relied on resource extraction: whether wood, minerals, coal or oil.
Gifted with exceptional natural athleticism underpinned by an excellent classical technique, he possessed an exotic beauty and a charismatic stage presence.
Natural talent underpinned his Caspian deals with Chevron, Mobil and the rest, helped him build pipelines to the west and enabled him to set out his stall as one of the world's great energy suppliers.
Of these probably the two most important were, first, his commitment to a law of nature, a natural moral law that underpins the rightness or wrongness of all human conduct, and, second, his subscription to the empiricist principle that all knowledge, including moral knowledge, is derived from experience and therefore not innate.
Only then was it possible to understand the genetic mechanisms that underpin natural selection.
This push for more scientific data and expertise to underpin natural resource management is also becoming more common among policymakers and environmental managers in the UK.
What should be clear by now is that Seven Elements is not a chemistry book, but an engaging history of how the use of natural resources has underpinned dramatic industrial development.
