For countries and/or regions with resource-rich lands and low population (e.g., Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Turkmenistan), their development continues to depend on natural resources inclusive especially of timber, oil/gas, mining, fisheries, agriculture, and hydropower (Bergen et al. 2013).
This is one reason Colombia is a world leader in internal displacement, with over five million people living in desperate conditions after being forced to flee their resource-rich lands.
We will prepare to fight in the Eurasian heartland, the South China Sea, and the resource-rich lands of Africa -- because if we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here.
One of the harshest impacts of the continuous pressure on Ngäbe authorities to open their resource-rich lands has been to intensify the fissures that open among the communities as deals are cut without community support.
Most are fighting for autonomy and rights over their resource-rich land.
The ruin has left Congo, a resource-rich land about the size of Western Europe, a nation in name only.
Macdonald, as NSW resources minister, had sole discretion over how resource-rich land was distributed when he set up a 2008 coal tender process, benefiting the Obeid family to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
What do we need to end the violence of war, endemic abuses of women and the unconscionable poverty that gives children in this resource-rich land an average life expectancy of 46 years?
In that time, the generals have succeeded in turning a resource-rich land of 45m people, once considered to have one of the most promising economies in Asia, into an oppressed, poor nation widely shunned by the outside world.
Australia's resource-rich land, and demand for its metals and minerals, especially from China, is pumping up the fortunes of the nation's miners.
Economic initiatives which encourage cross border trade would strengthen capacity for long-term peace-building efforts and could finally enable civilians to benefit from the resource-rich land.
