During the first 100 years of European settlement, the management of Sydney's water resources was characterised by minimal planning and arguably contempt for any regulatory regime, culminating in a pandemic of water borne diseases and pollution.
Human resources were characterised by facility type, with particular emphasis on availability of certified surgeons, obstetrician/gynaecologists, anaesthesiologists, general physicians or other trained nurses, health extension officers, midwives or paramedics performing surgery or anaesthesia.
These resources are characterised by an increasing feminisation and specialisation (with the exception of Denmark), a slow increase of nurses as a percentage of the health personnel (with the exception of Finland), and a decreasing concentration of the health personnel in hospitals (with the exception of Portugal).
Policy formulation is, however, at a very early stage in many Member States, with often vague notions of what resource efficiency means, characterised by fragmented instruments and overlapping competencies.
Graded resource allocation is characterised by a distinct phase of simultaneous production of workers and sexuals.
Primary health care in Ireland is relatively under resourced and is characterised by poor infrastructure and limited interdisciplinary teamwork [ 18].
Like may periods of the past, the future will be characterised by resource scarcities, with limited pollution sink capacities constituting a new constraint.
Second, resource curse countries are characterised by high corruption levels.
Donors often are motivated by similar goals, especially in an environment characterised by resource constraints.
By essence CSR entails self-regulated norms, and resource curse environments are characterised by poor state governance or deficits in the rule of law.
