Climate change acts as a "multiplier of other resource crises," according to Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, causing uncertainty about resources, leading to "the ecological panic that I'm afraid will lead to mass killings in the decades to come," Mr. Snyder told the symposium.
Natural disasters like blizzards, earthquakes, and hurricanes drive reform and the allocation of resources, leading to improvements in public safety.
Their presence has created an unprecedented strain on national resources, leading to the Lebanese government tightening restrictions last week on Syrians entering the country.
That view has changed, he and others say, because developing nations are consuming more of the world's resources, leading to higher costs for all in a sluggish economy.
They'll put more pressure on the world's already dwindling resources, leading to war, famine and all the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Second, Spanish settlements focused on the extraction of resources, leading to the establishment of mining centres in Huancavelica and at Potosí, in modern Bolivia.
Environmental disasters have become the new vampires in fiction trends, a typical storyline dealing with conflict over basic resources leading to an imbalance of power between totalitarian rulers and their hapless serfs.
In the past year, sales have been hit by the economic turmoil in the emerging markets of Russia, Latin America and Asia where Coca-Cola has been committing vast resources, leading to a series of profits warnings.
Independents are viewed as having less marketing power and fewer financial resources, leading to the assumption that they give artists more control and greater ownership – but that isn't always the case.
High levels of community autonomy are mainly found in resource-rich urban areas; this may give privileged access to resources, leading to a perpetuation of advantage or disadvantage based on locality.
Five days after the cyclone struck visas for many aid workers have yet to be processed and the Burmese government is trying to take control of airlifted resources, leading to fears it could be mismanaged.
