The money and resources spent on protecting government officials and politicians has become a source of increasing controversy in India, especially when security for ordinary people is lacking, as was underscored recently by a highly publicized gang rape case in December in New Delhi.
These debates are increasingly a clash of two opposing economies: one based on protecting natural resources for the so-called new economy of hunting, recreation and tourism, the other based on consuming them.
National environmental organizations have traditionally drawn their membership from the white and affluent, and have faced criticism for focusing more on protecting resources than protecting people.
After the Kobe earthquake in 1995, which killed about 6,000 people and injured 26,000, Japan also put enormous resources into new research on protecting structures, as well as retrofitting the country's older and more vulnerable structures.
Traditionally, fisheries management has focused on protecting resources from overexploitation or on the recovery of already overexploited stocks.
As interior secretary, Ms. Norton should be concentrating on protecting our natural resources, not giving them away to large oil and logging companies.
A systems-building approach is more effective, resource efficient and sustainable for achieving long-term positive impacts on protecting children.
In contrast, if a dissatisfied minority group cannot rely on such external resources to protect its interests by securing some meaningful form of self-determination within the state, then it may have a stronger case for seceding.
The countries will focus on protecting tiger habitats, addressing poaching, illegal trade and providing the financial resources for the plan.
We don't have the resources to protect more than that, so it's time to make some difficult decisions about who might be O.K. on their own.
