In many subregions, the people's relationship with natural resources remains strong, and traditional regulatory mechanisms are still in place that facilitate sensible resource use and conservation.
Previous studies have shown that emergency and intensive care physicians are reluctant to use ICU resources in older patients, and it has been discussed whether this represent age discrimination or sensible resource allocation [ 33, 34].
But with reports that funding for children's social services is being cut in real terms by 4% in 2014-15, and with health, schools and probation services being churned up and disrupted, exciting innovation needs to be measured against the benefits of stability, coherence, sensible resourcing, and not losing the lessons from 40 years of child protection improvement.
"There's an 80-20 overlap between sensible behavior on resource limitation and sensible behavior on climate change," Ramsay Ravenel, the executive director of the Grantham Foundation, says.
"And the NHS needs investment, schools need to be brought back under local authority control to allow sensible planning and resource use.
In making sensible decisions regarding resource allocation, independent evidence-based recommendations to government to regulate the use of health technologies, as is the function of the National Institutes of Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK, provides an alternative model.
Until there is a "sensible allocation of resources" there will always be counter-productive outcomes, he said.
On Monday, I asked Dean Baquet, the managing editor, why the two major multimedia extravaganzas so far have been sports-related feature stories, and whether – as Mr. Lambert wondered – they are the most sensible use of resources.
Rejecting the snooper's charter, abandoned on his insistence in 2012, Clegg said it was wrong to try to sweep up vast amounts of information on millions of people randomly, adding that it was not a sensible use of resources.
The sensible and transparent resources standard topped up by loadings for evidence-based disadvantage that the Gonski panel recommended was designed to help close the gap between our most resourced students (most of whom attend fee-charging schools) and our least resourced.
Critics question how much will go towards appropriate kit (never mind how much gets stolen by corrupt generals) and whether it is sensible to lavish resources on a force implicated in atrocities and human-rights abuses.In this section Murder in the synagogue Gaining more foes than friends Imperfect union Selling BlackBerry Babes Arms and the African ReprintsThese questions resonate across Africa.
