scholarly journals Natural Resource Use Dilemma: A Review of Effects of Population Growth on Natural Resources in Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Ouma Ochola
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Natural Resource Use

scholarly journals Ownership Risk, Investment, and the Use of Natural Resources

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Bohn ◽  
Robert T Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Empirical Models ◽  
The Political ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Risk Investment

The effect of insecure ownership on ordinary investment and natural resource use is examined. Insecure ownership is postulated to depend on the type of government regime in power and the prevalence of political violence or instability. The political determinants of economywide investment are estimated from cross-country data, and the results are used to form an index of ownership security. When introduced into empirical models of natural resource use, this index has a significant and quantitatively important effect on the use of forests and petroleum. Contrary to conventional wisdom, ownership risk slows resource use in some circumstances. (JEL Q20, Q30, E22)

Poverty, environment and natural resource use: introduction to the special issue

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 537-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
EKKO C. VAN IERLAND ◽  
HANS-PETER WEIKARD
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Natural Resource Base ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Per Capita Consumption

A growing population and growing per capita consumption threaten the environment and the natural resource base. Where natural resources are at risk, the livelihoods of many are at risk as well. In May 2006 the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group of Wageningen University organized a conference on ‘Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use’ with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the links between poverty and the natural resource base. The state of the environment affects people's living conditions – and poverty affects environmental quality. Environmental policies cannot be designed and natural resources cannot be managed without appropriate consideration of local people's reactions to those policies and management decisions.

scholarly journals Payment schemes for hydrological ecosystem services as a political instrument for the sustainable management of natural resources and poverty reduction – a case study from Belén, Nicaragua

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hack
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Payment Schemes

Abstract. The importance of intact ecosystems for human-wellbeing as well as the dependence on functions and services they provide is undoubted. But still neither the costs of ecosystem degradation nor the benefits from ecosystem functions and services appear on socio-economic balance sheets when development takes place. Consequently overuse of natural resources is socio-economically promoted by conventional resource management policies and external effects (externalities), equally positives and negatives, remain unregarded. In this context the potential of payments for hydrological ecosystem services as a political instrument to foster sustainable natural resource use, and rural development shall be investigated. This paper introduces the principle concept of such payments, presents a case study from Nicaragua and highlights preliminary effects of the application of this instrument on natural resource use and development.

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Jesper Larsson ◽  
Eva-Lotta Päiviö Sjaunja
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Parallel Processes

AbstractIn the first chapter we set the scene for the books overarching question: How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? We explain why we consider self-governance and colonialism as two parallel processes that are not mutually exclusive and how the book contributes to the discussion about the nature of indigenous peoples’ rights to land and water by focusing on early modern strategies for natural resource use. This can contribute to the discussion about decolonization of present-day practices and policies. We explain why an interdisciplinary approach is required that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven.

scholarly journals Predicting the Material Footprint in Germany between 2015 and 2020 via Seasonally Decomposed Autoregressive and Exponential Smoothing Algorithms

Resources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Buhl ◽  
Christa Liedtke ◽  
Sebastian Schuster ◽  
Katrin Bienge
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Private Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Exponential Smoothing ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
Stable Material

Recent research on the natural resource use of private consumption suggests a sustainable Material Footprint of 8 tons per capita by 2050 in industrialised countries. We analyse the Material Footprint in Germany from 2015 to 2020 in order to test whether the Material Footprint decreases accordingly. We studied the Material Footprint of 113,559 users of an online footprint calculator and predicted the Material Footprint by seasonally decomposed autoregressive (STL-ARIMA) and exponential smoothing (STL-ETS) algorithms. We find a relatively stable Material Footprint for private consumption. The overall Material Footprint decreased by 0.4% per year between 2015 and 2020 on average. The predictions do not suggest that the Material Footprint of private consumption follows the reduction path of 3.3% per year that will lead to the sustainable consumption of natural resources.

Producer–Scrounger Models and Aspects of Natural Resource Use

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Barta
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Use Of Resources

Humans are using natural resources at unprecedented rates, a situation that could lead to various global catastrophes. To mitigate eventual consequences, the processes involved must be better understood. Resource use frequently involves groups; thus free-riding behavior must be expected. Exploitation of others’ efforts can dramatically alter how resources are utilized. This chapter argues that exploitation of harvesting efforts can be analyzed as a producer–scrounger evolutionary game. The presence of scroungers (exploiters) in a group usually decreases overall use of resources by the group. Factors that increase the proportion of scroungers can further decrease resource use. By contrast, aggression and the compatibility of scrounger and producer strategies elevate resource use. Encouraging scrounging may lower resource use, but this raises a moral dilemma: individual scrounging is bad, reduced resource overuse by the population is good. The consequences of cheating in natural resource management demands attention in future research.

scholarly journals Meshing Natural Resource Use and Development with Increasing Urbanization

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
W. B. Back
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Economic Equilibrium ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Science ◽  
Real Science ◽  
The Earth

C. R. Enock, speaking as a conservationist in 1913, made a plea for the merging of the sciences into a new science “ …a comprehensive and constructive science whose aim would be to evolve and teach the principles under which economic equilibrium in the life of communities may be attained”. He stated, further:…the real science of living on the earth, or “human geography,” the adaption of natural resources and national potentialities to the life of the community, has never been formulated. The congestion of the population in towns, the desertion of countryside, the high cost of living, low wages, unemployment and so forth are related phenomena, intimately connected with the conservation and development of natural resources …

American Conservation Viewpoints

1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suk-han Shin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Ecological View ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Total Environment

The evolving conservation views and movements in the United States are characterized by their changing social goals and the resultant alteration of attitudes towards the physical environment. Our examination results in a six-stages classification of conservation views: (1) the naturalist view, which was based on the idea of undisturbed harmony of Nature; (2) the utilitarian view, which was highly influenced by Gifford Pinchot's conservation philosophy of ‘common goods for common men’ in natural resource use; (3) the ethical view, which resulted from an awareness that increasing consumption combined with increasing population would deplete resources and depress living standards; (4) the developmental view, or a technocratic approach to resource development, which rejected a fixed inventory of natural resources and perceived an everincreasing resource base; (5) the aesthetic view, which valued the aesthetic contribution of natural resources more than the economic contribution, i.e. amenity value versus commodity value of natural resources; and (6) the ecological view, which is based on the concept of an ecosystem wherein Man is an integral and inseparable part of the total environment and is responsible for the maintenance of the total environment.These conservation views of the United States reflect a historical conflict between progressivist and preservationist philosophies of natural resource use. The conflict derives from changing societal concepts of resource scarcity regarding their physical, economic, or qualitative, aspects. The current ‘ecological’ view remains uncertain in terms of its concept of scarcity.

McCulloch, Scrope, and Hodgskin: Nineteenth-Century Versions of Julian Simon

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Kern
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Natural Resource Scarcity ◽  
Growing Population

In The Ultimate Resource (1981, 1996), and in many other publications over the last several decades, Julian Simon put forth controversial views regarding the connection between natural resource scarcity, population growth, and economic progress. Simon argued, in contrast to those espousing the limits to growth, that natural resources were not getting scarcer, but more abundant, and that a large and growing population was an asset rather than a liability in the pursuit of economic growth.

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