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  • This move is intended to improve resource-use efficiency and bring the costs of operation and maintenance down.
  • He says every step they take up the development ladder is accompanied by an overall increase in resource-use levels.
  • The rise, and the scale of the rise, of new emerging economies in Asia should be a moment of reflection for the “old” rich countries about their own consumption and...
  • In these areas, as much as 43 percent of the land has been changed by agriculture and settlement, while livestock grazing and resource-use activities heavily impact the bulk of...
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