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  2. Global strategies
  3. Researching natural resources

Researching natural resources

  • Studying raw materials

Description

Investigating in a systematic way natural resources to establish availability, new uses and ways of conserving.

Counter-claim

Resources develop their usefulness when actual needs arise, not in some abstract future.

Broader

Researching
Presentable

Facilitates

Planning development of natural resources
Excellent
Developing sustainable development policy
Presentable
Developing economically
Presentable
Extracting natural resources
Yet to rate
Discovering new possibilities for use of natural resources
Yet to rate

Value

Unnaturalness
Yet to rate

Reference

International Institute for Environment and Development / World Resources Institute: World Resources 1987: an assessment of the resource base that supports the global economy
World Resources Institute: World Resources 1990-1991: global climate change report

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #4: Quality EducationSustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(E) Emanations of other strategies
Subject
  • Fundamental sciences » Material
  • Resources » Resources
  • Research, standards » Study
  • Research, standards » Research
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    S0028
    DOCID
    12900280
    D7NID
    203088
    Editing link
    Official link
    https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/researching-natural-resources
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024