Sentences with phrase «of timber resources»

The key difference, however, is that the endowments include a number of asset classes that are not available to retail investors, including private equity, hedge funds, and direct ownership of timber resources and commercial real estate.

Not exact matches

«It's one of the unique characteristics of the asset class,» says Tim Cayen, director of business development at Boston's Hancock Timber Resource Group.

Ari Levy, manager of TD Asset Management's resource fund, says eastern timber companies aren't the same as western ones.

However, it began a new phase of environmental deterioration with its great and increasing dependence upon non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels and on renewable resources such as timber and food.

When the world looks at Africa, the focus is normally on the rich resources of the continent, the gold, oil, timber, rubber, manganese, cocoa, coffee, and all the other bountiful blessings of nature.

In 2014, the then Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Barbara Serwaa Asamoah indicated that the government was going to commence with the importation of timber.

Its protection ensures ongoing timber resource protection, safeguards water quality of the Salmon River and allows for continued public access to state sanctioned snowmobile trails and other outdoor recreation,» according to Conservation Fund press release.

Portela, Juhn and their team examined timber, firewood, water and game hunted in tropical forests, known as bushmeat and set the monetary value of the natural resources based on the asset.

«Yet many tropical timber species are still thought of as a renewable resource.

The plantation experiment set in motion by the British was intended to help make the best use of the colony of Malaya's (as Malaysia was known under British rule) timber resources and was also instructive in the development of rubber plantations that were spreading across the region to fuel the booming new automobile industry.

The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current civil war on the country's wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial wildlife trafficking are increasing, as well as illegal mining, timber harvesting and charcoal production, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said in a report issued today.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

Even as industrial civilization reaches into the farthest corners of the globe to extract resources such as oil, timber and fish, environmentalists are striving to mitigate its deleterious effects on the biosphere.

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The large resources of timber and fish also attracted outsiders to Ketchikan.

When I think of Basic Materials, I think of resource extraction: timber, mining, agriculture, non-energy stuff.

But the list might include gold, silver, stocks of mining companies that focus on these two metals, hedge funds, mutual funds that endeavor to act like hedge funds, timber, farmland, private equity funds that buy privately held companies, residential and commercial rental properties, real estate investment trusts, commodity funds that buy everything from agriculture to energy futures contracts, stocks of energy and natural - resource companies, venture capital funds that invest in startup companies, and even bitcoin.

It is surrounded by considerable deposits of precious metals, as well as abundant timber and water resources Hailar, in Inner Mongolia, is an important distribution and energy center.

The vast expanses of land are what originally drew Europeans to colonize the country; Canada's spaciousness and natural resources, including timber, were hugely appealing to the colonizers.

Rockman: Well, the painting that's on the floor is about resources that humans have extracted from the lakes and the watershed from Pleistocene hunters and reindeer, to the fishing industry, to the introduction of salmon into the Great Lakes for recreational fishing, timber mining, and so forth.

The Tribe intends to manage the property for the primary purpose of long term sustainable timber harvest, while preserving natural values including fish and wildlife habitat, plant resources, and areas of cultural importance.

(see Cross Laminated Timber is Ready for Prime Time) It's wonderful stuff, made from a renewable resource that sequesters carbon for the life of the building, and with properly engineered connections is earthquake resistant.

Climate change almost always exacerbates the problems caused by other environmental stressors including: land use change and the consequent habitat fragmentation and degradation; extraction of timber, fish, water, and other resources; biological disturbance such as the introduction of non-native invasive species, disease, and pests; and chemical, heavy metal, and nutrient pollution.

The logging company Atlantic Resources has shipped millions of dollars worth of illegal timber from Liberia in breach of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's August order to halt timber exports, Global Witness revealed today.

Timber, agriculture, energy, materials manufacturers, and natural resources companies all have the potential to incorporate CDR into their operations, and could provide a much more diversified portfolio of carbon negative solutions than is currently being proposed by the IPCC.

• Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future generations

Much of Montana's past wealth and prosperity was built on exploitation of its abundant natural resources, from copper and timber in the west to coal and grazing lands in the east to oil and gas on the Rocky Mountain Front.

We are blessed with abundant wood resources that provide more than 2/3 of all potentially available biomass, including forest residue from timber harvests and forest thinning that improves forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests.

Horrified that farmers and loggers were stripping America of its trees five times faster than they were growing, and worried about the economic consequences of a «timber famine,» President Theodore Roosevelt created the federal Forest Service and pushed landowners to start sustaining timber resources.

Humankind's relentless consumption of resources such as timber, oil and minerals is continuing to destroy natural habitats around the globe.

A significant portion of the U.S. red alder resource is not available for harvest; forest practices rules constrain timber management in riparian areas where red alder is most abundant.

December 2005 «Timber, Taylor, Soldier, Spy»: How Liberia's uncontrolled resource exploitation, Charles Taylor's manipulation and the re-recruitment of ex-combatants are threatening regional peace», June 2005 «A Time For Justice: Why the International Community, UN Security Council and Nigeria should help facilitate Charles Taylor's immediate extradition to the Special Court for Sierra Leone» June 2005 «Dangerous Liaisons: The ongoing relationship between Liberia's natural resource industries, arms trafficking and regional insecurity», December 2004; «Resource Curse resource exploitation, Charles Taylor's manipulation and the re-recruitment of ex-combatants are threatening regional peace», June 2005 «A Time For Justice: Why the International Community, UN Security Council and Nigeria should help facilitate Charles Taylor's immediate extradition to the Special Court for Sierra Leone» June 2005 «Dangerous Liaisons: The ongoing relationship between Liberia's natural resource industries, arms trafficking and regional insecurity», December 2004; «Resource Curse resource industries, arms trafficking and regional insecurity», December 2004; «Resource Curse Resource Curse or Cure?

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

The rainforest would become a giant biotechnological factory, instead of being plundered its natural resources, its timber, minerals and water.

ESM 278 - Natural Resources Law and Policy [4 units] Salzman This course explores the law and policy of how we use nature - timber, mining, bioversity, fisheries, water rights, and agriculture.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

The job of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is to balance competing interests: To maintain wild areas while at the same time supporting extractive industries such as timber, mining, oil, and gas.

The livelihoods of many Malagasy citizens and the wildlife that depend on these resources are being systematically plundered by timber mafias who feed end markets that forgo legality and sustainability.

Much like in the American Wild West some 150 years ago, a slow - motion violent battle is being waged over who will gain the rights to these priceless territories and the wealth of timber, gold, water and other resources they hold.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Air Pollution, Air Pollution - Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution - Sulphur 85, Antarctic - Environmental Protocol, Antarctic - Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands and Whaling.

Analysis by World Resources Institute (WRI), an NGO, found that nearly half of fires occurred in timber and oil palm concessions.

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resources.

Our commitment to using homegrown timber has kept the company at the forefront of pioneering work to further the application of this resource, which is apparent in the bespoke architecture we produce.

The resource management issues he studied in the Pacific Northwest include the impacts of gravel harvesting on river channels and floodplains and the impacts of timber harvesting on erosion and sedimentation.

But in any event a law providing that the province can dispose of standing timber on any lands in the province would under Tsilhqot» in be both valid and applicable (para 102) to aboriginal title lands because the Supreme Court no longer seems to care whether the power to dispose of resources on title lands is part of the core content of «lands reserved» within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government.

Abitibi has reneged on the bargain struck between it and the province over the industrial development of the province's timber and water resources for the benefit of the residents of the province.

The large resources of timber and fish also attracted outsiders to Ketchikan.

The mountains have also provided vast natural resources in the form of timber and coal that have fueled the state's economy for the past 150 years.

However, unless ownership and management of the resources that go with the land - timber, water, minerals and wildlife, are vested in the traditional owners, there is little to build agreements or governance models on.

This 256.60 acre, 29Â parcel highway and riverfront package consists of rural commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, farm forest and timber resource zonings.