Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 4 docx

... Aggregates Global Resources A Global Partnership The opening paragraph of the Preamble to Agenda 21 pre - sents an unusually stark statement of the challenges facing humanity atthe beginning ofthe twenty-first ... oxygen, present in ordinary air, Global Resources Acid precipitation • 3 Overview The invention of photography was announced in 1839 at the joint meeting of the Ac...

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... populations con - 126 • Biotechnology Global Resources OriginOil cofounderNicholas Eckelberry standsbeside containersof algaethat he and his company hope can be used as a biofuel source. (Reuters/Landov) tinue ... reductioninthe cost of production of an - imal products. As with plants, disease-resistant ani - Global Resources Biotechnology • 127 Rambler, MitchellB.,Lynn Margulis,...

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... 22 61 12 747 Endangered species 325 2 54 79 21 85 65 64 19 51 12 599 United States 69 75 13 13 74 64 62 19 47 12 598 Other countries 256 179 66 8 11 1 2 — 4 — 1 Threatened species 32 21 40 11 66 ... of sand with coal, air, and calcium carbonate flowing up through the sand. Slag at the 344 • Electrical power Global Resources PEAK PART- TIME BASE LOAD 300 250 200 150 100 50 Meg...

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... near- perfect cubes. 44 6 • Fluorite Global Resources Source: Mineral Commodity Summaries, 2009 Data from the U.S. Geological Survey, .U.S.GovernmentPrinting Office, 2009. Hydrofluoric acid 85% Steel manufacture 15% U.S. ... have killed approximately 130,000 people (not including loss of life from storm Global Resources Floods and flood control • 44 1 Survivors of a deadly flood...

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... variety of geological settings. Pyralspite formsduring metamorphismofshale orba - 47 6 • Garnet Global Resources There has been occasional political interest in pro- moting hydrogen asthe “fuelofthe ... one that amounts to 54 percent of France’s total land area. In 2000, the “World Soil Re - sources Report” of the Food and Agriculture Organi - Global Resources France • 46 9 r...

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... 73 64 38 47 33 47 26 31 Fatal injury rate 0.03 0.02 0.02 0. 04 0 .40 0.29 0.02 0.01 0.01 All injury rate 5.13 3. 64 3 .42 6. 64 4 .46 4. 19 4. 45 3.19 3.01 Citations and orders 120,269 140 ,268 145 ,050 ... 145 ,050 58,3 94 77,732 84, 722 61,875 62,536 60,328 Percentage of citations that are S&S 36 33 31 42 40 38 31 24 23 Source: U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, O...

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... Exporting Countries Global Resources in parts of the developed world, which feared job losses because of outsourcing in economies already experiencing unacceptably high levels of unemploy- ment. ... absorb all of the capital earned by their ex- ports. Moreover, those profits are often enormous compared to the earnings of other OPEC states be- cause the cost of producing their...

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... and Recovery Act of 1976 (Public Law 94- 580), one of the most complex sets of regulations ever de- vised. Recycling of many of these materials is forbid- den, but the problem of how to reuse remains. ... in the rocks of the world. The concentrations of some of the rare earth elements are as high as those of copper or zinc. For example, the dark, fine-grained rocks composi...

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... harvested timber is used for sawed lumber Global Resources Switzerland • 1193 Global Resources Sweden • 1187 Sweden: Resources at a Glance Official name: Kingdom of Sweden Government: Constitutional ... example of the benefits derived from mechanization. Ecological Resources While Switzerland has almost no natural resources that are eitherphysically exportable andor importan...

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... Taiwan Global Resources Taiwan: Resources at a Glance Official name: Taiwan Government: Multiparty democracy Capital city: Taipei Area: 13,893 mi 2 ; 35,980 km 2 Population (2009 est.): 22,9 74, 347 Languages: ... Taiwan is rich in both on- shore and offshore wind energy resources. An island off the coast of Taiwan, called P’eng-hu, has some of the best available wind resources...

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