From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears set to ...

Accounting for the actual value of natural resources, including resource depletion and population growth, shows that net savings per person are negative in the world’s most impoverished countries, ...

By Park Eung-kyuk One of the biggest challenges facing mankind and governments across the globe is tackling the dire consequences of climate change, pollution and the destruction of the ecosystem, and ...

It is sometimes useful when confronted with the flood of information we all receive these days to step back to ponder the major forces that currently are shaping our civilization. Although these ...

There's beena a lot of dicussion lately about so-called peak gold. But as gold's fans will tell you gold isn't a commodity, it's a form of money. Gold isn't actually intended to be used in anything.

The 2014 general election in Indonesia brings an opportunity for the Indonesian public to demand better natural resource management and environmental protection. Resource depletion may shake the very ...

Unless federal government takes urgent steps, Nigerians may face acute food insecurity in the years ahead with the alarming rate of depletion of vital resources such as marine and inland fish stocks ...

A report released Thursday states that the vicious cycle linking natural resource depletion and violence may have gone past the point of no return in some parts of planet, and will likely be ...

Ethnoecological studies have demonstrated the impacts that even relatively small-scale human foraging has on targeted species of shellfish and the structure of biological communities in intertidal ...

Robert B. Richardson is affiliated with the International Society for Ecological Economics, and is currently President of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. Experts widely agree that human ...