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… The exploitation of non-living marine resources such as oil, gas, sand, gravel, and diamonds and other precious … to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could also take the form of land reclamation, … and indiscriminate fishing practices, marine pollution, invasive alien species and climate change. …

… ‘groundwater mining.’ As with min- eral resources such as oil, fossil water is an exploitable resource with a finite … changes affecting water demand Over the summer of 2008 oil prices rose from $30 to $140 per barrel, giving further … for domestic use and have relied on income from oil sales to obtain food produced in other countries; but …

… distillation of starches and sugars to produce ethanol, or oil extraction and transesterification to produce biodiesel. … food crops such as corn (maize), sugar cane, soy, palm oil and rapeseed; or from inedible feedstocks such as …

… ecosystems, together with land-based sources of marine pollution, overexploitation of living marine resources, and … convenient settlement sites. Slow-moving barges and oil rigs are especially implicated in the transfer of …

… (e g direct or indirect impacts, underwater noise, light pollution etc ), works or facilities and capable of retaining … usually restrict extracting activities such as fish- ing, oil and gas mining, but also tourism; development, … spatial planning is necessary to regulate land use and oil exploitation as well as reduce mercury pollution from …