That means unnecessary costs, wasteful use of land resources, adverse environmental impact and additional burdens on the taxpayer.

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The goal was to convene a meeting of high level experts in transboundary cooperation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of land and water resources.

UNESCO: Transboundary cooperation for conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial and water ecosystems | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

But many companies do not yet have an energy strategy, let alone broader sustainability strategies to manage the use of water, land, and other resources.

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Other taxes on production include: taxes on use of natural resources (environment tax), payments for land (land tax), licenses, state duties and levies payable by enterprises and organisations, real estate tax, extraordinary Ghernobyl mitigation tax.

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With a keen sense of dispossession, I wandered out of the neighborhood to find someplace to sleep, and discovered that I had barely begun to use the resources available to me when I came upon an undeveloped piece of land as wild as I could wish.

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The goal: compact living environments that require less resources and that get the most out of the land, water and energy they do use.

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