About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Natural resources, Resource economics, Water, Primary sector of the economy, Sunlight, Land, Resource depletion, Ecological economics, Wood economy, Natural resource economics, List of natural gas fields, Resource curse, Green economy, Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, Energy quality, Siberian natural resources, Asteroid mining, Natural resources of Ireland, Energetics, Earth Economics, QEMSCAN, RSEE, Natural resources in India, Non-renewable resource, Mottainai, Dryland salinity, Deep Economy, Hemp plastic, Market-based instruments, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Automated mineralogy, EconMult, Water scarcity in Africa, Material flow accounting, Nature's services, German Renewable Energy Act, Backstop resources, Bioeconomics, Resource allocation, Resource Profit Model, Farm water, Hartwick's rule, International Society for Ecological Economics, Land cover, Resource intensity, Pooling, Exploitation of natural resources, Crude, Resource productivity, Limiting factor, CC-PP game, Physical water scarcity, Economic water scarcity, Geodestinies, Resource distribution, Ferrallitisation, Resource nationalism, Gabor Granger, Sustenance. Excerpt: Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. Its molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state (water vapor or steam). Water also exists in a liquid crystal state near hydrophilic surfaces. Water covers 70.9% of the Earth's surface, and is vital for all known forms of life. On Earth, it is found mostly in oceans and other large water bodies, with 1.6% of water below ground in aquifers and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of solid and liquid water particles sus...
