Niven has also written a logical fantasy series " The Magic Goes Away ", which utilizes an exhaustible resource called " mana " to power a rule-based " technological " magic . " The Draco Tavern " series of short stories take place in a more light-hearted science fiction universe, and are told from the point of view of the proprietor of an omni-species bar.
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That the unabating damage done to our fragile natural environment and to the health of our people is due in the main to uncontrolled exploration and exploitation of crude oil and natural gas which has led to numerous oil spillages, uncontrolled gas flaring, the opening up of our forests to loggers, indiscriminate canalisation, flooding, land subsidence, coastal erosion, earth tremors etc . Oil and gas are exhaustible resources and the complete lack of concern for ecological rehabilitation, in the light of the Oloibiri experience, is a signal of impending doom for the peoples of Ijawland.
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Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 in her Birthday Honours List for services to economics; was co-recipient ( with ) of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize; co-recipient ( with Geoffrey Heal ) of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists'" Publication of Enduring Quality Award 2003 " for their book, Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources; recipient of the PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award, 2007, of the American Agricultural Economics Association; recipient of the Zayed International Environment Prize ( II : scientific and technological achievements ) in 2010; and recipient of the European Lifetime Achievement Award ( in Environmental and Resource Economics ) from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2014.
