{"id":2318,"date":"2019-05-13T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:17","slug":"rising-demand-of-sand-calls-for-resource-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/13\/rising-demand-of-sand-calls-for-resource-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Demand of Sand Calls for resource Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sand and gravel resources are the second-largest resource extracted and\ntraded by volume after water.&nbsp;&nbsp;With&nbsp;sand extraction regulated\ndifferently around the world, important regions for biodiversity and ecosystems\nare made more vulnerable by challenges in the local implementation of these\nregulations.A growing trend of unsustainable and illegal\nextraction in marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems makes this a\nsustainability challenge with a display of the various extraction impacts on\nterrestrial, riverine and marine environments. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/rising-demand-sand-calls-resource-governance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Sand and gravel resources are the second-largest resource extracted and traded by volume after water.&nbsp;&nbsp;With&nbsp;sand extraction regulated differently around the world, important regions for biodiversity and ecosystems&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}