A. Objectives. The goal of this reform is to deliver on the President's directives to (1) streamline our guidance for Federal awards to ease administrative burden and (2) strengthen oversight over Federal funds to reduce risks of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Rising population growth can lessen our quality of life because it: 1  destroys resources, such as water and forests, needed to sustain us. 2  slows the dynamics of a healthy economy. 3  decreases the level of biodiversity upon which we depend.  read 1  article. learn more.  get 1  involved. educator resources.
Often the distribution of resources, and the type of resource can influence how a population distributes itself in its environment. Local distributions often are limited by physical or abiotic factors of the environment. These may include: temperature, moisture, light, pH, soil quality, salinity or water currents.