Sentences with phrase «area of land under»

That's why, for example, the mass starvation predicted by Paul Ehrlich in his Sixties bestseller The Population Bomb never happened: because thanks to Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution, crop yields dramatically increased while the area of land under cultivation remained unchanged.

According to this study, the global area of land under certified organic agriculture in 2002 was 17.8 million hectares of which:

Not exact matches

The land area of Florida (170,000 km ²) and England (130,395 km ²) are similar to the land area under which lies Alberta's oil sands deposits (140,000 km ²), so the implication is that, once these deposits are all extracted, the land area will be disturbed.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

5 Land area is extrapolated from data in 2011 Ethical Sourcing Factsheet stating that at least 102,000 ha are set aside for conservation on Starbucks» suppliers farms, and that represents about 23 % of total area verified under CAFE Practices.

Boxing under international rules is very much like fencing; each properly delivered blow that lands in a prescribed area is of equal value no matter what its force.

He also said that more than 63 percent of the possible land area on which fracking could occur in the deep Marcellus shale in New York would be off limits under state rules and local zoning.

Under a state constitutional amendment passed last year, a total of four casinos will be allowed on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, the Albany - Saratoga area and the Southern Tier.

Under a state constitutional amendment approved by voters last year, a total of four casinos will be allowed on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, comprising Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties; the Albany - Saratoga area; and the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes area.

Syracuse's land bank was one of five established earlier this year under a new state law as a tool to deal with vacant and tax delinquent properties in urban areas.

The DRC has proposed measures to preserve its forests under the U.N. - based Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) system, including a suggestion to increase its area of protected land from 10 percent of the country to 15 percent.

Only about 13 percent of the world's land area and roughly two percent of its ocean area are currently under any sort of legal protection.

Almost 10 percent of the planet's land area sits locked under glacial ice, where humans have never ventured.

In parts of the tropics and sub-tropics, protected areas are under pressure from forces related to high human populations and rapid land use change.

Under current projected rates of sediment sinking and sea - level rise, the area of land at risk on deltas globally is expected to increase by at least half by 2100.

Still another would put all land classified under any of IUCN's categories of protected areas off - limits to industrial and infrastructure activities, similar to the policy at U.N. World Heritage sites.

With a population of 1.3 billion, China is under immense pressure to convert suitable areas into arable land in order to ensure a continued food supply for its people.

Today, up to 83 % of the Earth's land area is under direct human influence and we entirely dominate 36 % of the bioproductive surface.

«Today, 110 of the 169 countries that declared in 2013 that they are affected by land degradation or drought have expressed interest in recovering large areas of degraded over the next 12 years, under a special global initiative, the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme,» she obserland degradation or drought have expressed interest in recovering large areas of degraded over the next 12 years, under a special global initiative, the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme,» she obserLand Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme,» she observed.

Where there has been a failure to put land aside for schools when an area goes under development, such as can be seen at Fisherman's Bend in Melbourne, the Government (or private interests, in the case of private schools) has to then pay over the odds to acquire the necessary land [5], which has been known to quadruple in value over a short timeframe.

Airport development means --(1) Any work involved in constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise on any area adjacent to a public airport; (2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; and (3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.

The study (1) creates maps of land and transportation infrastructure that, without protection, could be inundated regularly by the ocean or be at risk of periodic inundation due to storm surge under a range of sea level rise scenarios; and, (2) provides statistics to demonstrate the potential extent of land areas and transportation infrastructure affected.

In Kenya the fact that only 6.988 % of the land area is under forest cover demonstrates the size of the task ahead.

This is why one of her legacies to Kenya, articulated under Article 69 (1)(b) of the Constitution of Kenya, was to ensure that the State shall «work to achieve and maintain a tree cover of at least ten per cent of the land area of Kenya,» In this respect, we invite all to partner with us to ensure that the ten percent threshold is reached and surpassed in the minimum time possible.

The consolidated City - County covers about 47 square miles of land area, on the northern end of a peninsula, and it has a population density of just under 18,000 people per square mile!

The Ark is under construction at Building 78 at JFK, with 14.4 acres of surrounding ground area including large cargo aircraft ramp parking and land use for animal handling.

(a) On any game management area, public hunting area, or forest reserve or other lands under the jurisdiction of the department, predators deemed harmful to wildlife by the department may be destroyed by any means deemed necessary by the department.»

INDOOR LIVING: - Fan - cooled open - air living pavilion rolls onto the garden featuring three distinct sitting areas, a large flat - screen TV and a partially sheltered stone terrace - The dining pavilion is open from three sides under a soaring roof, cooled by ceiling fans, with two tables, which, together, seat ten people - Separate alfresco dining area seating eight - perfect for a BBQ - Self - contained «butler» kitchen in addition to the main kitchen which is fully fitted with professional equipment OUTDOOR LIVING: - 11,000 square metres of land featuring beautifully manicured terraced lawns - Infinity - edge swimming pool bordered by grass and paving and furnished with sun loungers and umbrellas - Poolside balé relaxation pavilion containing lounges, coffee table and chairs

The AI can't operate under a basic «kill all» strategy, it needs to gather resources, claim land / area, build up tech / research, and work towards any of the several win conditions that exist in the round at any time.

This undeveloped plot with a surface area of 26 hectares is the largest piece of available empty land in Venice, which has made it the subject of countless speculation initiatives, such as the controversial idea of digging a railway tunnel under the lagoon to link the city with its airport, with a station located in this area.

First, the recent paper describing the threat of the «aridification» of a quarter of the planet's land area under continued global heating implies a critical loss of agricultural capacity.

I read somewhere that at least 75 % of all volcanic activity takes place under the sea, which would seem reasonable given the relative area of land and sea.

Today, President Barack Obama announced that he is withdrawing most of the Arctic Ocean and important areas in the Atlantic permanently from future oil and gas leasing under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

[5] This determination is justified by current estimates that put the total land area under perennial crops at at least 153 million hectares, which is 11 percent of the world's cropland; out of this area, only a small fraction of the land is used for energy crops.

Based on literature from a few regions and applied to a global scale, it was found that only 0.29 percent of total land area is currently under perennial energy crops.

The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service had authorized the leasing of 10.1 million tons of coal under 1,700 acres of the Sunset Roadless Area in order to expand Arch Coal's West Elk Coal Mine.

Under its Solar Energy Program, the BLM also excluded additional lands such as lands the BLM has previously identified in its land use plans as environmentally sensitive, including Areas of Critical Environmental Concern or other special management areas, that are inappropriate for or inconsistent with extensive, surface - disturbing Areas of Critical Environmental Concern or other special management areas, that are inappropriate for or inconsistent with extensive, surface - disturbing areas, that are inappropriate for or inconsistent with extensive, surface - disturbing uses.

A land use plan is a set of decisions that establish management direction for land within a BLM administrative area, as prescribed under the planning provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoland use plan is a set of decisions that establish management direction for land within a BLM administrative area, as prescribed under the planning provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoland within a BLM administrative area, as prescribed under the planning provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoLand Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoland - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were developed.

At the end of March, community members suddenly found signs on their lands declaring «Do Not Enter,» «Swimming Prohibited,» and «Caution, Area Under Construction.»

And as far as long term our Ice Box Climate is not good - having about 1/2 the land area under a mile of ice would not even make the most avid skiers happy.

All huge delta estuaries like the Ganges, the Nile, the Amazon or the River Plate are silting and thus accumulating sediment, which reduces the depth of the area under water and also gradually adds to the above - water land.

If the greater and Gunnison sage grouse are listing under the ESA could stymie drilling and mining activity on wide swaths of land throughout the western U.S., harming the economic livelihoods of people living in those areas.

Land tenure categories characteristically include private holdings (5 — 25 % of national area), communal land (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contrLand tenure categories characteristically include private holdings (5 — 25 % of national area), communal land (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contrland (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contrland under government control).

«(2) outside of any leased area or area scheduled for leasing prior to calendar year 2011 under any outer Continental Shelf 5 - year leasing program or amendment to the program under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344).

By 2035, about 170 communities — roughly twice as many as today — will face chronic inundation and possible retreat from affected areas under the intermediate or high scenarios, with more than 100 seeing at least a quarter of their land chronically flooded.

Imagine the economic cost of 2/3 of Florida being under water, of our coastal cities under water, or the loss of half of our arable land areas.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

Under a high emission scenario, the projections show that by 2100, 3 - sigma heat waves will cover 85 per cent of the global land area and five - sigma heat waves will cover around 60 per cent of global land.

More than 80 percent of the planet's land areas — and 99 percent of the population of the United States and Europe — «live under skies so blotted with man - made light that the Milky Way has become virtually invisible,» writes National Geographic.

In effect, under the current rules parties are free to not report on land areas that are sources of emissions and are allowed to report only on areas where reductions can be achieved.