Sentences with phrase «encroaching urban»

that Justice J. Heneghan, who rendered the Federal Court decision, felt compelled to comment: «Considering the fact that the Greenbelt was conceived as a «buffer zone» against encroaching urban sprawl, the steps taken by the NCC to declare the land surplus and to obtain a rezoning of the land seem more consistent with accommodation of urban sprawl, rather than resistance to the erosion of green areas.

The remaining temperature stations are increasingly located in urban, The locations may be the same, but the encroaching urban enviri = onment makes these stations increasingly subject to Urban Heat Islands.

I found this tension was just what I needed to convey the otherworldly feeling I encountered in real life when I observed how nature adapts and mutates to accommodate encounters with the ever - encroaching urban environment.»

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As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

Aggie Lane of the Urban Jobs Task Force said they are working with students at the Syracuse University Community Development Law Clinic to try to come up with state legislation so larger industrial development agencies can not encroach on smaller ones.

Q: Coyotes seem to be everywhere these days, even encroaching on urban areas.

Finished with a top layer of white paint, the works archive the advertisements that punctuate urban life and encourage viewers to adapt, respond to, and erase these ever encroaching corporate images.

Other urban landscapes are explored in works by artists Oliver Comerford, whose recently acquired painting Out Here III depicts a night - time scene on the peripherary of the city, and Beat Klein and Hendrijke Kuhne, whose installation Property comments on how our cities expand at an alarming rate, encroaching on the countryside.

As growing metropolitan areas encroach into the surroundings of formerly rural observing stations, the temperatures at these stations rise, particularly at night, in response to the well - documented «urban heat island effect.»

Urban migrants encroach on rangelands traditionally managed by the Maasai, and the government sells land concessions to a burgeoning safari and hunting industry.

As the deer populations grow and urban habitats continue to encroach upon rural environments, there has been an increase in deer - car collisions — over half a million a year, with a significant number of fatalities.

In short, the threat of wildfires encroaching on urban areas is growing just as fast as the population (by almost 50 % in the decade spanning from 1991 to 2001).