Sentences with phrase «impact on land»

Time, as well as other market forces such as demand and supply, does not have any impact on the land.

Where is our free, prior and informed consent to a policy that will potentially have a large impact on our land interests?»

While difficult to say in the abstract, what is clear is that asking Aboriginal title holders to bear a disproportionate adverse impact on their land for the benefit of the greater Canadian public will not meet this test.

The Great Lakes are the world's largest group of freshwater bodies, hosting a large number of species within their waters and on their shores, but also sustaining life over large areas of North - America thanks to their tributaries» impact on land ecosystems.

This infographic shows public finance that went to activities that impact on land use in 2015 and that are therefore considered «relevant» in the context of Côte d'Ivoire's National REDD + Strategy.

As poor countries and their people move out of poverty, though, they will have a greater impact on the land they occupy, and will consume more resources and produce more emissions and waste, just as the rich world does today.

However, because hydroelectric dams have an impact on land and water environments, and because dams can only be efficiently located in a limited number of places, some newer laws have been designed to encourage electricity generation from other renewable sources, such as wind, tides, geothermal energy, solar energy (photovoltaic cells, concentrated solar power, and solar thermal energy), landfill gas, etc..

And what did Mr Taylor say about all the studies that show negligible negative impact on land prices?

It also contends that natural gas exploration has a lower impact on the land than renewables, as «Wind and solar plants, by contrast, require enormous amounts of land.»

Their impact on the land restores a healthy soil microbiome, increases the density of plants that cover the land surface, and — when incorporating perennial and native forages or trees — are able to store even more carbon deep underground, increasing its long - term stability.

The report also considered the impact on land use from scaling up such operations; it estimated that 1.3 percent of the state's land area would have to be devoted exclusively to renewables.

However, more and more people have also come to see the shortcomings of corn ethanol — including its impact on land use and food supplies.

Tide gauges measure the SL at various shore locations throughout the world (where SL has an impact on us land - dwelling creatures).

Now we see the impact on land use, deforestation, fertilizer consumption, food production, the limits to scaling up production, etc..

The effect of annual average would tend to affect both land and water; seasonal ranges would have a bigger impact on land.

The resulting series is at once imaginative and nostalgic: for home, for the changing American West, for the human impact on the land, for her brother who passed away unexpectedly one year into the project.

Nor does the war seem to be having any real impact on the land, even after the storyline is finished.

Just changing the zoning can have a massive impact on the land's value.

Students discuss deforestation's impact on land, water, air, and other living things and design eco-friendly community models.

Inquiry - based lesson explores human impact on land preservation.

Scientists closely monitor the size and movement of ice shelves because when they break up, they indirectly contribute to sea level rise through their impact on land ice.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

Urbanisation is good for sustainability, because it reduces population growth and concentrates the overall human impact on the land in a smaller area.

My decisions are made to minimize our impact on the land.

It's milk with a bigger flavor and a smaller impact on the land.

Mr Paton said productivity and technology gains and rainfall reliability had more of an impact on land values.

There is much debate over the relative merits of conventional farming, which has a large environmental impact on the land it uses, and organic farming, which may require greater land use for the same yield.

Before moving on to a «fresh study and interpretation» should we not draw lessons from, and be prepared to be admonished by, various older methods of Biblical readings and follow - up mission methodologies, which had such a great impact on our land?

If Reno wants to dismiss the ethical dimension of this issue, he will have to convince me that what happens in a confined poultry house from start to finish — and its complete impact on land, chicken, farmer, eater, community — is ethically defensible, especially in the face of the viable and sensible alternatives offered by operations like my own.

The process of extracting oil from oil sands is not a clean one; it has a significant impact on land, air, and water.

These problems could be at least as serious a consequence of modern agricultural technology as the direct impacts on land.

Davies also asserts that expansion will have a greater impact on landing charges than predicted, with fears of higher ticket prices.

Human impacts on land may be much greater than is obvious at first sight.

Toon notes that impacts on land or shallow water may ultimately do more damage by kicking up dust that could significantly darken skies and inhibit plant growth.

If you look at the following video, this is an example for a low - intensity plyometric exercise (disregarding that it is multilateral), because the hurdles are small and there is not a lot of impact on landing and taking off.

The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act imposes requirements to minimize impacts on the land and on natural channels, such as requiring that water discharged from mines will not degrade stream water quality below established standards.

Humans have made a great number of impacts on the land stretching from prevention of catastrophic wildfires, to Urban Heat Islands, to denuding the land, and pollution of the air and water.

Those are the kind of results the UN climate negotiators see as the future of farming — growing more food with fewer impacts on the land and climate.

«Today our impacts on the land cause a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions,» said Mark Tercek, chief executive of the Nature Conservancy, the body that led the study.

This study analyses the likely impacts on land use and greenhouse gas emissions of biofuel use by 2020.

The exhibit illustrates various aspects of the global plastic pollution problem, including impacts on both land and sea, humans and animals, as well as the relationship between plastic, the petrochemical industry, fossil fuels, and climate change.

In this study, we estimate ozone impacts on crop production and subsequent impacts on land use in the 2005 — ...

Increases in rainfall in south - east Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Argentinean Pampas and some parts of Bolivia have had impacts on land use and crop yields, and have increased flood frequency and intensity.

Not exact matches

Tyler Macmillan, interim organizational director for the San Francisco Community Land Trust, says that while a new startup such as Zeus probably does not have a perceptible impact on the local rental markets, its business model has the potential to cause problems.

New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.

«Raising meat takes a great deal of land and water and has a substantial environmental impact,» Gates wrote on his personal blog, Gatesnotes.com, a few years ago.

Many interacting factors influence whether and how wildfires will spread, including fire intensity, wind intensity, the quantity of firebrands that land on structures, the heat that impacts structures, how structures ignite, the distance between structures and vegetation, and the distance between structures.

The Sautners say the land men told them that their neighbors had already signed leases and that the drilling would have no impact whatsoever on their land.

Toronto's Land Transfer Tax (LTT) has had a significant impact on home sales and household mobility in the city over the longer term, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe...

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