Sentences with phrase «land area rather»

If we calculated global temperatures without spatial weighting, we'd be treating the U.S. as 33 % of the world's land area rather than ~ 5 %, and end up with a rather biased estimate of global temperatures.

Not exact matches

In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.

The word kingdom tends to mean to us an area of land ruled over by a king; in the NT the word rather means the Reign of God.

I have been observing with keen interest for some time now how these nomads comfortably move about and do what pleases them especially in Agogo Traditional areas as if they were rather the indigenes of the land.

Since sediment carried by Bayou Lafourche 1,200 to 600 years ago only contained about 20 percent sand, but an abundance of mud, the researchers suggest that land building can be maximized by gearing muddy diversions toward vegetated areas rather than to capture sandy deposits along the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

Rather, the cards contain a succinct message from citizens of the Navajo Nation and surrounding communities in the Four Corners Area: «Say «No» to Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands.»

Did you not understand that clearcut land leads to greater erosion and severely reduces the number of trees that maximize the available moisture in a geographical area and improve the climate in a cooling rather than warming direction?

«Rather than see other readers of Serious Eats, Eater, etc.,» she writes, «which is the reason I signed up and went to that branded landing page, I see everyone in my area on HowAboutWe.

This rather wide beach, has a children's play area, as well as all the other normal facilities, and some sports, both the land and on water.

The culture and religion of Kyrat is never explored so it's just space to traverse rather than a real place, an area of land inhabited by a people who are nothing more than just vague background decoration.

Before we depart the land of memory, I want to note that the Xbox One X has taken a rather large departure in this area with 384 - bit memory bus instead of the standard of 256 - bit.

Of course, this being Golf Story, you've also got rather frustrating animals that are on the course, ready to pick up your ball and drop it in areas of the course where you'd rather not have landed.

Since 2000, an area of fertile ground roughly twice the size of the UK has been seized by land grabbers and consolidated into large farms, generally growing crops for export rather than the food needed by the poor.»

Most of the energy transfer from the surface of this rather wet globe is accomplished by evaporation, and heavily so in vegetated areas on land.

The land area of Australia is 5 % that of the whole world, 5 % of 167PWhr is 8350TWhr; presumably this would be a fair estimate of the full potential of Australia's wind power, if all, rather than just the best, resources were harnesed.

My own view is that the initiating mechanism is not small shifts in insolation hitting some kind of trigger related to snow albedo (the land - sea snow - ice area is relatively small compared to potential shifts in cloud amount and spatial distribution)-- rather it is shifts in global winds which likely relate to shifts in the jetstream (linked to...?

Since the whole ocean, Atlantic and Pacific, has warmed, as well as unpopulated land areas, doesn't that rather rule out UHI as being much of a factor, and, being a net warming, it also wouldn't be ocean circulation changes.

These two reconstructions emphasise warm season rather than annual temperatures, with a geographical focus on extratropical land areas.

Rather than redesigning your entire website, consider putting together some one - off landing pages focusing on your newfound areas of expertise.

Compensation acknowledges the ongoing connection of Indigenous Australians to land as well as the wrongfulness of dispossession, through compensating in land rather than money alone (even where the area returned is not traditional country).

Commonwealth parliamentarians have previously commented on the danger that progress will occur only in those areas with resources of interest to government and industry.80 Native title might then become a system to assist the state governments with land management, rather than to recognise and protect Indigenous connection to land.

Within this context of non-Indigenous land tenure and multi-layered interests in land, the Native Title Act places the onus on us to prove a continuing relationship with our country rather than requiring government (or other groups that assert interests in the claimed area) to disprove the native title claim.

Rather, extinguishment of native title within these areas deprives native title holders of the protection and enjoyment of their cultural rights and the opportunity for meaningful participation in the sustainable development of their traditional lands and resources.

Rather, compliance requires an indication of the impact of the proposed act on the community or social activities of the native title holders or areas or sites of particular significance or any land or waters concerned (section 237 (a) NTA) and so requires a statement of the community or social activities that are likely to be interfered with and the likely impact on them of the future act.

As outlined in the Native Title Report 200345 the native title policies of both federal and state levels of government encourage negotiations with Indigenous groups rather than litigation over areas of land subject to native title.

However, where that land is part of a greater area to which native title claimants maintain a connection and part of which is claimable as native title, the human rights principle that Indigenous peoples have rights to «effective participation» in the management of their traditional lands means that governments should strive to implement administrative processes that enable rather than preclude native title claimants» participation in the management of such lands.

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.

We would encourage you to have an organic lawn, or even an area of grassy land that is more like a meadow, rather than a cricket - pitch - perfect mono culture (the latter requires regular and considerable watering, feeding and weed control, as well as mowing to keep it in perfect condition).

The poor old hallway, rather like the landing, is always one of the areas of the home low among the must - do - something - about priorities.