Sentences with phrase «like erosion control»

However, mangroves are far from unexceptional, providing critical ecosystem services like erosion control, flood mitigation and nurseries for fish.

Not exact matches

For all its track record of innovation and investment the US has created for its tech businesses some interesting competitive disadvantages: high noise levels of spam and marketing, erosion of trust and degraded value of personal data, laws like Patriot Act and FISAAA which justifiably piss non-USians off, programs like PRISM which seriously undermine the credibility of the companies affected, the dead hand and zombie brain of an out of control military - industrial complex.

«Nevertheless, we should manage European forest to safeguard other functions, like biodiversity conservation, wood production, flood control, prevention of soil erosion.

Since then, the U.S. has developed strict soil conservation and erosion control measures under the auspices of the Soil Conservation Service to prevent events like the Dust Bowl from reoccurring.

Peatlands are a natural means of flood control, acting like a sponge to absorb large amounts of rainfall and runoff, while reducing the threat of erosion.