Sentences with phrase «on land use»

The data on land use change indicate that the emissions related to biofuels are significant and can be quite large.

The town's zoning and planning boards along with the town board vote on land use in the town but are guided by state and local laws on their decisions.

Though the study predicts these changes by the end of the century, global warming is slowly taking a toll on lands used for growing crops.

Town Boards vote on land use, waste management and highway issues.

The bird is found in 11 western states, and a listing could have led to significant restrictions on land use across more than a hundred million acres.

And it offers information on the land use process and public hearing schedule.

The results could have consequences not only for future climate models, but may also impact current policies on land use intended to promote fungi.

Some counties and government officials agree, assessing the viability of the business based on land use terms — not animal welfare.

Before we go about converting land to other uses, to develop sound agricultural policy, we have to understand the impact of dietary patterns on land use.

The existing provisions generally already enable Indigenous people to engage in, or allow, commercial activity on their land using leases and mortgages.

But this time she's on the opposite side of the table, advising developers on land use and zoning issues and lobbying on their behalf, too.

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In conventional farming, flora and fauna struggle to survive on the land used for production, which has a far - reaching effect on the local ecosystems.

I went to meetings and seminars on land use.

The book includes chapters on land use, climate change, trade policy, food loss and waste, nutritional health, and social equity.

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.

Use this resource to get up - to - speed on land use development practices that can be used to solve a variety of community growing pains.

Those options reduce GHG emissions indirectly through their impacts on land use.

Social groups were unhappy about making advanced biofuels from food sources, such as corn, or on land used for food crops because a growing population will need more food.

The City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises as well as the Committee on Land Use vote, which could allow development to move forward, was scheduled for 9 a.m. this morning but has been postponed until 11 a.m., according to the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation.

«This isn't a popularity contest... you need to focus on the land use rights.»

For example, the City Council broke from its tradition of deferring to the local council member on land use matters in 2009, when it approved a rezoning for Two Trees Management in Dumbo against the wishes of David Yassky, the Council member at the time.

The State Stakeholders made the appeal at a public hearing on Land Use Charge Bill, organised by the State House of Assembly in Osogbo.

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said most of the figures being bandied around on the land use charge in the state are mostly exaggerated.

EU law makers ruled that biofuels can compete with food production, contribute to climate change, and put pressure on land use — and so have set a limit on the quantity of biofuels that can be used to meet EU energy targets (at no more than 7 % of transport energy).

While the legislation effectively curtails the abilities of private landowners to rezone for development purposes, the dictates of the provincial Policy Statement on Land Use leave the door wide open for our provincial and municipal governments to do those very things, and they are doing it.

The Council has a long tradition of voting on a land use issues based on the opinion of the Council member whose district include the project, on the grounds that the member has the most knowledge of the community.

«Unlike most previous studies on land use that have focused solely on climate change impacts, the current study also accessed the land use impacts on the ecosystem,» says Minchao Wu, doctoral student in physical geography at Lund University.

And this month, the IPCC incorporated its analysis into a forthcoming report on land use change and forestry.

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Hong Kong media reported that all were in talks with Shenzhen's city government on land use in the new Qianhai special economic zone, traders said.

Explore Massachusetts land protection statistics by town, county, watershed, Regional Planning Agency (RPA), or eco-region, including data on land use, development, amount of land protected, ecological integrity, as well as changes over time.

He also volunteered as a member of the District's Advisory Planning Committee which made recommendations to Council on land use planning and zoning issues.

Mr. Constantinides — joined by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz — had led the opposition and the arm - twisting, and the Council almost always defers on land use matters to the wishes of the local representative.

«I am happy to say we have an agreement here at Astoria Cove that truly integrates this development into our community,» said Councilman Costa Constantinides, who represents the area where the development will take place, but does not sit on the Land Use Committee.

The board, which plays an advisory role on land use and community policy issues in the city, unanimously voted against the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals with the exception of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's office, which abstained from both votes.

Yeger told the Observer that it «offensive» to suggest that the donations would in any way influence Greenfield's decisions on the land use committee.

Plantations in Brazil, the world's biggest producer of ethanol from sugar cane, haven't encroached on land used for food cultivation or on the Amazon rainforest, he asserted.

Indonesia's complex rules on land use and the difficulty in prosecuting foreign businesses mean Singapore has its work cut out bringing companies to book under its new cross-border air pollution law.

Blaesser, whose firm does research on land use and development issues nationwide in response to requests from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®, is seeing a growing number of restrictive rental housing ordinances in states from Maryland to Minnesota.

I followed up my first article with an update that concentrated on land use change (LU) forcing.