Sentences with phrase «poor quality land»

Prominent among these in Australia are wealthy conservative landowners appalled by the very visible presence of the tall green - energy totems, a constant reminder of bucolic decay and the «upstairs - downstairs» disdain they have for those needing income from their often hilly, poorer quality land.

Not exact matches

Then, depending on where you live, a lot of land can't be used for vegetable production because it may be rocky or have poor quality soil.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

Increased land development, poor water quality and disease are leading drivers of their habitat loss.

Major threats to seagrasses include degradation of water quality due to poor land use, such as deforestation and dredging *.

This is a pretty dress but I find the ponte at Lands End to be poor quality.

The Land Rover LR4 and the Jaguar XJ, both of which formerly recorded poor TQI scores, also were ranked highest quality vehicles in the near - luxury SUV and luxury car categories, respectively.

The Land Rover Discovery Sport is a good - looking car with good interior quality and room, but it's let down by a disappointing driving experience and some poor ergonomics.

Because of the poor quality of data in general and the obligatory smearing of the nether regions, the much lower average temperature / energy is of the highest northern latitudes and land areas above 30N have their own erratic warming trend.

Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.