Sentences with phrase «role on land use»

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.

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The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

The NYC Council's Committee on Finance voted to increase the Council's operating budget to $ 81.3 million, an increase of nearly 27 percent from the current budget, following through on Speaker Corey Johnson's promise to increase internal resources and produce a stronger role for the legislative body in areas such as land use and oversight.

At first, this newsletter will focus on the role of elected officials in Queens on changes in land use and housing policy.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz is accepting applications from qualified and community - minded individuals who would like to serve on one of the borough's 14 Community Boards, which play an important advisory role in considering land use and zoning matters.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is accepting applications from qualified and community - minded individuals who want to serve on one of the borough's 14 Community Boards, which play an important advisory role in considering land use and zoning matters.

While the job of borough president has lost much of its influence since the days of the city Board of Estimates, borough presidents do still retain a significant role in approving and shaping land - use and zoning decisions, a topic Menin was happy to focus on.

Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.

Rather than fight heavyweight Queens Boss Joe Crowley and Brooklyn's Vito Lopez for the top Finance and Land Use chairmanships, he glommed leadership roles on several heavy - duty committees and beefed up Joel Rivera's majority leadership post while getting him co-chairmanship of the Rules Committee.

The 54 members were appointed by Katz to serve two - year terms on their respective community boards, which play an important advisory role in dealing with land use and zoning matters.

While on the Council, she was chair of the land use committee, and played a key role in moving forward the massive rezoning the city underwent during the Bloomberg administration.

The journal also focuses on emerging professional issues, the role of education, evolving theories of post-modern humans and their environment, land use policy, the science of collaboration and more.

A large German consortium has been studying how land - use intensification affects functional diversity, and more work needs to be done on the role of spatial data and interactions at the landscape level, rather than in microcosms or individual study sites.

COELHO COA, FERREIRA AJD, LAOUINA A, BOULET A-K, CHAKER M, NAFAA R, NACIRI R, REGAYA K, HAMZA A, CARVALHO TMM e KEIZER JJ The role of land - use changes on erosion yields and overland flow generation in the Maghreb region (2005) Journal of Water Sciences (Revue des Sciences de L'Eau),, vol.17, 2, pp.163 - 180 DOI: NA

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy..On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy..on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy..on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

Le Feuvre began in her new role two weeks ago, and a website has been established with background on the artists and a list of the foundation's board — including as board president Matthew Coolidge, the founder of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles.

He is correct to put the finger on deforestation (or more correctly land - use change), however one can not brush aside the role of fire.

These forcings are spatially heterogeneous and include the effect of aerosols on clouds and associated precipitation [e.g., Rosenfeld et al., 2008], the influence of aerosol deposition (e.g., black carbon (soot)[Flanner et al. 2007] and reactive nitrogen [Galloway et al., 2004]-RRB-, and the role of changes in land use / land cover [e.g., Takata et al., 2009].

As for longer trends, there are of course other factors that could play a role, but you perhaps don't realise that the association of the trends over the last few decades with human forcings (which include other GHGs, aerosols, land use, ozone depletion etc.) are not just based on a correlations.

The toolkit has a specific focus on cities in less - developed and developing countries where significant infrastructure will be built to cater to a growing transportation demand and, therefore, land - use and transport policies can play an important role in shaping mobility demand and mode choice.

Carbon and Other Biochemical Cycles: On the headline statement in this section, Brazil insisted on nuancing the relative contribution of land - use change to the increase of CO2 concentrations, and including reference to the role of forests as sinks, with Venezuela proposing to refer to the net balance between emissions and carbon capture by land systemOn the headline statement in this section, Brazil insisted on nuancing the relative contribution of land - use change to the increase of CO2 concentrations, and including reference to the role of forests as sinks, with Venezuela proposing to refer to the net balance between emissions and carbon capture by land systemon nuancing the relative contribution of land - use change to the increase of CO2 concentrations, and including reference to the role of forests as sinks, with Venezuela proposing to refer to the net balance between emissions and carbon capture by land systems.

So calculations based on the balance between energy use by industry and society, and the role of the land in mitigating or enhancing climate change must be re-examined.

As anticipated, land use and forestry had a key role to play in negotiations on the new climate and development agenda.

The RUAF Foundation regularly organises study visits, including the one - week study visit on social organisation to the Netherlands, for leaders of urban producer organisations from Uruguay, Brazil, Peru and Argentina; the one - week study visit to the Netherlands and the UK on multifunctional urban agriculture and urban land - use planning, for city officials and senior researchers from China; and the study visit to Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa) on the role of urban agriculture in mitigating the effects of the HIV - AIDS epidemics for NGO staff and health officers from Sub Saharan countries, organised in cooperation with CTA (the Netherlands).

However, the need to define outside influences on land use in regional - scale models, such as global trade, remains a challenge (e.g., Sands and Edmonds, 2005; Alcamo et al., 2006b), so IAMs have an important role to play in characterising the global boundary conditions for regional land - use change assessments (van Meijl et al., 2006).

The role of land use modifications on the CO2 could, however, be clarified significantly, and so could some second order feedbacks (by second order feedbacks I mean nonlinearities in the feedbacks).

Process - based studies have focused on understanding the role of the land surface on climate, with research looking into the regional impact of historical or hypothetical (future scenario) land - use change on climate, as well as understanding diurnal - scale relationships between surface fluxes of heat and moisture and subsequent atmospheric processes such as convection and the generation of precipitation.

The article examines David Greenfield and his role as chair of the Committee on Land Use on the New York City Council.

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In December 2007, the new Australian Government has identified economic development as a significant factor which «lies at the heart of efforts to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians» and «supports Indigenous peoples using their lands for economic development».31 This policy direction will play a significant role in Australia meeting the objectives of Article 1 of the Declaration on the Right to Development: 32