Sentences with phrase «rural land use»

Over time, towns and cities grow, new roads and airports are built, and rural land use changes.

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Our community's mission is to be an environmentally sustainable, affordable, multi-generational cohousing community that includes land reserved for agricultural use and open space and is an innovative housing model for rural Maine.»

And Mr Taylor, an MP in Cornwall has been asked to advise the government on land use and planning in rural areas.

Professor Clare Hinrichs from Pensylvania State University will be giving a Rural Economy and Land Use seminar on «Boundary Work in Interdisciplinary research on Sustainable Food Chains».

The working team will create practical solutions to promote efficient land use, economize on infrastructure, support economic development, and protect rural land, parks, and watersheds.

Lee adds: «Such aspects include effective use of land unsuitable for growing crops, production of higher quality protein and more bioavailable micronutrients, improved animal welfare, prosperous rural communities and flood prevention.

In collaboration with elephant scientists from Cornell University, Save the Elephants, Trunks and Leaves, Disney's Animal Kingdom and University of Peradeniya the team now hope that beehive deterrents, used so successfully to ward off African elephants from rural farm lands, can be applied to prevent Asian elephant populations from raiding crops.

The Ministry of Justice is now using legal mediation measures to resolve disputes over land between indigenous communities and rural producers, he says.

Moreover, unsustainable land use practices, coupled with the effects of climate change, lead to land degradation, falling agricultural yields, rise in rural poverty, land abandonment, forced migration and conflict.

After returning, they built a house in California using only hand tools, developing a piece of raw land into a functioning rural homestead.

After World War II, Land Rover noticed a need for a dual - purpose vehicle that could be used in rural areas for farming and chores, as well as regular transportation.

Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia.

Short clips depict the strategies and tactics that rural women, Maathai and other activists used to protect critical public lands, fight for human rights and protest political corruption.

Compare loan rates offers from different commercial property lenders by completing a short commercial mortgage mini-application for properties such as multi-family, self - storage, mobile home parks, airport, warehouses, retail strip centers, mixed - use property (gas stations, retail stores) office building, hotels and motels, rural, land development.

Epidemiology can not identify a single specific cause for these transforming changes in the character of Leptospirosis but several factors are thought to be important: (1) Impact of use of Bivalent vaccine in late 1970s & 1980s with subsequent reduced use in the 1990s (2) Expansion of suburbs into formerly rural lands, & (3) Increased interaction / encroachment of people & pets upon wildlife.

Surely, smarter planning of existing land - use, and modernizing agricultural practices (such as «digital farming» in rural Shanghai) would more directly address the underlying problem of food security.

This guidance document presents climate - smart land use, which gives an opportunity for advancing the multiple win of sustainable food production, rural development, climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, and ecosystem resilience.

The document also states that climate - smart land use can contribute to improving rural livelihoods and strengthening the resilience of rural communities, while safeguarding the rights of indigenous peoples.

Franz said in an interview Wednesday that she wants to ensure that money raised will be used to reduce carbon pollution and help make state lands, water and rural communities more resilient to climate change impacts.

Otherwise there will be no chance of the many reforms required outside the forestry sector: in land - use planning and rural development, in agriculture, energy and infrastructure policies, and much else.

Cross cutting sections explore climate change impacts at the intersection of various sectors (such energy, water, and land use), as well as impacts on urban areas, rural communities, Indigenous Peoples, and more.

So land use changes and rural electrification appears to impart a major impact upon the global temperature increase.

The dates of the land use changes temperature impact seems to be at a plateau around 1935 to 1975 coincide with the beginning of the Rural Electrification Act of the New Deal.

In areas where infrastructure is poor and carbon stores are high, REDD may offer attractive economic returns relative to conventional logging and agricultural use of forest land, especially for rural communities, which are often bypassed by industrial development of rainforests.

we calculated the global land temperature using only rural stations.

Terry's recommendations were: better, joined - up policy; better training for urban planners, to take rural issues into account; solutions for mixed land use; crime reduction targets for rural crime; markets farmer involvement with the London Food Strategy, link up London Emissions Zone with food policy.

It was authored by Charlotte Wickham, Judith Curry, Don Groom, Robert Jacobsen, Richard Muller, Saul Perlmutter, Robert Rohde, Arthur Rosenfeld, and Jonathan Wurtele and is titled Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average Using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications.

In their second approach, the BEST team performed a global land temperature reconstruction with their own methodology, using all the data and the very - rural sites only.

On the land - use front, Brazil reiterated its promise to end illegal deforestation and restore 12 million hectares of forest by 2030 — mostly by continuing to implement its Forest Code, which was overhauled two years ago and amended last year to create incentives for the country's six million private landowners to join the Rural Environmental Registry System (Cadastro Ambiental Rural / «CAR»), which is linked to a satellite monitoring system that tracks land use.

Diverse studies of global land cover and potential productivity suggest that anywhere from 600 million to more than 7 billion additional acres of underutilized rural lands are available for expanding rain - fed crop production around the world, after excluding the 4 billion acres of cropland currently in use, as well as the world's supply of closed forests, nature reserves, and urban lands.

The land sector is responsible for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and changes to land - use practices have the potential to significantly contribute to reducing emissions, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improving rural livelihoods, and promoting countries» ability to adapt to a changing climate.

2) Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average Using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications Charlotte Wickham1, Judith Curry2, Don Groom3, Robert Jacobsen3, 4, Richard Muller3, 4, Saul Perlmutter3, 4, Robert Rohde5, Arthur Rosenfeld3, Jonathan Wurtele3, 4

The use of wood provides substantial environmental benefits, provides incentives for private landowners to maintain forest land, and provides a critical source of jobs in rural America.»

Even rural stations have suffered from land use temperature increases over 150 years and 0.5 degrees of increase would not be recognizable from white noise over that long of a period.

Small, multifamily dwellings in walkable / bikeable cities broken up by greenspace parks and trails would be a start for urban design, whereas rural living is going to be much harder to pin down and encourage wise land use, etc..

As a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association (ALA), a multi-disciplinary organisation which furthers excellence amongst rural professionals, she has particular expertise in handling disputes over the use and occupation of agricultural land.

Many rural employers have concerns, whether justified or not, that interviewees may use rural employment as a stepping stone to landing metro employment.

«Figure 1 contains information on four environmental characteristics (land use, pedestrian location, light condition, and time of day and season) where / when pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2013: ■ More occurred in urban areas (73 %) than rural areas (27 %).1 ■ More occurred at non-intersections (69 %) than at intersections (20 %) for pedestrian location (10 % was other locations such as parking lanes / zones, bicycle lanes, shoulders / roadsides, sidewalks, medians / crossing islands, driveway accesses, shareduse paths / trails, non-trafficway areas, and other).

It could also provide proof of land ownership in rural communities and could be used to provide digital identities for example.

Their teams help owners to optimise the use of land and buildings managing a huge range of rural and residential property and identifying potential new projects which involve the local community and other properties.

Urban Planners examine aspects of the use of land to determine how to create an urban, suburban or rural community.

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Enjoyment of the land — which might be the case if you buy and hold a piece of vacant rural land with the intention of using it to go camping or fishing while you wait for the value of the land to increase over time).

Led by telecommuters, rural sprawl is emerging as a land - use issue for conservationists.