Sentences with phrase «small human settlements»

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To make traditional villages, towns, neighborhoods and cities today — like the places we love to visit (villages and towns like Cooperstown and Key West; small cities like Annapolis, Savannah and Santa Barbara; and big cities with distinctive neighborhoods like Boston, New York and Chicago)-- requires a conscious and conscientious rejection of the way we've been making human settlements since 1945.

So even though it might be possible to provide wildcats with the habitat and space they need through small parks connected by wildlife corridors, ultimately such plans wouldn't work because the corridors would probably put the wildcats in closer contact with human settlements.

Two small settlements were found in the northern part of the bay, providing evidence of human activity in a region that has historically been considered uninhabited.

A combination of increasingly dense human settlement, people becoming better hunters and climate change may have reduced the availability of prey and pushed some wolves towards scavenging, which favoured tameness and smaller size.

By about 15,000 years ago the remains of small dogs were found in human settlements.

Over time Siberians who elected to remain close to human settlements self selected for traits of affection, lowered aggression, and a smaller size.

The Plitvice Lakes area has been a site of continuous human settlement since prehistory, and today, locals still inhabit small settlements scattered around the park.

The approximately 450 sand and mangrove cays confined within the barrier and atolls range in size from small, ephemeral sand spits to larger, permanent islands capable of sustaining human settlements.

The smaller, more obviously familiar humans live in scattered settlements and cities alongside the giant, behorned varl, a race defined primarily by its largeness and exceptionally long lifespan.

These forests are overgrown because nearby human settlements have interfered with naturally occurring smaller wildfires that have historically controlled the balance.

In the last two or three decades many small islands have undergone substantial changes in human settlement patterns and in socio - economic and environmental conditions.

This is much harder to measure than in undisturbed forests — these are trees in diverse small to large patches in abandoned agricultural lands intermingled with human settlements and are surely growing differently than trees in undisturbed forests or in the experimental planted and regrowing forests where carbon sink strength has been measured using precise methods.

Cats on FL might have been present since the early 19th century with a small settlement established by sealers, later used to exile the remnants of the Tasmanian aboriginal human population.

Besides shrinking sea ice there are currently also other factors that negatively affect polar bears, such as human settlements, industrial activities, hunting, bio-accumulation of toxins, and smaller seal populations.

This analytical document provides a contextual understanding of the challenges and opportunities of climate change in relation to human settlements in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Climate change is almost certain to affect human settlements, large and small, in a variety of significant ways.

Since then, he has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Small Claims Court and the Landlord & Tenant Board and has negotiated on his clients» behalf at over 75 settlement conferences and pre-trials.

When Rose, his lover, was attacked by humans for the ruby tears she sheds as an elf, he protected her by concealing her in a small fortress he built far away from human settlements.