The site, which counts some 15 villages within its 42 square kilometres, is also threatened by pressures on land use for development and tourism.
That can be understood by comparing the land use needs of a nuclear plant with those of a wind energy project or a corn ethanol operation.
Stabilizing the automotive industry will also require the use of expanded strategies by automotive communities that include land use redevelopment, small business support, and worker training.
And it is this: fuller rivers cannot be explained by more rainfall or haze or changes in land use, but they can be explained by higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Land use in Japan is severely restricted by municipal zoning, agricultural land development, and fisheries and port management laws and regulations.
"We have to take note of these cultural influences, " said Dr Cassidy, whose research was funded by Nerc, the BBSRC. and the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, which is itself part-funded by Defra.
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It also avoids the land use problems created by other solar power systems.
That explanation doesn't work, since slowly rising demand can be (and has been) met by putting more land and fertilizer to use.
The United Nations recently raised concerns regarding the health and climatic impacts of particles emitted by vegetation fires in regions subject to land use changes and human driven deforestation such as South-East Asia, where they are responsible for 10, 800 premature deaths per year.
It means the 1939 kick seen in the nitrate "curve" above also incorporates some the delayed response from the land-use change brought about by the introduction of arable subsidies in 1917.
Geothermal power plants do not require fuel, are largely unaffected by weather and use a comparatively small share of the land and freshwater needed for most other energy facilities.
The producers argue that the engineered traits such as resistance to certain brands of herbicide or types of insects and virus actually do ecological good by reducing chemical use and improving yields so that less land needs to go under the plough.
In 1999, a land-use survey carried out for local municipalities by independent consultants found only about 9, 000 hectares of coca.
Experts also say the potential savings here may be offset by higher prices somewhere else as farmers use their more crop land to experiment with alternative fuel crops.
The folks in Boulder County, Colorado were unfortunately able to see this phenomenon play out first hand on December 4 at a public hearing regarding proposed land use regulations for oil and gas development that are under consideration by the Boulder County Board of Commissioners.
He made ends meet by doing p.r. and political work but focused in the mid-1990s on land use and met Fox, who was running political campaigns in Massachusetts.
Mr Burton , who owns the land the Gypsies occupy, said the group has always abided by court rulings and will continue to use the legal system to argue their case.
If the Department of the Environment's estimate that, under current land-use patterns, 169, 400 hectares will go from rural to urban use by 2016 is correct, the proportion of England that is considered urban would increase 1.3 percentage points, to 11.9%.
In particular, some developing countries are angry at what they see as western nations' attempts to insert new loopholes into regulations on how emissions from land use change are accounted for, which could allow western nations to cut actual emissions by less than they have pledged.
This will acquire pictures of land use and vegetation changes from an altitude of 820km, maintaining an important data series started by the French Spot satellites in the late 1990s.
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The activity will provide various approaches by different experiences of relevant actors on these topics, in order to generate debate to identify problems related to land use and agreed conclusions and recommendations to generate basic guidelines sustainable over time.
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He suspended the use of prescribed burns by state agencies on state lands -- including state parks, refuges, State Land Board lands and any agency that manages lands -- or under contract on nonstate lands, such as by the Colorado State Forest Service.
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