An approximately 50 km2 area was chosen within a coffee-growing region where data were collected on a variety of topographic and landscape features (aspect, slope, elevation, distance to river) and vegetation characteristics (canopy cover, vegetation structure, tree density) as predictive factors of vegetation, economic, and landslide damage at three distinct spatial scales.
Few in Britain have been blessed with such happy circumstances: a decade of economic growth, two landslide election victories followed by a respectable third, and an astonishingly feeble opposition until the end of 2005.
The social and economic costs of landslides are not well documented because of the dearth of scientific and inventory data.
H4 Household characteristics—including income, social support, whether a household has experienced economic loss from landslides, distance to hazard site, source of information, size of household, children, the elderly, and housing material are all significantly correlated with household relocation willingness, but the direction of the influences are unknown.
Juan Forero (NYT) AFRICA TANZANIA: PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED -- President Benjamin Mkapa received a resounding endorsement for his economic reforms, winning a landslide victory over three opposition parties.
The economic sands, and the landslide of Keating's recession we had to have, shifted under the foundations of the Goss regime.
Landslides and rockfalls are very common in both cities, and large expenditures are being incurred by both Governments on the investigation, design and implementation of mitigation and preventive measures to reduce the likelihood of the loss of life and economic losses due to landslides.
Perón himself, after being reelected by a landslide, was seeking an economic alternative that would have inevitably entailed major economic and social readjustments.
The geological issues and examples that we have used are some of the most applicable to everyday life, and therefore ones that many people will be able to relate to, such as geohazards (e.g. landslides), water supply, economic value (e.g. quarrying) and tourism.
