The phrase "a difficult landscape" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a challenging situation or environment, whether literal or metaphorical.
Example: "Navigating the complex regulations of the industry creates a difficult landscape for new businesses to thrive."
Alternatives: "a challenging environment" or "a tough terrain."
Broadway has become a difficult landscape for American writers creating new plays, chiefly because of the high cost of producing shows there.
Los Angeles, the country's most sprawling megalopolis, may boast a more dizzying array of horrible commutes, but many of them are the result of a difficult landscape — ocean restricting growth on one side, mountains on another.
At medium scales, turf-banked terraces create tread-and-riser topography that is a difficult landscape for a tree seedling to survive upon because of exposure to wind, dryness, and impenetrable surfaces.
"It's a difficult landscape for obesity programmes such as Mend at the moment", said its chief executive, Harry MacMillan, who complained that confusion over the coalition's policy of handing responsibility for public health from the NHS to local councils had left it facing "a declining and uncertain market".
"It's a difficult landscape, but there's plenty of opportunity for a startup that offers unique technology," said Sam Korus at investment manager Ark Invest.
He needs to improve on that but it is a very difficult landscape now".
Interest rates and terms have all been adjusted numerous times.The result is a shifting, difficult landscape only barely understood even by insiders.
It could prove a dead end, of course, but at least it offers new hope in an otherwise difficult landscape.
But things have changed for PBS, which must navigate an increasingly difficult landscape with growing competition from cable channels like Discovery, A&E and the History Channel, not to mention the Internet.
Ms. Mitchell, the 57-year-old president of CNN Productions, the documentary arm of CNN, will be responsible for navigating PBS through an increasingly difficult landscape, marked by intensified competition from cable channels like Discovery, A&E and the History Channel, and continued pressure to raise money from both the federal government and corporations.
Ms. Mitchell, the president of CNN Productions, the documentary arm of the cable network, will be responsible for navigating PBS through an increasingly difficult landscape, marked by competition from cable channels and continued pressure to raise funds from both the federal government and corporations.
