The phrase "and settlements around the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing geographical areas, communities, or regions that include various settlements or towns in proximity to a specific location.
Example: "The study focused on the economic impact of the new highway on cities and settlements around the major urban center."
Alternatives: "and communities surrounding the" or "and towns in the vicinity of the".
Focusing subsistence and settlement around the reliable wetland zones provided a dependable natural food-storage repository and allowed greater risk-taking strategies for other types of plant and animal exploitation beyond the wetland zones.
Connections between science, society and policy, particularly in cities and informal settlements around the world.
The crew sent an Acadian prisoner on the 17th to request the surrender of the remaining residents, but when he returned, he reported that they had all begun to flee to Cocagne, Shediac, and the settlements around the Miramichi River.
Fifty-nine healthy subjects (29 male, 30 female) were recruited (age 71.2 ± 5.4 years, body mass index 26.5 ± 3.0 kg/m) by eight family physicians in the towns of Abano Terme, Montegrotto Terme, Battaglia Terme, and Teolo, settlements around the thermal area of the Euganean Basin (Veneto Region, Italy).
On Tuesday the Government reported that two people had been killed and that four settlements around the reactor site had been evacuated.
After the severe droughts of the 1970s [71], [72], there were large human movements and settlement around water localities [30].
The survivors of the Iceland expedition meet them head-on, dividing them into groups and leading them to settlements around the globe.
Creating the park, which spread out from the south of the castle to cover 690 ha, required clearing away the older settlements around the castle and abandoning various fields and pastures.
Two years ago, I went to interview him with Sue Branford, because we were writing a book on the MST, Brazil's non-violent movement of landless peasants, which has won land and set up hundreds of settlements around the country.
