But the projects also offered vivid evidence that metropolitan areas are losing the struggle for stimulus money.
He also attributes the rapid expansion of cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston to their cheap, abundant housing.Even in the sunbelt, however, many rural areas are losing population.
By transferring the land to the exclusive propagation of oil palm, he says, areas are losing the ability to grow food for themselves.
More than 900 square miles of land degrade into useless desert each year, he said, while much larger areas are losing their productivity.
Urban green areas are losing their exclusively aesthetic and scenic significance and are increasingly acquiring a social value related to a return to the ancient rural traditions characterizing the history of peoples.
We concluded that less forested areas are losing species richness and diversity, and as a consequence species originality, and presenting a general trend of phylogenetic impoverishment at the landscape scale.
Councils covering the 10 most deprived areas of England – measured according to the index of multiple deprivation– are losing £782 on average per household, while authorities covering the richest areas are losing just £48 on average.
Recently, we showed that a side-effect of recombination in the honey bee, GC biased gene conversion (bGC), helps maintain the unusual bimodal GC-content distribution of the bee genome by increasing GC-content in high recombination areas while low recombination areas are losing GC-content because of biased AT mutations and low rates of bGC.
The period also coincided with the construction of the southern buffalo fence (Figure 1), a veterinary cordon fence designed to separate cattle from buffaloes for the purpose of controlling the transmission of FMD, so access to the Okavango swamp grazing areas was lost at this time.
The majority of these once pristine areas were lost across Africa and South America, particularly in the Amazon basin.
