The Berkeley Lab study undertook a systematic assessment of the availability of land using publicly available GIS (geographic information system) data on topography and land use and found a significantly higher availability of land that can potentially be used for wind power development, which is the primary reason for the higher potential estimates.
In MARKAL, the upper bounds of available energy crops were capped to reflect the limited availability of land for biomass in the UK.
India's biggest constraint to growth is the availability of land and water".
Another consideration is the availability of land for construction, free of landmark-district constraints.
Given limitations to the availability of land and water, what energy scenarios are feasible in the long run?
Alec Taylor, a partner at Matrix, said users were attracted by the availability of land and the dependability of approvals.
Rural villages are sited according to water supply and the availability of land, frequently including terraced agriculture in the mountains.
Increasing availability of land cover data offers new opportunities for landscape-level environmental research.
During the 1980s, financial service activity began to spill into neighbouring areas with better availability of land.
Because the availability of land has been exhausted, Leyte has supplied a large number of migrants to Mindanao.
The really big problems are different - tangles of factors to do with availability of land, access to finance and some pretty painful choices between competing desirable priorities.
