Sentence examples for closer to settlements from inspiring English sources

The UK is a more densely populated landscape, and shale gas operations will be closer to settlements as a consequence.

In the Zapotec community of San Juan Evangelista Analco and the Chinantec community of Santiago Comaltepec, as across much of Oaxaca, fewer people are farming; farmers are cultivating less land, working closer to settlements, and growing fewer crop varieties.

"Wildland is coming closer to settlements, rural areas are likely to be depopulated with the result that there is less management of forests and more build-up of flammable material".

This may be due, on the one hand, to the stocking of cattle closer to settlements, where soils are likely enriched with manure and domestic refuse (Hedges et al., 2005; Bogaard et al., 2007; Commisso and Nelson, 2010).

As a result, lacking individual bear identities in our models could mask the strength of a variable (e.g. proximity of a settlement to a clearcut), due to diluting effects from individual variation (i.e. some bears select whereas others avoid clearcuts closer to settlements).

Notably, sites closer to settlement community (Teshie Township, e.g. S1, S2, S3 and S4) and the hospitality industries (i.e. dotted hotels, e.g. S7) appeared to be relatively more contaminated.

Otherwise, they were either stall-fed or released into areas close to settlements, because they were very expensive.

The lack of assets due to the economic crisis and the disruption of seasonal migration patterns led to an overexploitation of easily, and oftentimes even openly, accessible winter, spring, and autumn pastures that were predominantly located close to settlements.

Landscape polarization of land-use intensity has increased with anthropogenic processes operating only on certain locations close to settlements and large parts of the island loosing their productivist profile.

They are usually found close to settlements (whose timber frames are much less well-preserved) and may have been for storing perishable agricultural products.

Mr. Hess said yesterday that the lawsuit had been "close to settlement until this hiccup on Monday".