Sentence examples for considerable land use from inspiring English sources

Transportation infrastructure projects often involve considerable land use, long-term investment, and huge resource.

The land use/cover trend analysis made for the two consecutive periods 1957 1985 and 1985–2005 has indicated that the watershed was subject to considerable land use changes (Figs. 3, 4, 5).

First, many economies have a "residual" pool of rural poor located on abundant but less favored agricultural land, and second, considerable land use conversion and resource exploitation are occurring through expansion of a commercial primary products sector.

This can be linked to the post-Little Ice Age warming, but also to the considerable land use changes that occurred in the Alps during the last 150 years.

Similarity of the homologue patterns of cropland on the one hand and grassland on the other suggests that there seems to be no considerable influence of land use on concentration levels of PCDD/F.

For example, although sugarcane farming has been traditionally performed in Capivari, it has been Rancharia that has experienced more recently a rapid sugarcane expansion that has caused considerable changes in land use and farming patterns.

Similarly, Impat ([1981]) and Ramsay ([1987]) summarized the literature on measured rates of surface erosion in Nepalese mountains and found high rates of surface erosion under various circumstances with considerable differences between land use types, e.g., overgrazed pasture (9.85 t/ha), protected pasture (1 t/ha), and forest (0.43 t/ha).

After the political changes of 1990, considerable changes in land use were observed in the former communist countries because of the disintegration of large state farms.

The inter-war period was characterized by a considerable acceleration of land use intensification and biomass production, combined with policy mechanisms aimed at decreasing import dependency (tariffs and price supports, Gessner, 2006).

Cumulative aspects cannot be displayed at present, but they have a considerable impact, especially regarding land use as a whole.

As soils are facing considerable changes in climate, land use, land consumption, and degradation, it is vital to understand the characteristics of soils and their distribution, especially for soil management issues.