"constrain development" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to discuss how something or someone is impeding the progress of something. For example, "The lack of access to resources has constrained the development of the new technology."
Already there are new legislative proposals in the pipeline to hack away at planning restrictions that constrain development.
In parts of the region, this will constrain development, stress natural resources, and increase competition for water among communities, agriculture, energy production, and ecological needs.
If this goes wrong and big government IT projects often do the country's neediest people will suffer badly.The coalition could, and should, embark on new reforms, chipping away at the green belts that constrain development around big cities, for example.
In your book, it appears the Chinese government often seems to constrain development and innovation, either by interfering in markets or trying to use its resources to affect outcomes.
The science indicates that it is not feasible in the majority of circumstances to destroy biodiversity at site A and simply reinstate it at site B. Thus, to achieve no net loss of biodiversity in Australia, we must be prepared to constrain development to those sites where biodiversity can genuinely be offset – which means reducing the area available for development.
There are four ways in which such lists are commonly used: to set priorities for resource allocation for species recovery; to inform reserve system design; to constrain development and exploitation; and to report on the state of the environment.
Enthusiastic "listing" (which confers broad protection) of buildings, even on old industrial sites, constrains development.
Indeed, we would argue that ROC data offer essential constraints on the development of any process model of eyewitness identifications, just as they have constrained development of process models of recognition memory more generally (e.g., Ratcliff & McKoon, 1991; Shiffrin & Steyvers, 1997).
Some of the inappropriate or compromised behaviours by farm fish could therefore be the result of constrained development within a captive environment, which could impact upon reproductive behaviours.
These resulted in statutory land-use controls, a poor public perception of the forest industry, and constrained development to some degree.
A crippling knowledge gap exists in poor areas, such that little is known about, and therefore little is done to prevent and treat the "long tail of chronic disease" that perpetuates suffering, constrains development, and creates conditions for insecurity and conflict in the world's poorest areas [ 20, 21].
