Unique design innovations are also changing the development landscape.
The present research investigated visual preferences for nature development landscapes among 500 residents from six plan areas in The Netherlands.
More recent declines in population numbers of sage-grouse and other sagebrush-obligate species in Wyoming have been linked to large-scale development of the landscape for energy, particularly underground reserves of oil and natural gas (Lyon and Anderson 2003; Walker et al. 2007; Becker et al. 2009; Harju et al. 2010; Gilbert and Chalfoun 2011).
Knowledge about intensity and spatial pattern of urban land changes (ULCs), i.e., changes from non-built-up to built-up lands, is important to a wide range of issues, from understanding of human environment interactions and provision of urban ecosystem services, to land use policy development for landscape and urban planning toward sustainable urbanization.
Two recent African events illustrate how much the landscape for development finance has changed — and what role the World Bank will play in the future.
Finally, because biotech companies and pharmaceutical companies are enjoying a mutually beneficial landscape for development and capital acquisition, more partnerships between these types of companies are forming.
The urgent need for new, safe and sustainable interventions against diseases that disproportionally affect the poor is finally receiving global attention and the funding landscape for development projects has significantly improved during the past decade.
The High Level Forum in Busan may have been successful in recognising a much more complex landscape for development than previously conceived, but the challenges to coordination remain.
One only need look to Apple's iOS to see how dramatic and unpredictable developments can change the landscape for startups, customers and investors.
It explores what this rapid development legal landscape means for business (be it local or international), in particular the need for business to develop and implement comprehensive anticorruption compliance programs and the importance of conducting robust due diligence along their supply chain.
