LVI was positively correlated to the environmental sensitive area index (ESAI) measured on the same spatial and time scales, thus suggesting that a sound evaluation of land vulnerability is possible through LVI score.
Firstly, spatial factors were represented by built up, road, river, and ESA (environmental sensitive area).
Earlier, little attention was paid to conserving the initial environmental conditions at less environmentally sensitive areas for onshore operations.
Identifying the most environmentally sensitive areas during the planning of transport routes can help avoid environmental damage while availing of economic benefits that come from the improved infrastructure.
This is because an effective management of the environmental impacts during drilling operation has proven to lead to a greater access of reserves in environmentally sensitive areas, particularly those classified as 'off-limits' [1, 2, 3].
In January 2012, the State Department rejected TransCanada's application because of concerns about environmental impacts but invited the company to re-apply with a new route that would avoid environmentally sensitive areas.
EU agri-environmental legislation provides that every Member State may enact its own regulations specifying standards and environmentally sensitive areas.
The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) program, when launched in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1986, was the first agri-environmental program in the European Union (EU).
3 Opposition to Chinese projects on environmental grounds is "likely to expand in the future because of the number of potential projects... that involve environmentally sensitive areas".
Environmental campaigners bore the brunt of the repression after the new rightwing government licensed hundreds of mega-projects, including mines and hydroelectric dams in environmentally sensitive areas.
The perspective views of Riau Province generated by the model highlighted the need for forest/environmental planning controls for the conservation of environmentally sensitive areas.
