Mr. Jones and company have given us an African variation on the same theme that triumphantly stakes out its own pioneer territory in the expanding land of musicals.
US officials, however, have been watching the rapidly expanding land reclamation by China, which, according to estimates, totals more than 2,000 acres in the South China Sea.
In meetings last week, Arab envoys from the gulf agreed to study proposals to pool their military forces into a regional command, in an apparent reply to Iran's expanding land and sea powers.
As urban populations consume higher-protein food, the demand for meat and processed food is rising, which is expanding land use for livestock production, further accelerating deforestation and increasing greenhouse gas emissions by agriculture.
Small but expanding land use types in the County are the small-holder farms.
Meanwhile, climate changes and expanding land use in horticulture have increased the pressure on water resources.
ADEs are threatened by expanding land exploitation and there is a need to develop efficient approaches to soil mapping and analysis for documenting these soils.
In general from 2006 to 2012, the total area of construction land, forest, and the 'other's category increased, while the total area of farmland, orchard, water, grassland, and tidal marsh decreased, with construction land as the most rapidly expanding land use type.
"Forget climate change, expanding land developments, or ongoing impacts from the fossil fuel industry," McEnaney said in a statement.
According to Shan de Silva, an Oregon State University professor studying the volcano, the 43 mile-wide disc of expanding land around Uturuncu is "one of the fastest uplifting volcanic areas on Earth".
