Sentence examples for foregone development from inspiring English sources

As expected, policies that offer more flexibility in the decision-making process are less costly in terms of foregone development.

That is, do the private, financial benefits of ecotourism-controlled forest exceed the opportunity cost of foregone development of the forest?

We contrast these land values with the likely foregone development or opportunity costs from alternative uses, including agriculture, cattle ranching, timber extraction, or Brazil nut harvesting.

With co-financing from REDD to offset opportunity costs of foregone (or restricted) development, results from the above can be used to redefine acceptable land-use practices within priority areas needed to fill biodiversity conservation gaps.

An excellent return still isn't a foregone conclusion for shareholders willing to shoulder all of that discovery and development risk.

The classical Sanskrit drama was heroic comedy high poetry, noble action, themes almost always taken from the myths a serious, religiously conceived drama, yet in the "comic" pattern, which is not a complete organic development reaching a foregone, inevitable conclusion, but is episodic, restoring a lost balance, and implying a new future.

Sweeping tar sands oil development is not a foregone conclusion.

The benefit, which has been used primarily for luxury development, cost the city $408 million in foregone tax revenue in 2006, according to the city's finance department, and a projected $930 million in 2011, the Independent Budget Office said.

Our methodology can be applied toward cost-effective renewable energy development that minimises opportunity cost in terms of foregone ES provisioning.

The development of close ties between Russia and China is not a foregone conclusion.

"I think it's a foregone conclusion that it's going to be an anchor for more development, not only in Lisbon but in neighboring Griswold and Jewett City," Mr. Sparkman said.