Sentence examples for geography environment from inspiring English sources

Tikal, Angkor and Anuradhapura (which foundered in the 10th century after thriving for more than a millennium) were very different cities in their geography, environment and social and political functioning.

Welcome to another lecture by Warwick Murray, a British-born associate professor of human geography at the Victoria University of Wellington's school of geography, environment and earth sciences, in New Zealand, whose guitar-strumming prowess recently saw him honoured with one of his adopted country's most prestigious teaching awards.

Achieving results with the incubator model of innovation depends on geography, environment and access to informed industry resources.

The impact of water-conservation traits on lentil productivity is likely to vary across growing seasons with geography, environment type, and level of expression of the trait.

Since that time, a broad range of either natural as well as man made factors (e.g., geography, environment, culture and directional artificial selection) has led to diversity in cattle: Today we know more than 800 cattle breeds across the world.

Jiaguo Qi (JQ) is a Professor of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences and Director of the Center for Global Change & Earth Observations at Michigan State University.

"Oil from shallow waters peaked in the 1990s," said Cutler Cleveland, a professor of geography and environment at Boston University.

Let me state at the outset that I am among those who believe that no political issue today matters more than the changes to our climate, geography and environment.

The islands' unique geography and environment support "many species not recorded anywhere else in the Northern Territory (or in the world), as well as a number of range restricted species", the NT government says.

Jared Diamond (in "Guns, Germs, and Steel") sees geography and environment as the primary influences on the development of Western technology and power; David S. Landes (in "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations") argues that differences in cultural values and social organization made the difference.

Jared Diamond tells these and other stories in "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?" Diamond is a geographer at U.C.L.A. whose earlier books "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse" became best sellers, offering sweeping — and brilliant — descriptions of how geography and environment shape the destiny of nations.