Sentence examples for infrastructure and settlements from inspiring English sources

The approach should be to upgrade existing infrastructure and settlements through urban renewal.

The report, the first update on impacts in seven years, finds there is "high confidence" that climate change is causing "increased frequency and intensity of flood damage to infrastructure and settlements in Australia and New Zealand".

But, according to the new study, 63% of sites that could be analysed had experienced an increase in human pressures including encroaching roads, agriculture, infrastructure and settlements since 1993.

"We may need to consider contingency plans … such as movement of infrastructure and settlements away from vulnerable areas". Preserving water supply in the Southwest, which will inevitably become more arid, will also be crucial, he added.

Crop yields have been damaged, and the impact of an increase in extreme events has resulted in "alteration of ecosystems, disruption of food production and water supply, damage to infrastructure and settlements, increases in morbidity and mortality, and consequences for mental health and human well-being".

Using small geographic units is superior to circular methods as this approach allows for more flexible markets that align to real infrastructure and settlement patterns.

Worldwide, between 35 and 50% of all pristine mangrove forests have been lost to human activity such as irrigation and dams, overharvesting, clearing for agricultural land, infrastructure and settlement (Oswell 2015).

Basic infrastructure and settlement development: Benefiting some 900,000 people in 205 vulnerable communities, UNICEF will strengthen capacities of local administrations to provide basic services, improve infrastructure, promote participation and meet the needs of the population, including returnee and host groups.

Even before construction of the barrier was under way, the United Nations estimated that Israeli barriers, infrastructure projects and settlements had created 50 disconnected Palestinian pockets in the West Bank.

The built-up area almost doubled from 1999 to 2011 and is expected to grow at a similar or even higher rate, hence increasing pressure on the city administration in terms of managing infrastructure and squatter settlements.

Although lava flows are most likely to be contained within the caldera that encompasses the National Park, they would still present a hazard to the tourism infrastructure and illegal settlements present within the Park.