Sentence examples for intensive settlement from inspiring English sources

This paper provides data and analysis from an intensive settlement survey in the southwestern Titicaca Basin.

To the east are the Gippsland Plains, intensive settlement of which has destroyed much of the original forest cover.

Intensive settlement of the plains has long since led to the clearance of the trees to make way for cultivation.

C1 Pressure for Microsoft Accord A federal judge ordered Microsoft and the government to begin a new round of intensive settlement negotiations to resolve the long-running antitrust case.

The natural vegetation of deciduous forest and steppe has been almost wholly cleared for agriculture since intensive settlement began in the 17th century and now survives only as occasional oak groves along the rivers.

Lithuania escaped such intensive settlement, partly because Soviet leaders thought it less likely to be troublesome and so allowed it more control over its own affairs.Relations between the national and the Russian-speaking communities are remarkably peaceable in both Estonia and Latvia nowadays, all things considered, but they do remain distinct communities.

As holder of the latter portfolio, he continued his earlier policy of promoting intensive Israeli settlement in the occupied territories.

The most immediate threat to dryland areas is desertification -- the thinning out of vegetation -- brought on by intensive human settlement of lands prone to drought.

An eco-city is an eco-sustainable, balanced and intensive human settlement, and the method selected to evaluate an eco-city is an important determinant of the accuracy of the evaluation.

As these resources are point resources (exploited usually far from areas of intensive human settlement), all spatial elements away from the singular exploitation areas (mines, wells, etc).

Through long periods of human settlement, intensive cultivation, and destruction of forests, Shandong's animal life has suffered drastic decline.