Sentence examples for island development from inspiring English sources

Yet it involves land use changes that challenge the sustainability of small island development as set out in the United Nations program for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SDIDS).

Here among moss-draped live oaks and unspoiled ponds, a new style of island development based on strict environmental standards is being tested, and developers around the nation are watching to see if it succeeds.

The Turks and Caicos island development went bankrupt, with only a handful of houses built.

Zhankov is working on private island development, including a project the students had spotted on CocoCay.

Both the Russian oil giant Yukos and Shell's Sakhalin Island development were part of forced sales to state companies.

The island development has no investors so far, though Mr. Yakobi believes the project might be two-thirds completed within five years.

No barrier-island development prior to approximately 8200 yr BP is indicated.

Initiation of barrier-island development is most likely due to a slowing in the Holocene sea-level rise ca. 8000 yr BP, coupled with the intersection of the coast with quartz sand deposits formed during Pleistocene sea-level highstands.

The Palm" — a faux-island development in Dubai — "is not right.

But these sources, too, are dwindling: donor nations' development aid to island nations decreased from a high of US$2.3 billion in 1995 to US$1.7 billion in 2005, according to the UN Small Island Development Unit.

Its other Long Island development, Avalon Commons in Smithtown, also open a year, has 312 units.