Sentence examples for knowledge of land from inspiring English sources

D1 OBITUARIES A37 Kingsbury Browne A prominent Boston tax lawyer and outdoorsman whose initiative and knowledge of land trusts spared large and small swaths of the American landscape from headlong development, he was 82.

As Edith Durham, a noted authority on the Balkans, bitchily put it at the time, "The novelist Miss West has written an immense book on the strength of one pleasure trip to Yugoslavia, but with no previous knowledge of land or people".

And in that process the lead fell to Mr. Babbitt, the former Arizona governor, trained geologist, one-time presidential candidate, finalist for a spot on the Supreme Court, and member of a prominent ranching family who used his plain-spoken manner and longtime knowledge of land issues to prod Mr. Clinton toward an aggressive course.

Knowledge of land cover dynamics and driving forces is a fundamental tool for landscape planning and management.

To extract patch-derived indices, an image segmentation method based on edge detection was used to define patches without an a priori knowledge of land cover classes.

Thus, herders gauge knowledge of land degradation in terms of production performances of livestock, and these are invariably related to the status of the soils and key forage plant species.

Under the influence of 1940s foreign editor David Astor the Observer had begun to specialise in foreign news, facilitated by an expanding network of overseas correspondents and London-based diplomatic writers with "specialised knowledge of lands from which news is hard to obtain, such as the USSR and Spain".

Investigating the ecological consequences of urbanization require knowledge of land-cover dynamics.

Soil moisture is widely recognized as an important land surface variable that provides a deeper knowledge of land-atmosphere interactions and climate change.

EEZs use knowledge of the land (e.g., soil fertility, slope, available natural resources), of existing economic uses, and of population centers, market demand, transport infrastructure, PAs, and so forth to produce landscape-scale maps with recommended land-use patterns.

Nevertheless, there has not been a transfer of that knowledge to land managers of these spaces or, at least, to those who design improvement and restoration measures.