The storm's impact on land has been less severe than initially thought, but it still knocked down trees, flooded streets, and battered buildings, before rapidly losing power in the mountains that rise up along the Pacific coast.
"He saw maps as the way we document man's impact on the land".
In the past, that word has mainly referred to the industry's impact on the land, which organic farmers insisted could not indefinitely endure the reductionist approach of industrial agriculture -- treating the land as a factory, into which you put certain kinds of chemicals (pesticides, fertilizers) in order to take out others (starches, proteins, flavonoid phenols).
Locals can also tell you about eccentric neighbors who can impact your land's value with behaviors such as allowing trash to accumulate on their property.
As agriculture occupies close to 40% of the world's land area, its impact on environmental resources is considerable.
This section provides a case study of Living Land's work in the Baviaanskloof, the impact this has had, and the combined learning and insights of Living Lands and Commonland.
It would not be hard to imagine the impact on the land's ecosystems if humans mostly hunted wolves, and other predators for food at the top of the food chain.
With as much as two thirds of the world's terrestrial land area impacted by human activities [59] gradient flattening is likely widespread, but its corresponding impacts on adaptive diversity and implications for conservation in a changing world are not fully recognized.
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lays out a process to determine a land transferal's potential impact on the environment, archaeological and historic sites, and places sacred to Native Americans.
Depending on the duration of boma use and the severity of the livestock's impacts on surrounding land, negative effects of a boma may persist for years, possibly even decades, after it is abandoned.
