Sentence examples for land reduce from inspiring English sources

This so-called "in-fill" development is central to the smart growth philosophy, a sort of back-to-the-future approach that aims to conserve land, reduce reliance on automobiles, create affordable housing and stimulate job growth.

Plasticulture represents a multibillion dollar facet of the United States crop production value annually and must become more efficient to be able to produce more on less land, reduce water demands, decrease impacts on surrounding environments, and be economically-competitive.

Oil spills -- small, so far -- that pollute water and land, reduce the fishermen's catch and may be a factor in recent whale deaths.

These falsely colourised pictures are a land reducing its own history to a hollow patriotic fiction.

All that is left is a huge swath of flat land, reduced to rubble by the tsunami that struck on the afternoon of 11 March.

Their main effect will be to force small corn-and-bean farmers off the land, reducing food security and increasing economic migration-both to the urban slums and to the United States.

The Spano campaign wants voters to know that during his tenure Mr. Spano acquired 2,500 acres of park land, reduced county taxes and tried to combat the "digital divide" by providing computers to needy students and the Westchester Library System.

Every increase in the property tax rates on structures (not land) reduces the desirability of putting capital funds into new buildings, creates an incentive against upgrading quality by new construction, and discourages maintenance.

Docking in Whittier, instead of the more established Seward (pop.:4,000), shaves 115 nautical miles off the cruise and 75 miles on land, reducing fuel costs and wear and tear on motor coaches, as well as on passengers.

The main causes of reducing the number of population above second hypsometric zone are mainly shortage of arable land, reducing the proportion of people due to the lack of essential services, very low degree of public capital investment.

Particularly, as the intensity of the soil degradation was severe under the cultivated land, reducing the intensity of cultivation, and adopting integrated soil fertility management could rehabilitate the existing soil conditions.