America is a land rooted in the ideas of a free society: the freedom to be who you are, to speak your mind and to innovate.
There are vigorous flows of money from cities to the countryside in developing countries, but in wealthier lands roots seem more easily forgotten.
Required input parameters are land use, soil (root zone available water capacity (root zone available water capacity, RZAWC)), slope, riparian buffer strips, and distance to surface waters (Table 1, Figure 3a).
It serves to connect you to the land like roots.
While China's recent economic boom has accelerated the pollution spewing across the land, the roots of its environmental problem stretch back centuries.
In Sudan the result was to create a durable sense of land rights rooted in tribal identity that favored the sedentary at the expense of the nomad, or, in the crude shorthand of today, African and Arab.
The inheritance from the socialist planned economy, including the bureaucratic administrative system, limited and inefficient negotiations between government departments, and a limited and unstable supply of land that rooted in the land marketization reform, has significantly influenced the provision of subsidized housing as well as its livability.
In her mid- to late-20s, she had what she describes as a "reawakening," exploring indigenous, land-based roots in her own religion and culture.
Devotion to the land is rooted deeper in the soul than religion, and tribes in this country -- no matter their creed or enmities -- unite against a common outside enemy.
From our mechanistic studies of ecology and economics, we suggest that for grazing lands the root cause of this failure is a powerful economic deterrent to measures designed to protect diversity.
