Burundi is described as a land prone to outbursts: storms, sudden earthquakes and treacly lava flows.
The most immediate threat to dryland areas is desertification -- the thinning out of vegetation -- brought on by intensive human settlement of lands prone to drought.
Not only would it provide children with an alternative to their original primary school – which was built on reclaimed land prone to flooding – but it would act as a community meeting place.
Instead of allowing the silt to settle where it wants, Bangladesh has begun to channel it to where it is needed — to fill in shallow soup bowls of land prone to flooding, or to create new land off its long, exposed coast.
About a dozen dancers from Britain joined in the show, although some who auditioned changed their minds after attempting the Human Fountain, a piece inspired by the fountains at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas that entails diving off a platform three stories high and landing prone.
Forbes even tosses in what can kindly be called "foreign intrigue" (it will be interesting to see whether the reviewers who've gotten hot and bothered about the wickedly funny, politically incorrect jape that ends Muriel Spark's "Aiding and Abetting" will take issue with Forbes's portrayal of India as a dark, backward land prone to sudden outbreaks of political violence that threatens Westerners).
As a consequence of increased exposure of land through removal of natural vegetation cover, the proportion of land prone to soil erosion increased.
It was another seismic event in a land prone to frequent tectonic convulsion, notwithstanding the length and intensity of it.
Until the mid-17th century, it was undeveloped low-lying, swampy land prone to flooding by the Spree.
While the flooding is indiscriminate in who it affects — India's financial capital, Mumbai, has been seriously hit — it's the poor who are typically worst affected, as they often live on cheap, overcrowded land prone to flooding or landslides.
Battersea, listed as Patricesy (St Peter's Water) in the Domesday Book and first mentioned in records of 693 AD, on the south bank of the river opposite Chelsea, was by contrast low and marshy land, prone to flooding.
