Furthermore, oil palm plantations, especially large-scale estates, have frequently been associated with negative social impacts on rural communities and indigenous people (Telapak 2000; Marti 2008; Sirait 2009; Friends of the Earth Europe (FoE) (FoE) 2010).
Spinola said she frequently gets enquiries from people from India looking to purchase Tuscan farmhouses and Chinese looking for large-scale estates to produce large quantities of wine that they will ship back to their homeland.
After breaking away from the international Fairtrade Labeling Organization (now Fairtrade International), FTUSA announced its rogue Fair Trade for All initiative opening up the model to certify independent smallholders and large-scale "estates" (aka plantations) as fair trade.
The first of the four large-scale estates built by the Artizans Company was Shaftesbury Park, a development of 1,200 two-storey houses covering 42.5 acre built in 1872 on the site of a former pig farm in Battersea.
If the upper-income groups want to do better by themselves, they will have to find a means of assembling large parcels of land and of designing their homes not as single buildings but as units in a large-scale estate, comparable in size and in freedom from through traffic to those erected by the Housing Authority.
Generously designed broad green open spaces belong to the most characteristic features of the large scale socialist housing estates in Slovakia, designed and built in the second half of the 20th century.
However, the concept of large scale socialist housing estates and their broad green open spaces had its failings and shortcomings, too, manifested mainly by the deficiencies in maintenance, loss of control, or safety.
I think the more difficult question is when the river becomes effectively integrated into more large-scale land and real estate speculation and at that point.
As with the defense industry and the financial industry, success on a large scale in real estate often depends on government connections.
The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.
Three inner-city mass-housing estates undergoing large scale clearance and demolition were selected for the study.
