Sentence examples for large-scale clearance from inspiring English sources

Jacobs criticized large-scale clearance operations for destroying the complex social fabric of cities and imposing an inhuman orderliness.

Even some environmentalists, traditional thorns in the flesh of Indonesian governments, like him: Mr Yudhoyono having declared a two-year moratorium on large-scale clearance of the country's rainforests from January 2011.More broadly, Indonesia's global stature is rising.

This research explores the socio-economic, climatic and lithological components of the contemporary erosion problems in the Sorbas area of Almeria, Spain, and devises a mapping schedule to describe the particular risks associated with the large-scale clearance of dispersive soils for arboriculture.

Alongside the large-scale clearance of buildings and land in the post-World War II United States emerged a body of children's "bulldozers books" that reflected and endorsed this work.

Large-scale clearance and conversion of forest lands to agricultural and other land use types, the increased human consumption of various forest products, settlement expansion, and intense grazing, which are mostly linked to the exponentially growing population, are major drivers of this fact.

It was still an integral part of the castle's defences, so in 1830 the Constable of the Tower, the Duke of Wellington, ordered a large-scale clearance of several feet of silt.

Three inner-city mass-housing estates undergoing large scale clearance and demolition were selected for the study.

With concessions covering about 2.6m hectares across Sumatra and Borneo, APP has undertaken large-scale forest clearance to make way for plantations to feed its massive pulp mills.

They have not experienced the same large-scale land clearance and intensive land management as other landscapes across Australia.

In the exhibition at Columbia University, a page of the manual for the Title I program, which provided the federal money for most of Moses' housing projects, warns that "patching up hopelessly worn-out buildings" will only hinder large-scale slum clearance efforts.

Clearly, installations in urban areas on rooftops are nearly completely reversible, but large-scale land clearance for wind farms or PV arrays may take decades or centuries to recover.