Sentence examples for mitigation of land from inspiring English sources

Results may inform thematic strategies for the mitigation of land and soil degradation in the framework of action plans to combat desertification.

Addressing the global challenges of climate change (CC), food security and poverty alleviation requires enhancing the adaptive capacity and mitigation potential of land use systems.

Such empirical results can be used by geologists and engineers for avoidance and mitigation measures of land use on debris fans.

Prompt mitigation of adverse land change requires close monitoring by land use planners.

In 2000, campaigners mounted legal action to preserve an area of grassland created on the route of the old A33 Winchester bypass in mitigation of the land lost to the motorway which was threatened by a Park and Ride site.

These results illustrated aggregate warming effects of clustered paved surfaces, and provide insights on UHI mitigation for land managers and urban planners.

Two scales of the LDI index were calculated: wetland assessment area scale LDI index (n = 58), which characterizes the landscape surrounding a small parcel of land within a mitigation bank boundary, and mitigation bank scale LDI index (n = 26), which characterizes the lands surrounding the entire boundary of the wetland mitigation bank.

The landscape development intensity (LDI) index, which can be used as a human disturbance gradient, is an effective tool in assessing location of wetland mitigation banks where large tracts of land are managed to protect wetland function by offsetting wetland losses from off-site land development.

It also prevents national and European institutions from taking measures aimed at an effective mitigation of the rapidly advancing land degradation.

The mitigation of potential health hazards and land scarcity due to land use change can be addressed by restoring functional and ecosystem services of contaminated land.

We develop an attribute-based contingent valuation approach that allows us to perform cost-benefit analysis on control programs and inform the distribution of mitigation effort over land units that provide different types of environmental services.