And, as Prime Minister David Cameron's effort to redefine his land's relationship with the European Union seemed to show, the nation still harbors old ambitions to mold events in the vast Continent separated from it by a narrow band of sometimes fog-bound water and by large dollops of mutual incomprehension.
Along with its sci-fi name, Ultra-Ex advances a forward-looking mission: to document the ecological benefits that vacant lots might provide and to redefine the land, from neighborhood blight to community asset.
With co-financing from REDD to offset opportunity costs of foregone (or restricted) development, results from the above can be used to redefine acceptable land-use practices within priority areas needed to fill biodiversity conservation gaps.
In the greenswards of Connecticut, the new governor, M. Jodi Rell, is starting from scratch after John G. Rowland, whom you could imagine presiding over a backyard barbecue in an apron reading "The Guv," helped redefine the state from the land of steady habits to Louisiana with foliage.
Councilors were voting on whether to redefine agriculturally designated land off U.S. Highway 258 for manufacturing. .
The West was built on transplants, on men and women who sought to redefine themselves in a land of opportunity.
But with a rapacious sleight-of-hand, the relevant rule was reworded overnight: "open land" was redefined, and the promised 166 acres for public use shrivelled to a scandalous 32.
Under the RFFP, state authorities have redefined large areas of land as afforestation area intended to provide environmental services including erosion control, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity regeneration.
The aim of the inquiry is to provide new bases for reframing the problem of low-income unauthorised settlements and redefining practices of land-use regulation in the Global South.
The Garrison Institute, founded in 2003, sits across the river from an important site in American environmental history, Storm King Mountain, where more than 40 years ago an epic battle over land use helped redefine environmental activism and law.
