Lastly, we find that changes in relative prices, infrastructure improvement, and topography are all significantly related to changing land-cover patterns.
Increasing numbers of tourists, relative service infrastructures, such as, shops, restaurants, and hotels, and in addition, insufficient management measures, result in the decline of water quality.
The supply-side effects may also be considerable; declining public investment has led to a shrinking stock of infrastructure relative to GDP (see charts).
Despite the transformation, Bhutan remains largely unspoiled and the relative lack of infrastructure — mainly traffic — means the country is a gem for outdoor activities like cycling, though few locals are wealthy enough to pursue it themselves.
The city-state's efficient infrastructure, relative safety and low taxes have attracted many of the world's wealthy.
The fact that serving ads when misspellings occur is the company's business model seems insane to me relative to the infrastructure investments they must have made.
Though many U.S. tech companies, including Google and Facebook, have been blocked from gaining a footprint in China thanks to government regulations and censorship, the Chinese cloud computing market presents a viable opportunity thanks to a relative lack of infrastructure.
These choices along with other regulatory decisions about who can obtain LCFS credits will influence the incentives for providing electricity and charging infrastructure relative to other low-carbon fuels as well as across different electricity providers.
Remoteness of an area and relative access to infrastructure are also not included in the information used to construct SEIFA codes [ 16].
[ 1] However, there is little information on the sustainability of the impacts of such systems, or of the impact of such systems in remote settings where poor socio-economic and environmental conditions and relative lack of infrastructure impose particular challenges.
