"settlement structure" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used in political or legal contexts to refer to the framework of a negotiation, compromise, or other agreement. For example, "The two countries agreed on a settlement structure to resolve the dispute."
The reconstructed transformations in the composition of plant remains and settlement structure signal not a mere transitional change, but a 'longue durée' structural transformation of the landscape.
He built a monolithic trading, clearing and settlement structure, despite its unpopularity with some regulators.
In order to estimate input parameters, an overview of railway network and settlement structure of Austria is empirically derived.
Accordingly HSR has stipulated a lot of research, but only recently HSR's impacts on settlement structure and transport regimes have been studied in depth.
These treatments were designed to simultaneously reduce high-severity fire risk while returning forests to conditions more representative of pre-European settlement structure and function.
The results of the small-scale, but also comprehensive regional analysis allow for a detailed discussion of effects of policy changes on the settlement structure.
But it has separately promised the Bush administration that it would build only within existing settlement structures to account for natural growth, "thickening" the settlements but not expanding them physically.
Considering suburbanisation as a global phenomenon, we develop a monitoring approach, which allows for a quantitative and qualitative assessment within suburban settlement structures.
Therefore, monitoring approaches with a regional perspective become more and more relevant, as polycentric, suburban settlement structures constitute the spatial but also institutional context of urban containment policies.
We compare those data sets with test results from pedestrian survey to assess the applicability of LiDAR for detecting small settlement structures and compounds in areas of highly disturbed vegetation.
The analysis builds upon a case study in the alpine Austrian state of Tyrol where an intense regional rise of average temperatures occurs, going along with increased risks of natural mountain hazards and exposed settlement structures.
