This is particularly true in the basin-and-range type of areas of parts of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the western United States, Chile and Peru, Sinai and western Arabia, and Central Asia, where the basic landscape configuration consists of mountains set against adjacent basins.
Further research is needed to establish what type of areas in schools are well used and attractive to students for passive recreation where shade sails might be built.
A quota system was devised to ensure that a broad, nationally representative cross section of households of different composition and type of areas (type/size of home town: rural/small town/medium-sized city/large city/Paris area) were recruited into the study.
"It's a very hippyish, counter-culture type of area with lots of arts shops," she said.
They have failed to offer a distinctive, progressive vision of a positive future for this type of area.
"It's not really the type of area where you can wander around," he said.
County Antrim, where I grew up, was a Protestant area, but it wasn't a "Kick the Pope" type of area.
Sintra, however, "is a reasonably wealthy, upper-middle-class to high-class type of area," said Paul Houston, a managing partner at Lucas Fox Portugal, a real estate company.
Some problems are important for one type of area but less so for another; for example, the highest levels of TB are seen in urban areas such as London, Leicester and Slough, and the lower levels in more rural areas.
Per Heggenes, the CEO of the Ikea Foundation, which has formed a strategic partnership with the UNHCR, believes this is exactly the type of area in which philanthropy can make a practical difference.
Regardless of the type of area, dog walking led to a 35percentt reduction in the number of bird species and a 41percentt reduction in overall bird numbers, compared with the control.
