Sentence examples for vulnerable landscape from inspiring English sources

According to Lambin, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, there's no question intensive harvesting takes a toll on both people and the environment across an increasingly vulnerable landscape.

Knowledge of the topography prior to human-induced erosion (paleotopography) in naturally stable landscapes is valuable for identifying vulnerable landscape positions and is required as starting point for erosion modelling exercises.

Keeping land in state hands is sometimes the only way to protect vulnerable landscapes, plants and wildlife.

This week, we saw energy correspondent Terry Macalister visit one of Earth's most harsh yet vulnerable landscapes: the Arctic, where warming is occurring at twice the rate of the rest of the planet.

Coastal areas are among the world's most vulnerable landscapes to impacts related to climate change, including inundation from sea-level rise (SLR), increased exposure to shoreline erosion, and greater frequency and intensity of storms.

These vulnerable landscapes possibly contribute invaluable aesthetic, economic and social benefits (Vos and Meekes 1999; Wrbaka et al. 2004) more than the landscapes fragmenting them.

Project Finance for Permanence is one of the greatest innovations of our time to secure permanent funding for our precious and vulnerable landscapes.

Like others, CES are vulnerable to landscape changes and unsustainable use.

Sedentary species with low population sizes, low clutch sizes, large body sizes and insectivorous diets, such as the ground-dwelling Albert's Lyrebird (Menura alberti) and canopy-dwelling Paradise Riflebird (Ptiloris paradiseus), were the most vulnerable to landscape change.

The management of rainforest ecosystems for multi-species conservation must assess the impacts of habitat degradation at different spatial scales as well as determine which species are vulnerable to landscape change.

Haiti's government budget in 2002, he notes, was a quarter of that of the Harvard hospital in which he had trained to become a doctor, and a broader lack of resources created a particularly vulnerable urban landscape.