As a result, Indonesia's government has made it illegal to clear land in this way.
ECONOMIST: Will the neighbours ever dare to penalise the polluters?
For centuries, the forest dwellers of Sumatra and Borneo have been slashing and burning to clear land to grow crops.
ECONOMIST: Will the neighbours ever dare to penalise the polluters?
With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested.
Earlier, MGI research found that product market regulations, the lack of clear land titles and pervasive governmental ownership were preventing India from achieving 10 percent annual GDP growth.
The smog arrives around this time every year, as loggers and farmers on Indonesia's island of Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo take advantage of the dry season to clear land by burning trees and scrub.
ECONOMIST: Will the neighbours ever dare to penalise the polluters?
The council cabinet met on Thursday, the day after the deadline, and decided to take "direct action to clear the land" if the travellers did not leave voluntarily.
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The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has warned that conditions are "clearly unsuitable" for controlled burning, which is used to clear areas of land.
People should have clear title to their land and houses, and they should be able to buy and sell them without encumbrance.
Since very little Haitian land has clear title, much of the area around Port-au-Prince is now occupied by squatters who resist eviction.
The oil money is going to come in handy in the Conservancy's efforts to protect land from clear-cutting, strip malls and other heavy development.
Some grain analysts say U.S. farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres this year to bring supplies back to more comfortable levels, but it is far from clear where so much land would come from.
For months, a unit led by Captain Dan Kearney holds an outpost high in the Korengal Valley that gives the soldiers a clear view of the land below, but the impression of force exerted without purpose is overwhelming.
As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
Lack of clear-cut policies on land acquisition and a multiplicity of authorities and bureaucratic hurdles often lead to delays in the implementation of industrial and infrastructure projects in India, creating an obstacle to economic growth.
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Luo Liang (played by a young man of the same name) is the driver and bagman for a big-time developer, Boss Peng (Peng Deming), who turns to strong-arm tactics when his attempts at bribery fail to clear restive peasants from their land.
So I think what's clear here, again, is that we are -- hold on, we are about to land -- what's clear here, again, is that we're focusing so much on an ad that has not run yet, that is done by an outside group.
"Most of these seeds are headed to the same land that I helped clear, " Sena says.
Others have to land at Narita, clear customs and then fly to Haneda.
That agreement, he said, makes clear the vast majority of the land was to be a campus, not a commercial development.
In early August Chesapeake unilaterally voided the Continental lease, on grounds that Continental didn't have clear rights to enough of the land.
At that time, he was lowered by helicopter to the roof of the World Trade Center to help clear an area for helicopters to land, Andersen said.
It's not clear whether Diageo wooed CIC to land this investment, but the company has gone out of its way to ramp up Chinese activities over the past few years.
But now it is clear that not all polar bears return to land.
The owners of Paddy's Bar and the Sari Club have not made it clear what they want to see on their land.
One clear way to start this process is through land-use policy.
We had clear title to 480 acres of good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River not far from Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas.
It wasn't clear how we were going to reach the Promised Land.
It is clear that Mr Mugabe's idea of legal land redistribution is exactly what he has been inflicting on the country for the past 18 months.
"The fact that the banks and commercial capital markets are meeting Jaguar Land Rover's funding is a clear sign of confidence in the company, its products and the automotive sector, " said U.K. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who played a key role in the negotiations with Jaguar Land Rover.
The House of Lords, the highest court in the land, said the law was not as clear and precise as it should be.
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