For Bangkok, projections of damage costs double from land use patterns alone.

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Restarting them require approvals from separate government bodies to ensure they comply with environment laws and land use patterns, which could be a drawn-out process.

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If the Department of the Environment's estimate that, under current land-use patterns, 169, 400 hectares will go from rural to urban use by 2016 is correct, the proportion of England that is considered urban would increase 1.3 percentage points, to 11.9%.

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Land use and development patterns can play a positive role, as well.

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The exhibition, organized in four sections based on patterns of land use: Farms, Pleasure Grounds, Suburbs, and City, is scheduled to run through January 21, 2013.

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The research looked specifically at production farms using open, outdoor fresh water ponds applying current technology, and considered such factors as suitable land use, topographical features, weather patterns and sky conditions available in the contiguous U.S. states.

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What it is, is that because we don't use the latest technologies, a lot of times the holding patterns for planes, how many planes can land safely at the same time, all those things are -- reduce the efficiency of -- the overall system is reduced because we're not using the best technologies available.

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