Major land uses today, which need to be harmonized with nature conservation, are tourism, commercial and recreational fishing and boating.
The pressure for them to do so is increasing as they shut old smokestack factories and redevelop the land for other uses.
According to anthropologist Parker Shipton, if a Luo sells his land and then uses the proceeds to buy cattle, for instance, the tribe assumes that the cattle will die.
"This product will have a major impact on our carbon budget work, " says Professor Steve Running of the University of Montana, who uses the land cover maps in conjunction with other weekly observations from Modis.
As a result, palm oil uses significantly less land to generate the same amount of usable energy.
Farmers will be freed to move into new kinds of business by a relaxation of the rules on converting outbuildings and land for non-agricultural uses.
Problems arise from conflicts between different uses of coastal land and waters, overexploitation of coastal resources, discharge of wastes and effluents into coastal waters, increasing stress by sea level change and growth of coastal population.
Kirk Flittie, who manages the Global Observer program for AeroVironment, says operating costs are low because the plane doesn't have to take off and land very often and it uses propulsion systems and electronics developed for the company's high-flying solar-powered planes.
Australia uses special courts for land acquisition.
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Land Rover's Range Rover Sport uses anti-sway bars that are engaged only when sensors detect that the vehicle is going through a fast turn.
Olsen Energy has been increasingly focusing on the opportunity to make money by making its land in Belfast available for development for other uses.
If the onerous rules on converting farmland to other uses were waived in Tohoku, land (often wrongly) suspected of being contaminated from the nuclear leak could be turned into fields of money-spinning solar panels.
The land rovers are powered by cooking oil, and the sewage system uses bacteria to do the dirty work.
Unlike previous one-way demonstrations, the LCDD uses an infrared beam -- in the same way that many land-based fiber networks do -- that can be received on Earth by one of three telescopes located in Mexico, California or Spain.
If a legal Russian business uses a criminally owned company to bribe an official in order to land its revenues legally (by Russian standards) in a western bank, how guilty is the banker under, say, English law, for taking the deposit?
Subsidies waste resources because they re-direct land, labor, and capital away from higher-value and toward lower-value uses.
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