(a) Causes of depletion of energy sources. Increasing pressure on agricultural land due to a growing world population has led to encroachment on forest reserves.

The wall's encroachment on Palestinian land and interests creates great hardships for the Palestinian people affected by its construction and exacerbates the situation by placing populations, agricultural land and a part of the West Bank aquifer beyond their reach.

That, in turn, implies less human encroachment into natural ecosystems, enabling greater biodiversity.

No one could object to the construction of the wall in areas coinciding with the Green Line, but its encroachment on Palestinian land and interests brought great hardship for the people and exacerbated the situation.

Forests have deteriorated, due to illegal harvesting and encroachment for agriculture and settlement.13

Alarmed by European encroachment in China, Britain also feared for the security of Hong Kong.

Gansu s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert.

The Chinese Government and people strongly condemn and firmly oppose such a gross encroachment on China's internal affairs.

Women have led the way to protest corporate encroachment on the rain forest and its life sustaining, planet sustaining environment.

Nevertheless, fiscal rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many quarters as an illegitimate encroachment on member states sovereignty.

From the current French viewpoint, however, laws and regulations based on ethnicity are regarded as an unwelcome encroachment on the Republican ideal.

Encroachment on their lands and their displacement from lands should not be resorted to in the name of development projects or perceived security considerations.

Nigeria had embarked on an ambitious project to check and reverse the rate of desert encroachment and ensure the sustainable management of forest resources.

At the height of America s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union s former sphere of influence.

Diminished biodiversity, due to habitat encroachment, fragmentation and pesticide misuse, also leads farmers to rely on greenhouse gas generating chemical inputs to increase their yields.

The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

Encroachment by the Council on issues that fall within the purview of other organs of the United Nations, particularly the General Assembly, has regrettably become commonplace.

Declining rainfall contributed directly or indirectly to crop failures, the encroachment of the desert into pasturelands, the decline of water and grassland for livestock, and massive deforestation.

German rule Namibia became a German colony in 1884 under Otto von Bismarck to forestall British encroachment and was known as German South West Africa ( Deutsch Südwestafrika ).

Energy Infrastructure The RapidEye constellation can monitor pipeline and transmission corridors and identify problems on the ground such as vegetation encroachment, nearby buildings, development of roads or leaks.

Keynes demonstrated that the main cause of bouts of heavy and prolonged unemployment was not worker encroachment on profits, but the fluctuating prospects of private investment in an uncertain world.

Grassland to forested land Cropland to forested land Wetland to forested land Settlement to forested land.

At the same time, Romania s experience demonstrates that official secrecy remains a threat to the core values of democratic governance, and that only constant vigilance, in both established and young democracies, can prevent its encroachment.

Land use, land use change and forestry

Take away land speculation, price of land drops.

Land use, land use change and forestry 3

Environmental protection and land management Farm or undeveloped land composes the majority of land in most countries.

Even in Turkey, a non Arab Muslim country with strong aspirations to reconcile Islam with democracy, the agreement between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s Islamist government and the urban middle class to limit official encroachment on secular lifestyles is unraveling.

Because of the potential for significant social harassment and human rights violations as well as encroachment on long established procedural rights, persons unduly affected by such measure should be able to challenge them judicially and on an expedited or priority basis.

Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

The land of knowledge, land of peace Tarai, Pahad, Himal

Peasants and land owners had to sign land use contract, according to which land rent was a mandatory article.

The land

Land titles

On land

The series of land forms led to the ownership of two thirds land in the South Vietnam to the wealthy land owners.

In Latin America, current land distribution programmes are based on land banks or land market schemes that operate on the principle of purchasing of land, necessitating the availability of sufficient cash resources.

The land categories shall be consistent with those defined in chapter 2 (Basis for consistent representation of land areas) of the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry.

Obama s Promised Land

Cambodia land issues

Land and housing

III. On land

Land border security

Its land titling was fragmented, the laws governing land acquisition were archaic, and the process of rezoning land for industrial use was non transparent.