Cities may, however, also have a positive influence on the environment.

This demonstrates how the developed world has had an indirect influence on the environment and landscape of developing countries.

Brownsville received the theoretical maximum worst score (72) for its level of human influence on the environment.

Tourism and its influence on the environment is clearly of great interest to CPRW, however no recent work has been done on the subject.

For the history of humanity's influence on the environment, and humanity's perspective on this influence, see timeline of the history of environmentalism.

This drought-tolerant perennial plant has favourable influence on the environment and it is used for landscaping and reducing erosion along highways, steep rocky slopes, sand dunes or fragile semiarid ecosystems.

Prof IG Simmons, head of Geography at Durham University and a writer about the human influence on the environment, will give a talk on where he considers the world is heading.

And one of the very important issues in this directive will be addressing sustainability of biofuels, the principles described and ways of guaranteeing that biofuels do not have a negative influence on the environment.

All householders living below the line were to be charged a local drainage rate, and this line still dictates the area of jurisdiction of internal drainage boards, whose annual expenditure is considerable and influence on the environment profound.

Finally, the Convento de Gracia (Convent of Thanks) in San Martín del Castañar, a town near La Alberca, was founded in 1430 by the Franciscan Fathers and had great importance and influence on the environment for centuries.

State Praises Role of Corps A final statement on the project's possible influence on the environment, prepared by the Army Corps in 1999, concluded that any ecological damage from dredging would be "temporary" and that "repopulation of the area (by wildlife) will occur rapidly."

The nut sector is of great social and environmental importance to the European Union, and to the southern countries such as Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal and France, because these countries have many small farms that create a great number of jobs and which also have a considerable and direct influence on the environment.