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Page 121
... land paral- leled the increasing commercialization of the economy . A healthy tax base required that land be brought under cultivation . Because more than one - quarter of the total cultivated land had slipped off the tax rolls in the ...
... land paral- leled the increasing commercialization of the economy . A healthy tax base required that land be brought under cultivation . Because more than one - quarter of the total cultivated land had slipped off the tax rolls in the ...
Page 458
... land surface , daytime solar radiation heats the land surface more than the water surface . The higher - temperature land surface in turn transfers more heat to its overlying air mass and in so doing induces a circulation cell much like ...
... land surface , daytime solar radiation heats the land surface more than the water surface . The higher - temperature land surface in turn transfers more heat to its overlying air mass and in so doing induces a circulation cell much like ...
Page 684
... land and resource use have impor- tant consequences for the future . If extensive areas of the Earth are badly damaged or their productivity destroyed by the expansion of technological civilization , they will be difficult , if not ...
... land and resource use have impor- tant consequences for the future . If extensive areas of the Earth are badly damaged or their productivity destroyed by the expansion of technological civilization , they will be difficult , if not ...
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