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These can be extremely devastating where they enter inhabited areas, killing large numbers of people (McLean Johnes 2002) even where their paths are utterly rural they can damage infrastructure and devastate terrestrial and aquatic lloru and fauna (Siddlc et al. 1006)... 

A breakdown of rural communities has taken place in the Nordic region. In Finland, for example, in their TOO-hectare loneliness , the remaining farm families now run their mechanised farms in an industrial mode. As recently as 20 years ago, there were rural communities with an average farm size of 10 ha. With fewer farms and a reduced rural population, there is loss of infrastructure and services for those who remain, further accelerating the move to urban areas. The overall situation adds external cost to the farming and food sectors, but often the cost is borne by society in the form of subsidies from the federal government or the EU, or they are passed on to future generations. 

Rural areas in developing and developed countries, without the necessary grid infrastructure, are a characteristic example of applications with a high potential for the development of autonomous power systems. Taking into account the strong correlation between the economic development in these areas and their electrification, the importance of powering them is evident. Other application fields include holiday houses, physical islands and remote telecommunication and industrial installations. 

The hazards posed by urban environmental contaminants are not, of course, the only ones posed to ecological and human health. Climate change, access to health care, the provision and maintenance of sanitary and other infrastructure, and numerous other economic and political factors variously impact on ecological and human health in cities. By some measures, and in some locations, urbanites enjoy better health and well-being than their rural counterparts, a difference thought to be due to socioeconomic factors, and access to health care and other social institutions (Perdue et al., 2003). Pohcies to address urban environmental health may be debated within a benefit-risk framework that considers the multiplicity of economic, social and environmental factors that interact and underhe health and well-being. 

Urbanization is typically associated with such disruptions. Population migration from a rural to an urban environment can have serious health consequences because of a general lack of infrastructure, poor sanitation, and crowded living conditions. Additionally, these populations may also lack access to health care (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2003). 

The higgest hurdle that must be overcome before wind power can become a significant electricity producer in the United States is construction of the transmission infrastructure—the power lines needed to move the electricity from the rural areas to the cities where most of the power is used. For example, the hundreds of turbines planned in southwest Minnesota in a development called Buffalo Ridge could supply enough electricity to power 1 million homes if transmission problems can be solved. 

Korea Agriculture Rural Infrastructure Corporation, Ansan 426-160, Korea. 

Route Data—information regarding the route and ineludes eonditions of the infrastructure (e.g., road and rail condition and speed restrietions), specific segments of the route identified for analysis (including meteorological conditions), and the location of sensitive receptors along the route (e.g., urban and rural population densities, environmental crossings)... 

MOREHyS is used separately for each country. A country is divided into areas, and all capacities and demand are described at this level. Hydrogen demand areas are defined on the basis of NUTS areas. Due to computing limitations, areas with similar indicators are merged. In total, 20-26 regions are distinguished per country and a distinction is made between urban and rural regions. Both types play an important role in the build-up of a hydrogen infrastructure. 

Social welfare costs for displaced woikers — farmers who leave the land because they do not have the scale advantage of large corporate farms to purchase their inputs directly from large suppliers at a discount — and for the rural communities which depend upon revenue from these farmers and can no longer support their infrastructures ... 

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