Sentences with phrase «areas of population growth»

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That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

Urban areas accounted for only 20 % of the nation's population growth for the 12 months ended July 1, 2015, according to the latest Census Bureau estimates.

It's a little early for such a strategy since some of the effects aren't clearly known, but from the research I've seen it looks right now that there are going to be areas of his country that are going to run out of water, and disturbingly those are the same areas we have increased population growth.

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A new study by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace are home to rapid job and population growth — but some local officials and activists say too little is known about what kinds of jobs are being created in the area, and who is benefiting.

The plan designated it as a significant growth area, but the municipality is at least six years behind with construction of a new sewage plant needed for the town's population to grow from 30,000 to 86,000 by 2031.

Present - day society is locked into four positive feedback loops which need to be broken: economic growth which feeds on itself, population growth which feeds on itself, technological change which feeds on itself, and a pattern of income inequality which seems to be self - sustaining and which tends to spur growth in the other three areas.

The corporation predicts that without a new standard increasing the ratio of hens to area, the price of eggs will skyrocket based on current market share, population growth and rising egg consumption.

Our specific areas of interest include growth populations in the following highlighted states.

«Everyone is still getting their feet back under them economically, there's a lot of expansion opportunity while interest rates are still low, so we think in a lot of areas, particularly in New York where we have a big population base, probably we don't know how much more we can grow but there's definitely room for growth,» said Giles.

Much of the job growth has been driven by the New York City region as areas of upstate have seen their populations decline.

Community Board 1's analysis of Census data reveals that the board's area, CD1, has by far the largest population growth of any other area in the city.

«Our results indicate that areas of eastern Texas, Florida, the south - east and mid-Atlantic are areas where rapid population growth, acting in concert with a warming climate, will lead to a significant increase in exposure to heat extremes,» says Jones.

Promising solutions include extending and connecting protected natural areas, deceleration of population growth, decreasing the consumption of meat and energy, cleaner and more efficient production of energy and wood, combating waste and raising awareness of consumers.

In their favoured scenario, they concluded that «ownership of appliances, construction of residential and commercial floor area, roads, railways, fertiliser use, and urbanisation will peak around 2030 with slowing population growth» — as will Chinese CO2 emissions.

The Water Authority relied on a 50 - year water plan it updated every couple of years that was supposed to project the area's need for water against population growth and infrastructure demands.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

Researchers in Hawaii found that guppies released in the 1920s drove down native fish populations, perhaps by competing with them for food and living space, and had likely changed the cycle of nutrients in water: Guppy - rich areas showed increased levels of dissolved nitrogen — from ammonium in fish urine and gill excretions — which, in turn, stimulated algae growth.

With 39 states predicted to experience a water shortage in the next decade, Obama advocates developing a national plan to help areas of high population growth better manage water - related resources.

In the future, due to population growth, and the increase of not only the percentage of Americans living in disaster - prone areas, but also the number of natural disasters, the problem is going to get bigger.

Most of the world's coral reefs are situated in areas with maximum human population growth and therefore impending important expansion of extractive and development - related local pressures.

Professor Schneider continued: «While there have been studies that have assessed urban expansion and urban population growth across large areas, this is the first study of its kind to use empirical maps and datasets for every settlement and population in the 17 - country region.

In my own area of interest, archaeologists now understand that the collapse of classic Mayan civilization around A.D. 800 was caused by a combination of factors, including population growth, intercity competition, warfare, economic disruption, and drought.

Increasing efforts on the northern coasts of the islands and expanding marine - protected areas north to where the penguins are now feeding and breeding could support population growth, the study's authors said.

Besides that, the researchers found that Africa is expected to experience the highest rate of population growth in at - risk areas, driven by its rapid coastal development.

Aditya Joshi, a researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Trust and an author on the paper, says, «Conservation of corridors and forest areas outside of the protected area network is critical for long - term demographic and genetic viability of many endangered species and future growth and recovery of tiger populations.»

With new roads being built and paved through once - inaccessible areas, Peru's Amazonian regions now have some of the country's highest population growth rates.

«In the more urban area, there's population growth there, but it's in the mature part of the city, not associated with growth in CO2,» Mitchell says.

While recent reports say that poaching far exceeds population growth, some conservation groups contend that population growth in some regions compensates for poaching losses in others, despite the fact that each area is populated by a different species of African elephant.

It coincides with the recovering economy, an increase in donations of clothing and household goods to charity, and a trend toward downsizing as U.S. population growth shifts from the suburbs to city centers in many areas.»

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the total population of the metropolitan area of Perth 202 million (2014), it is Australia's fourth largest city, population growth rates higher than the national average statistics.

About one - quarter also reported rising numbers of applications in recent years, perhaps due to media attention, awards, school performance, population growth, and the closing of underperforming schools in the area.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

The strategy proposed by the task force relies on a combination of developing demand, building capacity, and transforming institutions to fill empty seats, increase capacity in existing schools, reopen closed schools, and build new Catholic schools in areas that have seen the greatest growth in the Latino population.

Loving High School in Loving, New Mexico serves a largely Latino, low - income rural population in an area of low economic growth.

Perhaps the population growth of estimated school - aged children — 3,833 — could have been felt in one of the five other districts located within the greater Austin area, including Del Valle, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Leander, Manor or Eanes.

Behind - the - scenes is a story of a district that experienced rapid population growth when the area became a popular relocation site from Baltimore and surrounding areas.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

According to the Project, the proposed I - 77 High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes will support the growing population of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina area and further facilitate growth, allowing for continued economic expansion with businesses moving to the area and promote economic development.

Denver exhibits significant population growth and lots of happy hours — much of which involve local brews from one of the area's many breweries.

According to Susan Bozinovic, a Realtor with Century 21 Town and Country that works out of Michigan, «Population density and growth in income of that population are the most influential variables that determine the cost of real estate in a particular area.»

The growth in population was driven by the increase of technology companies in the area.

Specifically, the company looks to buy and / or build in areas with regional populations of at least 1 million people and with natural or artificial limits to growth, such as local regulations on development and / or geography that puts limits the available supply of residential housing.

Whether you're eyeballing investment properties in one of Zillow's hottest real estate markets or looking at other areas with similar attributes (income, rent and population growth, low unemployment, etc.), market appeal ultimately depends on your personal investing criteria, according to Beasley.

Some cities around the Greater Toronto Area have passed by - laws to prohibit such activities because the influx of people in the communities is so large the social services and infrastructure of the areas can't handle the surging population growth.

«Eighty percent of veterinarians expect chronic care to be a primary growth area in practice, and mobility issues arise with an aging population,» says Dr. Metzger, citing a Pfizer / Iams / VMPG survey.

As the San Francisco Bay Area's population has swelled and the popularity of the beloved redwood grove has grown unabated, the visitation to Muir Woods — an ancient old - growth forest with some of the tallest and oldest living things on the planet — has sky - rocketed.

With a population exceeding 4 million, Selangor is propelled by urban growth and commercialisation, evident in the large numbers of shopping centres, business complexes and industrial areas.

The share of capital and population installed in flood - prone area can be increasing with growth, making disaster consequences (when a disaster occurs) grow more rapidly than wealth.

But to the point of the post, given the calls by some to limit population growth, it seems the rates of carnage and degradation visited upon the people of these areas is a small price to pay for the preservation of «wild» spaces.

Meteorologists point to extreme poverty and huge growth in population — much of it in vulnerable coastal areas with poor construction, including storm shelters that didn't hold up against Haiyan.