Sentences with phrase «as urban populations»

But about 110.6 million people still lacked electricity in 2014, as urban population growth had offset access gains.

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Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Real estate investors liked North Carolina's biggest metropolis for its strong job and population growth, as well as its developed urban center.

Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

As the global population shifts to cities, solving urban problems represents the key to improving the lives of millions.

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

It may also explain why the sample population turned out to be slightly more urban and upscale than the nation as a whole.

Driving the movement, too, is alarm over the explosion of illegitimate births in the urban underclass (now over 80 percent of births), as well as in the general population (around 30 percent of births).

Affirming an urban presence: As populations have shifted away from urban areas, many city churches have closed and the buildings have been turned into restaurants, houses, nightclubs or offices.

Urban churches grew and prospered as a result of that population movement; but the rural ethos continued to be reflected in worship, organization and mission priorities.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

Downtown Miami continues to establish itself as a true global, urban destination, with a population of almost 90,000 residents — a 150 % increase since 2000 and still growing, consisting mostly of young professionals.

Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.

Today's developing world faces just as much pressure to feed a growing urban population with nutritious, often more costly food — with increasing potential for global impact.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Particularly in urban areas, a more culturally diverse population may act as drivers of challenges to old ways of doing things and lead to a more pro-active political culture that seeks to express its own ambitions and agendas and thus challenge — even resist — conventional top - down flows of power, both institutionally and discursively.

As I speak, as of 2015, urban water supply had been taken to a whooping 80 % of the populatioAs I speak, as of 2015, urban water supply had been taken to a whooping 80 % of the populatioas of 2015, urban water supply had been taken to a whooping 80 % of the population.

Poloncarz added, «As I've said many times, our county is actually like a small state with urban, suburban and rural areas and a population that is equal to that of five states.

They tend to be seats with relatively small numbers of constituents in urban areas — that's right; they tend to be Labour seats, where the population has tended to shrink over the years as people sensibly flee areas represented by Labour MPs.

Indeed, the concerns of these two groups are increasingly conjoined, as Britain's young population has become progressively more urban in the past two decades.

And Erie County, as an urban county with a large population of poor people, faces an especially onerous burden.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.

«The urban and historical data are so well - aligned that we can view scale insect populations in cities as a preview of what to expect elsewhere,» Youngsteadt adds.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissUrban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissurban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Learning how to optimize these spaces is an increasingly urgent problem: As of 2008, the urban environment has become simply «the environment» for the majority of the world's population.

The findings underscore the way legal policies — such as the growth of the U.S. prison population from the 1980s — can have a ripple effect in communities, says Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Washington, D.C. — based Urban Institute.

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

While most cases of TB occur in developing countries, it is also reemerging as a threat in major urban populations in Europe, due to the increase in global travel.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

The crops listed in your article championing the urban vertical farm as a «new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities worldwide» are lettuce, spinach, kale, tomatoes, peppers, basil and strawberries (18 January, p 17).

The cohort used in the study was compiled with data that would reflect a true - to - life 10,000 person population among urban, non-monogomous men who have sex with men, who were defined by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as «high - risk.»

China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

The study also found the prevalence of AMD is higher among Chinese Americans as compared to the Chinese population living in urban / rural China, suggesting the influence of environmental or behavioral factors should be considered.

These so - called urban heat islands result from various factors, such as population density, surface sealing, thermal radiation of buildings, industry, and transport as well as lacking vegetation.

But as the world's urban population surges, and more people crowd into rat - plagued slums, the rodents are getting renewed attention from researchers and public health experts.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

In 2007, the United Nations predicted an explosion in urban populations, which it said could be as much as the three - quarters of the world population by 2050, mostly residing in developing countries.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban populations.311, 303

12: Indigenous Peoples for examples of health impacts on vulnerable populations) and of place (floodplains, coastal zones, and urban areas), as well as the resilience of critical public health infrastructure.

Methods used to classify sites as urban or non-urban and the length of ozone data records for monitoring sites are described in this section, along with regional aggregation and population characteristics.

In the 19th Century, as American's urban population grew and the demand for wild meat increased, thousands of men became full - time pigeon hunters.

«Even in an urban environment, proximity to green spaces provides a much richer population of colonizing microbiota versus urbanized environments such as parking lots.»

As the war died down and population moved away from agriculture and into more urban settings, gardening in the backyard became more impractical and began to decline.

The Greater Bendigo municipality is home to around 100,000 while the city has a steadily growing urban population of about 80,000 people which places it as the fourth largest regional centre in Victoria after Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne.

Jiayuan describes itself as an online dating pioneer «committed to addressing the dating and marriage needs of China's rapidly growing urban singles population by providing a trusted, effective platform.»

CT cities don't have huge populations either, but I do think of them as more urban.