In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability,
exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.
It soon became obvious that the homogenization process was unwittingly blending rising minimum temperatures
caused by population growth with temperatures from more natural landscapes.
A statistical analysis of various available data sets for soil consumption and socio - economic development showed that urban sprawl and its impact on soil consumption can not be adequately
explained by population growth alone.
But Wednesday's report, which was done for mortgage insurer Genworth Canada, argues that the market will not sink too low, and will be propped up in
part by population growth and modest employment gains.
Rapidly increasing production and consumption of pork within the country, driven not
only by population growth, but also by a combination of rising incomes and changing preferences associated with urbanization and changing production systems.
Amy Douglas» work identifies locations of architectural, historical, and visual interest from celebrated Seattle neighborhoods whose personalities are being
muscled by population growth and progress.
In truth it is neither optimism nor pessimism to acknowledge that, at some point, human - induced resource depletion, both caused and
characterized by population growth will, inevitably, engender an «Earth - generated» backlash.
Global land - use change studies project a significant reduction in native vegetation (mostly forest) in non-industrialised countries and arid regions due to expansion of agricultural or urban land use driven
principally by population growth, especially in Africa, South America and in South Asia (Hassan et al., 2005).
In 1969, he was so
worried by population growth that he organized the Hunger Show, a weeklong fast in a parking lot to dramatize the coming global famine predicted by Paul Ehrlich, one of his mentors at Stanford.
From 1990 to 2005, world grain consumption, driven
largely by population growth and rising consumption of grain - based animal products, climbed by an average of 21 million tons per year.
While there have been advances, progress is
hampered by population growth, widespread poverty, insufficient investments to address the problem and the biggest culprit: a lack of political will.»
The organization prepared analyses and lobbied on issues
affected by population growth, including welfare, education, labour supply, population ageing, immigration and the environment.
The findings suggest that about 80 % of conflict throughout the period can be
explained by population growth that occurred 10 years ago, political stability that occurred three years ago and economic growth within the same year.
Rather, the state's property market collapse is probably the simple consequence of an oversupply of housing brought on by more construction and speculation than could be
supported by population growth.
The region's critical deforestation crisis is
driven by population growth, unscrupulous timber extraction, and agricultural conversion — resulting in the loss of 9.3 percent of its forest cover from 2001 - 2009 alone.
Demand would be driven
by population growth, rising prosperity and increased urbanisation in emerging markets, including Africa, Asia and Latin America.
DPS enrollment has increased 25 percent since 2005, driven
by population growth, residential development on a closed airport and military base, expanded preschool programs (available to most four - year - olds and a few three - year - olds), and students returning from neighboring districts.
Economic growth is driven
by population growth and much more so, increases in productivity.
Growing water demand, driven
by population growth and foreign land (and water) acquisitions, are straining the Nile's natural limits.
There is also the impact of climate change, driven
by population growth and industrialisation.
The third serious problem facing the country that is being exacerbated
by population growth, but no one dare mention, is climate change.
Another serous problem facing the country that is being exacerbated
by population growth, but no one dare mention, is climate change.
Across the whole country MANLY WEST, 4179 is number 377th fastest growing suburb
by population growth, and 79th in State.
At a macro level, purchasing power is affected
by population growth, income growth, credit expansion and investor inflows.