Sentences with phrase «by urban dwellers»

The problem is often amplified by urban dwellers abandoning unwanted kittens or puppies in rural areas outside of town.

I think the most interesting statistic is how digital reading is firmly embraced by urban dwellers with higher education rather than rural.

Thus, we expect the hybrids — favoured by urban dwellers — to require more regular servicing.

Not exact matches

Maven is really three car - sharing services in one: a city - based service that rents GM vehicles by the hour through an app, another for urban apartment dwellers in Chicago and New York, and a peer - to - peer sharing service that started in Germany last year.

The ACT practice exam has a passage of contemporary literature by Gloria Naylor, an undemanding and clichéd description of a benevolent urban dweller.

From Cain onward, right relationship with God is also mirrored by a fruitful relationship with the land, for both rural and urban dwellers, and vice versa.

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A 2014 Demographic and Health Survey report by the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Statistical Service has revealed that 43 % of Ghana's urban dwellers depend on sachet water as a source of drinking water.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

In Africa many races, nations and communities of men exist within the whole range from hunter and food gatherer to the urban dweller sealed off from nature by pavement, plumbing and prophylaxis.

Of the more than 9 billion humans projected to live on Earth by 2050, an estimated 70 % of them will be urban dwellers.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

Ideal for urban - dwellers to repair and protect against damage by environmental pollutants.

«This bold off - roader was conceived by Kia's California design studio and built for city dwellers seeking the ultimate urban escape,» Kia said in a statement.

A fundamental part of the artist's practice is influenced by the collaborative building process undertaken by dwellers of improvised urban settlements around the world — favelas, barrios, slums, or shanti towns — who rely on recycled and scavenged materials to ingeniously, but often precariously, respond to their rapidly changing living situations.

Wyeth's work was as rural as Warhol's was urban, his nudes as earthy as Warhol's girls (and boys) were dirty, but while the rural can easily look picturesque to the city dweller, and might appear to pander even unintentionally to wide appeal, urban art is by nature of its situation radical and intended for a strictly limited, edgier audience.

The latter was conceived by Melissa Stabile and was featuring among other sculptures and drawings her confortáveis, pillows designed to be hugged by the solitary cosmopolitan urban dweller.

By 2050, India is projected to add 404 million urban dwellers, China 292 million and Nigeria 212 million.

The number of deaths associated with dangerous air is likewise anticipated to increase as the number of urban dwellers rise and car numbers would approach 2 billion by the year 2050.

The year 2030 is also expected to be a milestone for our cities: 150 percent more urban areas are expected to be built by that year to accommodate 1.35 billion more urban dwellers.

While the main culprit is carbon emissions, urban heat islands — exacerbated by dark roofs and pavements — make the effect of global warming even worse for urban dwellers.

This is critical not only for the potential safety benefits offered by automated vehicles, but for the potential mobility gains to the disabled and elderly, the reduced cost of mobility to urban and suburban dwellers, and far more efficient freight networks.

«Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support... the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution... by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half....»

But its functionality comes with another helpful aspect: it could also re-connect urban dwellers with nature, by allowing them to grow their own food plants in a scalable system.

«The city is dominated by fossil fuel - powered cars.The elite still gets around, but most urban dwellers face poor transport infrastructure.»

The Asian Development Bank has called for» increasing energy efficiency and reducing reliance on fossil fuels; adopting a new approach to urbanisation by building more compact and eco-friendly cities; relying much more on mass transit for urban dwellers and railways for long - distance transport; and changing lifestyles to alleviate pressures on finite natural resources».

By 2050, over 70 percent of the world's population will be urban dwellers.