Sentences with phrase «causing urban change»

One needs constant observation in order to predict the factors causing urban change.

Not exact matches

An increasing urban population, changing food consumption pattern and trade globalization have rendered food supply chains extremely complex and lengthy, which calls for a change of mind - set from the traditional way of addressing the causes of food loss at each stage of the food supply chain to an integrated approach.

Those sky - climbing costs are mostly caused by people, not climate change, cautions Munich Reinsurance, which says urban sprawl and expanding development increase the number of targets for Mother Nature to damage.

The region has recently faced social and environmental changes caused in part by the government's attempts to integrate rural and urban areas.

In order to examine neighborhood - level crime - causing effects of a casino in a localized urban environment, Johnson and Ratcliffe analyzed 96 months of crime incident data to determine the extent to which crime counts changed within the Fishtown neighborhood after the casino's opening.

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

De Sherbinin notes the research did not tease apart how much these trends were caused by the urban heating effect versus climate change.

Urban pollution, traffic and shrinking wild spaces have been causing changes in these genetic instructions.

-- Given the continuing rise in urban population, reducing carbon emissions from transportation is considered a key factor in trying to diminish climate change problems caused by larger and larger cities.

The thermometer network is made up of a patchwork of non-research quality instruments that were never made to monitor long - term temperature changes to tenths or hundredths of a degree... Furthermore, land - based thermometers are placed where people live, and people build stuff, often replacing cooling vegetation with manmade structures that cause an artificial warming (urban heat island, UHI) effect right around the thermometer.

Urban economic growth has caused climate change (think of the billions of people who are achieving the «American Dream») but it will also help us to adapt to climate change.

Both of these studies appear to rely on cherrypicked data from regions with many peculiarities (a little less so in the latter case); it is a huge leap to isolate one particular causative factor out of many possible ones (such as urban development, drainage of swamps, deforestation, etc.) and attribute some climate factor change to that cause.

As I have documented before Parmesan has «inaccurately» blamed CO2 warming for extinctions due to lost habitat from urban sprawl, hijacked conservation success to argue poleward movement of butterflies was caused by climate change, and blamed CO2 and extreme weather for a population extinction caused by logging while neighboring natural populations thrived.

The causes of the collapse of the great urban center Cahokia and other elements of the Mississippian culture remain controversial today, with climate change a strong contender.

Research the causes that are important you, be it climate change, urban development, food systems or early childhood education, and learn more about how you can be of use.

Through this, the researchers are trying to find out if these causes are actually responsible for urban changes or not.