Sentences with phrase «changes in population expected»

Population growth is a factor, but the largest plausible changes in population expected this century make little difference to the total; we have two far more urgent problems reflected in these numbers:

Not exact matches

The demographics are also changing: more than 400 million millennials have emerged as a driving force in consumer spending, while the country's aging population — expected to double over the next two decades — will generate new product and services demands.

Although he carefully denied (as social scientists do) that he was making predictions, he wrote that «we may expect these gradual changes in population composition to encourage many, or most, of the following developments.»

With a hungry global population, all expecting to eat, food manufacturing is innovating changing in how the consumer is fed.

See for example complaints about the British NHS and understaffing in L&D due to population demographics changing faster than expected.

But according to the Times, no matter who is in charge, the population percentage changes are expected to be so great that Democrats are almost sure to get a handful of new seats in the Senate.

Some researchers expect that as climate change pushes agriculture and human populations farther north, «people are going to come more in contact with these mostly pristine landscapes» and disturb them in ways that could increase fire risk, Page says.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

But as global populations grow and climate change kicks in, one thing is certain: we can no longer count on the water to be where we expect to find it.

«When a population loses genetic diversity, they lose the ability to adapt to change,» Hundertmark said, adding that although Alaska herds are expected to fair slightly better at least in the near future, they are still facing significant challenges.

With a global population that is expected to blossom in the coming years, and risks to food yields from climate change, it will be essential to shore up food infrastructure and keep global food markets open in food - exporting nations, he said.

Climate conditions around Ardley Island have been generally favourable for penguins over the last 7,000 years and the team had expected the local population to show minor fluctuations in response to changes in climate or sea ice.

Some coral populations in peripheral seas (or extreme environments such as tide pools) live today in environments that climate change projections expect for the tropical ocean in about a century.

In the future, it is expected to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as oil, coal or gas and help tackle major challenges such as climate change and global population growth.

Many sea turtle populations are in decline and climate change is expected to exacerbate these declines because turtle eggs are vulnerable to high temperatures.

Increased expression of genes such as ABCG2 (37), CD44 (32), DNER (38) and ALDH1 (30), and decreased expression of ESR1 (34) support the use of this CSC enrichment method as all of these changes are expected in a CSC - enriched population.

For instance, she says, although an increase in carbon monoxide levels of 10 micrograms per cubic meter raises an individual's short - term heart - attack risk by just 5 % or so, a change in air quality of that magnitude could be expected to account for 4.5 % of all heart attacks in the exposed population.

And thus, the medical system in the end is simply reflective of a faulty paradigm for life on the part of the population, and until we all learn to change our thinking, we can not expect the doctors to recommend things we are not willing to accept.

In fact, we come to the same conclusion in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure In fact, we come to the same conclusion in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure in - differences estimates in Figure in Figure 1.

Table 2 contains projections of how county cat and shelter populations would be expected to change in the absence of the voucher program under different owned versus feral cat ratios.

My pet peeve is where the expected change in temperature is almost always presented in degrees C and not F. I would guess that 80 percent of the US population could not define C, or convert it to F.

The general assumption here is an expected behavior change in the human population, which rises and gains with more pronounced climate change.

Determining which types of prevention to invest in (such as monitoring, early warning systems, and land - use changes that reduce the impact of heat and floods) depends on several factors, including health problems common to that particular area, vulnerable populations, the preventive health systems already in place, and the expected impacts of climate change.275 Local capacity to adapt is very important; unfortunately the most vulnerable populations also frequently have limited resources for managing climate - health risks.

Some invasive species will suffer from climate change and are expected to decrease in range and population size in some regions.

Water quantity and quality issues are expected to exacerbate existing economic and social issues for the 65 Native American tribes in the Great Plains, where populations on rural tribal lands have limited capacities to respond to climate change.

The Lowy Institute report argues that expected climate change «poses fundamental questions of human security, survival and the stability of nation states» and identifies food shortages, extreme weather events and rising sea - levels as potential causes of large - scale, unregulated population movements in Asia and destabilisation of governments unable to respond.

Even if problems caused by climate change turn out to be modest, global populations are expected to increase to 10 billion people by 2050, and the demand for food will likely go up by 50 percent or more as people in the developing world increase their income and consume foods that require more resources to produce.

Climate change worldwide and in the U. S. is expected to severely impact imperiled wildlife and reduce biodiversity by altering the distribution and abundance of many species, resulting in hastened population extinctions.

One is that the evidence for change in the expected direction if climate change was having an effect — that is, changes in physical (ice sheets, stream flow, coastal erosion etc.) and biological systems (timing of breeding events, shifting species ranges, population declines etc.)-- is overwhelming.

«There is great concern that a lack of males could lead to inbreeding in small populations of marine turtles, potentially causing a population crash,» explained Lucy Wright, a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter who led the study, «however our research suggests that there are more males out there than expected considering the female - biased hatchling sex ratios and that their mating patterns will buffer the population against any potential feminising effects of climate change.»

However, it is expected that this scenario will change soon, and India's insured population will hit almost 75 crores in the next half - decade.

Changes in health care and a growing elderly population also contributes to expected growth.