Sentences with phrase «consequences of population growth»

One is the history of failed projections about the consequences of population growth.

Not exact matches

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

The development of modern machine civilization is in part a consequence of the growth of population.

In practice the people who severely limit the number of children they have tend to be the more successful, productive members of society, the kind of people who understand the consequences of unrestricted population growth and so on.

«Studies that aim to predict the consequences of climate change on insect populations should consider additional factors that may ultimately limit growth and survival, such as the risk of being eaten by a predator,» Culler says.

Along this thinking it is probable to miss out on taking note of the consequences, if a segment of the population is marginalised or excluded from the benefits of such growth.

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 share of capital and population installed in flood - prone area can be increasing with growth, making disaster consequences (when a disaster occurs) grow more rapidly than wealth.

They add, grimly, that things could also get worse: «It should also be noted that the projections do not take into account potential negative feedback from the environmental consequences of rapid population growth.

Each resource faces rising demands and constraints in many regions as a consequence of economic and population growth and climate change, which will amplify their vulnerability to one another.

SSPs include quantifications of factors that are considered drivers of such outcomes such as population growth and economic growth, but quantification of the consequences of these drivers is left to scenarios that will be produced based on the SSPs (van Vuuren et al. 2013).

Rapid population growth also exacerbates vulnerability to the negative consequences of climate change, exposing growing numbers of people to climate risk.

Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.