Sentences with phrase «expansion than population growth»

«The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

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Just as Thomas Malthus had shown how population had the capacity to increase faster than the food supply, so this computer - based report concluded that world order would collapse if population growth, industrial expansion, increased pollution and the depletion of natural resources were to continue at current rates.

The AG's rate of expansion since 1989 has been even higher than the general population growth, the denomination reported.

Our coastal correction factors (a, b) were applied additionally to the derived rates to account for the assumptions that coastal population growth is higher than national population growth in general and that there is urban expansion from 2000 to 2060 into what has been categorised as non-urban areas in the year 2000.

While it might not seem at first that a new study, being highlighted by BBC News, on the overestimation of how much health care costs for our aging populations are likely to increase has an immediate connection to environmentalism, in fact realizing that we may have to spend considerably less money here, as people are productive at much older ages than they used to, has big implications on how we discuss population growth and economic expansion.