Sentences with phrase «from urban sprawl»

(PS how much of that decline was from urban sprawl?

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.

From the urban sprawl of Istanbul and Mexico City to the Rocky Mountains in the United States and the deserts of Jordan, permaculture activists are gently greening the world one small patch at the time.

Yet, its riches are under threat from urban sprawl, deforestation, forest fires and pollution.

Arthur's Seat... a jagged, grassy prominence rising up from the urban sprawl of Edinburgh, offers one of the best views of the city.

Set on 40 acres of preserved desert landscape at the foothills of Pinnacle Peak and a world away from the urban sprawl of Phoenix, the Four Seasons Scottsdale features 210 Southwestern - inspired rooms, most of which are located within adobe casitas that dot the hotel property.

«Land here is cheap and, as a result, we've suffered from urban sprawl,» explains Christian Gannon, a veteran Re / Max Realtor.

The soil is still under threat from urban sprawl.

To designate a Green Belt, a local authority must prove why normal planning and development control policies would not be adequate to protect a town from urban sprawl.

Take the greenbelt: a phenomenally good idea to protect great swathes of our countryside from urban sprawl.

A new wave of garden cities is needed to solve Britain's housing shortage and save the countryside from urban sprawl, Nick Clegg has said.

Another 15 percent or so is earmarked to pay other debts: student loans to get the education required for middle class employment, auto loans to drive to work (from the urban sprawl promoted by tax shifts favoring real estate «developers»), credit card debt, personal loans and retail credit.

Not exact matches

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the jewel of Parkland, graduating top - notch students and athletes who grow up in a dignified affluence far removed from the gritty urban sprawl of Miami.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

A larger road network with faster speed limits encourages urban sprawl by inducing people to move to suburbs more distant from their jobs, and, more generally, to be more likely to plan longer trips in their cars.

But it is possible to slow the pace of urban sprawl by harnessing the full development potential of central areas, according to forecasts by Guillaume Marois, a recent Ph.D. from INRS who has developed a spatial microsimulation model called Local Demographic Simulations (LDS).

If everything goes according to plan, data from the US probe will help researchers track large natural sources and sinks of CO2, such as oceans and forests, and perhaps some manmade sources, such as sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

Highways and urban sprawl have left the cats» territories increasingly isolated from each other, a study shows

In Montreal, the degree of urban sprawl went up 26-fold from 1971 to 2011, while in Quebec City, it rose ninefold.

New research from Concordia shows that there's indeed a lot more we could be doing to combat urban sprawl — and European countries are leading the way.

«It is suffering from warmer temperatures even where the habitat is still in good shape and has trouble moving north past the urban sprawl of San Diego and Los Angeles.»

Others hope that it will also allow OCO - 2 to go beyond large natural sources and sinks, such as oceans and forests, to detect CO2 emanating from sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

Using maps dating as far back as 1833, the researchers modeled the urban sprawl process as Groane developed from agricultural land into a residential and industrial area, and then into a postindustrial suburb of the Milanese metropolis.

The school, a sprawling two - story building less than a mile from Harvard University, is a fairly typical urban school.

Indeed this big red truck, which reminds me of a toy from my childhood come to life, is a bit conspicuous in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles.

From tiny out - of - the - way hamlets to sprawling urban centers like Fargo, there's no shortage of great places to call home sweet home.

The hotel is located in a residential area in the middle of the 19th district, not far from Parc de la Villette (a sprawling urban park) and is steps from the Crimée metro station.

Isolated from the mainland — and protected from its rampant development — the island is a beacon for those looking to shake off the bounds of urban sprawl and truly reconnect with the wild places, where nature still rules and humans can be just a part of the landscape.

The center plans to monitor a turf war between two squirrel species: the western gray squirrel, which is disappearing from its historic range because of urban sprawl and strong competition from the more adaptable eastern fox squirrel, which was introduced to the region in the early 1900s.

In order to stop LEGION and take back the world, the Agents of Mayhem will traverse a sprawling urban battlefield from the ground to the rooftops and team up as a super-agent collective to stop LEGION at any cost.

Grand Theft Space transports players from GTA 5's urban sprawl to the cosmos above.

Engineer a sprawling transportation empire through history in the imaginative new strategy venture from Urban Games and Gambitious Digital Entertainment

These environments are invariably grim, rendered in mottled browns and municipal grey, the bleakness of the urban sprawl punctuated by pulsating neon signs and road - side hoardings that take inspiration from films like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

The piece examines issues of the natural and built landscape by comparing the monoculture that arises from unchecked suburban and urban sprawl with that of an over-cultivated landscape — creating a work that is «picturesque, familiar and simultaneously foreboding.»

Switching out the grand Western vistas of Watkins, O'Sullivan and Adams for urban sprawl and endless concrete, photographers began to radically redefine landscape just as Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour did for architecture in Learning from Las Vegas in 1972.

She grew up on the edge of urban sprawl in Phoenix, Arizona, and received her BFA in Photography from the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in 2009.

Whether these be the idyllic landscapes of his childhood memories, before rampant urbanization began its sprawl outwards from the city centers of India, or more current scenes of environmental degradation and urban decay, the balance (or imbalance) between humanity and its habitats has remained the primary focus of his work.

In particular, Hatakeyama has routinely returned to the Tokyo - Yokohama metropolis, exploring this ever - evolving urban sprawl from both below and above, mapping the growth and expansion of these sites over time.

Urban sprawl, space junk, graffiti, buried hazardous material, and the accumulation of refuse, punctuated by heavy black areas that map a direct trail from the ubiquitous to the subconscious.

Aside from some visible matters (e.g., urban sprawl, some forms of pollution, and etc.), we felt that we could pass the world to future generations in decent shape.

Shifting from sprawl and long commutes to sensible urban design is going to be a long and gradual process.

The Greenbelt, created by the Liberal government in 2005, «protects environmentally sensitive areas and productive farmlands from urban development and sprawl.»

Tokyo looks big on the map, and from this photo too, but in fact, it is made up of many small «villages» sited around hundreds of subway and commuter rail stations, so I never felt I was living in a massive urban sprawl.

On the other, there's that unpleasant paternalistic we - need - the - green - belt - to - protect - the - poor - people - from - urban - sprawl brigade, who forget that it's such legislation which locks people into concentrated developments, and precludes them from building for themselves, where they'd like to.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

The urban freeway cut downtown off from the city's regional transportation hub, Union Station, and further exacerbated automobile dependency and suburban sprawl.

Black Carbon Methane No Keystone XL In Harm's Way: Keystone Threatens America's Animals, Plants Offshore Fracking Oil Trains Climate Change Is Here Now California Fracking Fracking Global Warming and Life on Earth Global Warming and Endangered Species Initiative 350 or Bust The Arctic Meltdown Energy and Global Warming Energy Development on Public Lands Global Warming Litigation The Clean Air Act Transportation and Global Warming Fuel Economy Standards Airplane Emissions Ship Emissions Fighting Climate Science Suppression Enforcing National Assessment of Climate Change Effects California Environmental Quality Act: Urban Sprawl and Global Warming Saving Mountaintop Species From Warming Clearcutting and Climate Change Population Growth and Climate Change Sea - level Rise

The effects of urban sprawl are numerous, ranging from increased transportation costs, greenhouse gas emissions, permanent alteration and destruction of habitats, and on.

Although the definition of «urban» is quirky, it would be interesting to subtract from the tree sequestration values, carbon lost from trees cut to make way for sprawl.

Although a drive through parts of Surrey would suggest this is a city of urban sprawl, strip malls, baseball caps, double - wide trailers, and a rather uncomfortably high murder rate, it has a lot of what Vancouver and Victoria don't have: lots of land, direct access to the United States border, comparatively affordable housing costs, and people from all over the world moving there.