Sentences with phrase «global urbanization»

the 20th century has seen a rapid movement of people from the rural to the city, resulting in the global urbanization of the world.

Global urbanization poses new water - related challenges — chief among them supplying clean drinking water, disposing of wastewater, and managing extreme precipitation.

I strove to apply my recent experience in a Berlin evangelical academy and my appreciation of the theology of Paul Lehmann, Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the decline of Christendom, the challenge of global urbanization, the racial crisis, the adolescent pomposity of Playboy and the debasement of women in the annual Miss America pageant.

HOW CITIES CAN BENEFIT FROM CONNECTED, AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTATION: Cities are grappling with decaying transportation infrastructure and booming populations driven by global urbanization.

Not exact matches

A staggering amount of wholesale change is happening — from unprecedented and widespread aging to rampant urbanization and growth in a global middle class to an eastward shift in economic power and a growing number of disruptive technologies.»

Population growth, urbanization and consumption trends call for global resource management.

This session will bring together experts and executives at the forefront of China's push for greener and cleaner urbanization, with a focus on opportunities for global business in China's green building sector.

These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

Today, Asia is the core engine of global economic growth, thanks primarily to urbanization and the expansion of its middle class.

Jonathan has led numerous research efforts on global economic trends, including growth and productivity, urbanization, affordable housing, energy and sustainability, e-commerce, and the economic impact of the Internet, as well as on productivity growth and economic development in China and Asia.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Economic developments and rising urbanization, coupled with the growing disposable incomes, in Asia - Pacific region will supplement its presence in the expansion of the global frozen foods market over the forecast period of 2014 - 2020.

In the context of a changing global nutrition landscape, influenced by economic and income growth, urbanization, demographic change and globalization, diet - related epidemiology has seen a significant shift in recent decades.

Global Savory Snacks market is set to grow, driven by increasing urbanization levels and growing demand from developing countries.

«We have the unique opportunity now to plan for a coming explosion of urbanization in order to decrease pressure on ecosystems, improve the livelihoods of billions of people, and avoid the occurrence of major global environmental problems and disasters,» said Roberto Sanchez - Rodriguez, professor emeritus of environmental studies at the University of California, Riverside.

«This work makes us think that increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated with global climate change could lead to increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.

Pollution, urbanization, and construction of dams and reservoirs are jeopardizing the water supply for nearly 80 percent of the global population (pdf), an international team of environmental scientists concluded in a comprehensive study published in September.

Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.

Unlike previous urban biodiversity research, this study looks beyond the local impacts of urbanization and considers overall impacts on global biodiversity.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The authors looked at human pressure over time using the updated global Human Footprint criteria, which includes roads, agriculture, urbanization and industrial infrastructure, along with forest loss.

Future global demand for metals is expected to increase further as a result of urbanization and new infrastructure construction in developing countries, widespread use of electronics, and transitions in energy technologies [3].

IIASA Researcher Linda See, partner within the WUDAPT initiative co-organizes a workshop to build a global urban knowledge network for informing global research on cities and urbanization.

Global warming and urbanization are threatening bee populations across the country, including North Carolina.

Human - induced changes to carbon fluxes across the land - ocean interface can influence the global carbon cycle, yet the impacts of rapid urbanization and establishment of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) on coastal ocean carbon cycles are poorly known.

There's a large global trend in urbanization, and there are also large increases in inflammatory disorders.

Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social - technological process.

Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global Assessment

According to FTSE's research paper, emerging market economies are being driven into the forefront of global economic growth due to the emergence of new middle class, rapid urbanization, move from export - led to consumption - led growth, and emphasis on production of higher value products.

«This exhibition further highlights the artist's unique perspective through which he examines the global issues of urbanization from a distinct personal standpoint» said the museum space in a press release.

Projects address the Anthropocene — climate change; industrialization and urbanization; bio-diversity; water; the use of natural and human resources; human migration; global capital, commerce and consumption; energy production; and waste.

Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end - of - the world predictions — from global warming and waste to post-peak oil energy crises and uncontrolled world urbanization — architects and urbanists find themselves once more at a crossroad, fertile for visionary thinking.

By utilizing recycled materials such as sculptural documents of memory, she seeks to personalize objects and allude to the lives of specific individuals, which are often neglected in the drive toward excessive urbanization, rapid modern development and the growing global economy.

But most important is the simple fact that, after a burst of effective mosquito eradication decades ago, a host of countries (Brazil in particular) relaxed such efforts, and did so just as humanity's boom in urbanization and global mobility got into high gear.

Here's an illustration from the paper showing how Brazil and other countries in the American tropics dealt a huge blow to Aedes mosquitoes in the first half of the 20th century, but then — only partly because of the ban on DDT — dropped their defenses just as humanity's boom in urbanization and global mobility got into high gear.

The importance of urbanization is underestimated thanks to the flawed research of Peterson and Parker in all the global surface data bases.

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If a substantial fraction of all the weather stations from around the world have been affected by urbanization bias, then this could have introduced an artificial warming trend into the «global temperature trend» estimates.

As a result, their «urbanization bias - corrected» global temperature trend estimates was pretty much the same as the estimates of the other groups who didn't apply any urbanization bias corrections (you can see this by looking back at Figure 1, at the start of the essay).

So, much of the apparent «global warming» might just be urbanization bias.

In a nutshell, we found that urbanization bias has seriously affected the various global temperature trend estimates.

It has been widely - claimed that urbanization bias isn't a problem for the global temperature estimates.

The net effect of their adjustments on their global temperature estimates was unrealistically low, particularly for recent decades, when urbanization bias is expected to have increased.

One of the groups using weather records to calculate global temperature trends has developed a computer program which they believe has removed the urbanization biases from their data.