Sentences with phrase «high population density regions»

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Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Although the hospital was to serve the whole of the capital, «the main catchment area of the hospital, including Nima, Maamobi and Accra Central, which have the highest population density in the Greater Accra Region, will now be served by world - class medical facilities.

On average 38 percent of suitable habitat has already been lost to agriculture in this region, where some of the highest human population densities occur in Africa.

These size effects are then further exacerbated by local land pressures in regions with high local population densities.

Professor Eric Fèvre, Chair of Veterinary Infectious Diseases at the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health said: «Although Laikipia County camel density is low relative to more northern regions of Kenya, our study suggests the population is sufficient to maintain high rates of viral transmission and that camels may be constantly re-infected and serve as long term carriers of the virus.

«Modelling has been used to help develop forecasting systems to predict flood risk around the shallower southern regions of the North Sea, where the coastal margin is low - lying and population density is high.

In the second half of the talk I will present our recent studies of the young stellar population in W3 - AFGL333, located in a high density layer between the expanding W4 HII region and the W3 giant molecular cloud.

Our data indicate that higher climatic suitability may have been sufficient for Europe to «catch up», allowing for much higher population densities than, e.g., the «fertile crescent» region.

To get a sense (a chilling sense) of how popluation patterns have amplified exposure to earthquake hazards in the region, have a look at this map from GeoHazards International (a high - resolution version is here, part of a broader analysis), which shows the quake zone with population densities superimposed:

These are regions with high - potential wind resources, low population density (thus reducing problems related to siting and permitting), and existing and planned transmission lines to carry wind power to where the electricity is needed.

It» s convenient that many are regions of high population density.

It has one of the largest population densities in the world which results in high pressure on land and water resources in the region.

Such a large wind resource in such a sparsely developed and populated region could give China an advantage in exploiting this potential capacity compared to other top wind nations — Germany, the US, Spain and India round out the top five — who, apart from the US, have much higher population densities and more NIMBY-esque battles around the siting of large wind projects.

Your map does indicate population DENSITY is higher in those regions that are more vulnerable.