Sentences with phrase «how urban sprawl»
A photograph of an insect, plant or animal, tagged with the date and location where it was taken, can provide valuable scientific data, e.g., on how urban sprawl impacts local ecosystems or evidence of local, regional or global climactic shifts.
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During Hurricane Harvey, we saw how a city's layout can worsen the effects of a storm, as Houston's urban sprawl and scant zoning likely set the stage for catastrophic flooding.
NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.
«Before we can put a stop to urban sprawl, it's important to understand how to reliably measure it,» says Concordia geography professor Jochen Jaeger, co-author of a recent joint European Environment Agency / Federal Office for the Environment report.
«How can we slow down urban sprawl?
To the first comment, Staten Island is an example of how a suburban area is becoming an urban area only because it was an example, in the late»60s and 70's, of how a beautifully - functioning borough of small downtowns became a sprawling, car - centric suburb thanks to Robert Moses, the V - N Bridge and the Staten Island Expressway.
By investing in OSW projects, coastal states can potentially circumvent a perennial dilemma: how to cost - effectively construct new onshore electricity transmission infrastructure to serve growing demand in densely populated urban areas and sprawling suburbs.
(PS how much of that decline was from urban sprawl?
If urban sprawl just brings more commuting and therefore transportation and air pollution issues, not to mention eating up usable greenspace with more houses and big box stores, then the question comes as to how to construct new comes in a city that is already developed?