Sentences with phrase «how urbanization»

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

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

How do we respond wisely to unsustaianble urbanization?

Opening a two - day High - Level Expert Forum on How to Feed the World in 2050 Diouf told the 300 delegates that over the next 40 years: «The combined effect of population growth, strong income growth and urbanization... is expected to result in almost the doubling of demand for food, feed and fibre.»

But until then, we can not foresee how disease - spreading organisms move, interact and emerge due to climate changes, intensified agriculture or urbanization, says senior - author Professor Carsten Rahbek.

This collection of Reviews, Perspectives, and News features delves deeper into how we came to live in cities and what urbanization means for the future of our planet and ourselves.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.

Understanding how climate change might influence flooding has been a tricky endeavor because so many other factors, like urbanization, deforestation or the dredging of rivers, also impact how often floods occur and how big they are, muddying the picture.

While it was beyond the scope of this report, analysis of population growth also takes into account how rapid urbanization would change the face of human settlements and affect their ability to adapt to climate change.

How much population and development growth there will be is uncertain, so Georgescu and his team set a floor and a ceiling for urbanization projections up to the year 2050 based on available data from the Maricopa Association of Governments, the regional agency in charge of long - term planning.

While a great deal of research has explored the economic, political and environmental issues that will be affected by increasing urbanization, far less has examined how this trend has impacted China from a social standpoint.

Texas artist Buster Graybill is drawn to how the affects of urbanization and development have altered the appearance and character of rural America.

These subjects or innocents, such as pit bulls and seals, are deeply affected by our systematic urbanization and our negative impact on our natural environment, as well as how our relationships to the animals themselves.

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.

So, in our first «Urbanization bias» paper, we decided to check how these studies came to that conclusion.

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In particular, it considers how climate change and urbanization affect the scope and scale of emergencies, as well as what these trends mean for emergency preparedness and response.

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A critical issue is this: how much of perceived global warming is due to such urbanization effects?

«Managing the growing process of urbanization, making more climate friendly cities, focusing more on research on how faster the carbon emission can be reduced might help in some extent.»

As an example of how one - sided the chapter authors could be in their reviews, let us consider the discussion of urbanization bias, since this is a topic which we have written a series of three papers on (summary here).

When the 2007 IPCC reports were being written, there was considerable debate over how badly urbanization had biased global temperature estimates.

How might agricultural productivity, urbanization, and energy modernization processes be accelerated and what will be necessary to capture the benefits for conservation?

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The key question, how much did urbanization contribute to rising temperatures in eastern China?

Fan and her postdocs focus on getting a process - level understanding of how wildfires and urbanization affect cloud formation and storms, particularly when plumes of fine smoke particles well up over the Rocky Mountains and interact with storm systems on the central plains.

Since urbanization has grown dramatically over the past few centuries, it seems reasonable to ask how much of the observed rise in global temperatures is due to urbanization.

I never did understand how anyone could possibly adjust for urbanization, siting changes, etc without boots on the ground examining each and every station, and adjustments being made one station at a time.

How To Build A Vertical Garden & DIY Guides Urbanization has robbed Mother Nature of space to place her beautiful brood of plants and flowers.

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.

It does not see how it can possibly actually cap emissions growth, given the ongoing urbanization and other developments noted above, and Beijing does not accept international obligations that it does not think it is capable of meeting.

The studies, both out of Brazil, measure how air pollution lowers fertility in men and can complicate pregnancies in women — problems likely to be compounded by the rapid urbanization taking place in the developing world where access to healthcare is much more limited.

Second, we argue for the primacy of urbanization as a driver of change in demographics, resource consumption, and ideation and, in turn, develop a qualitative model of how changes in those factors drive environmental impacts, harming and then potentially helping nature in a broadly predictable way.

Demographic change — and not just growth, but urbanization — has been rapid and is continuing, raising the question of how cities and countries maintain services and build infrastructure in fast - growing regions.

His experience in this regard informs his knowledge of urbanization trends, particularly how they impact and apply to emerging markets.