Sentences with phrase «impact of population growth»

That same year, Sanger incorporated the American Birth Control League, an ambitious new organization that examined the global impact of population growth, disarmament, and famine.

Can your insights about the scaling laws of cities help us understand the impact of population growth and urban migration?

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This needs to be addressed because of the pending adverse impacts of an ageing population on economic growth and on government revenues and spending.

This is because population growth is slowing as the positive impact of the post-war baby boom is mostly behind us now.

Such analysis is especially important, given the impact of an ageing population on economic growth, and government revenues and spending, especially for public pensions and health care.

For most types of growth, the population density of a business owner's region (urban, rural, or suburban) didn't have any impact on their growth plans.

The government has been warned many times that, after 2015, the combination of an aging population and the resulting impact on economic growth and government revenues and expenses will result in ongoing deficits and increasing debts — a fact the Conservatives have failed to acknowledge to date.

And with the inevitable population growth ahead of us, I want us to always be mindful and forward - thinking in terms of impact on the natural environment.

Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

The growth of the French packaging industry will be heavily influenced by changing demographics and social factors such as a high employment rate and a large aging population, which have a clear impact on consumer spending power and purchasing habits...

«The enormous size of the Chinese population, 1.35 billion people, means growth in per - capita consumption has a big impact on total Chinese demand, and in turn, total global demand,» the Commonwealth Bank's dairy report said.

'' With the population growth in Nigeria and the drying up of the Lake Chad, we have to move faster and adapt to the impacts of climate change through technological solutions,» the President said.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

By cross-referencing these impacts with data on local elephant populations, forest tree - species composition and structure, nutrient availability, and understory growth in existing Central African forests — both protected and unprotected ones alike — Poulsen and his team determined that up to 96 percent of all forests in the region were susceptible to dramatic changes if elephant populations shrank or disappeared.

They were asked to discuss global population trends, including growth, fertility, and the impacts of immigration.

A statistical analysis of various available data sets for soil consumption and socio - economic development showed that urban sprawl and its impact on soil consumption can not be adequately explained by population growth alone.

«Economic and population growth are drivers for emissions and they have outpaced the improvements of energy efficiency,» said Ottmar Edenhofer, economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

To determine the impact of environment on growth, cuttings from trees in many wild populations were grown in research plots in four distinct environments from California to British Columbia.

Those impacts will also be influenced by economic and population trends, by the pace of growth and innovation in the renewable energy sector, and by natural disasters.

A study published earlier this year and led by Prestemon used both climate models and projections of societal changes, like population growth and development, to look at how they might impact wildfire projections.

Phenomenon could have long - term impact on population growth in urbanizing societies Reykjavik, February 7, 2008 — In a paper published today deCODE scientists establish a substantial and consistent positive correlation between the kinship of couples and the number of...

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Through a simulation, students model several consecutive seasons of a fishery and explore how such variables as advances in technology, population growth, and attention to sustainable fishing practices impact fish catch and fisheries management.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

In schools and districts that take on a wide variety of roles and serve diverse student populations, more focus should be put on measures that impact individual student growth and their ability to access the curriculum.

We have used 3D Growth data to identify middle schools from across the region which have the greatest potential for improvement, and thus provide an objective way to make the largest possible impact on the population - level performance of our students.

The population of Dearborn was positively impacted with the growth of the Ford Motor Company.

Discover how the Latino population shapes and impacts the overall growth of the U.S. economy in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Prudential Investment Management experts are focused on an aging global investing population that will continue to dampen economic growth and keep interest rates low globally — rivaling the impact of cyclical market trends heading into 2016.

Chan's work has been published in several respected science based platforms and his most recent projects include studies on the impact of polluted environments on coral as well as the population and growth of the Queen Conch.

This year's FotoFest biennial takes on the interconnected issues of climate change; population growth and migration; globalized use of natural resources and capital; and the impact of new technologies.

12 FotoFest 2016 Biennial: «Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet» will examine issues of climate change, population growth and migration and the impact of new technologies.

«It is also accepted that population growth has had a detrimental impact on the quality of human life itself.

Note that any net change in biomass (whether trees, or cows or even humans) does affect atmospheric CO2, but the direct impact of human population growth is tiny even though our indirect effects have been huge.

In addition, the investigated 32 summary conclusions on regional impacts do not mention other factors that play an important role, such as the influence of population growth on water shortages.

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

Video reports explore the forces driving changes in fertility, the impact of access to family planning and one instance, in Machakos, Kenya, where rapid population growth did not come with social or environmental harms.

The figures say that this 77 % of energy from renewables by 2050 can be achieved with zero impact on either global economic growth (measured in GDP per capita at purchasing power parity) or on population growth compared with the «do nothing» baseline.

This team, led by Jose Marengo of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), assesses the local impacts of the global SRES A1B emissions scenario, an old IPCC scenario for (A1) a world with rapid economic growth, decreasing population after 2050 and rapid implementation of efficient technologies with (B) a «balanced mix of energy sources».

The growth of the ecological footprint of a human population about to increase from 7B now to 9B in 2050 raises serious concerns about how to live both more efficiently and with less permanent impacts on the finite world.

There is also the impact of climate change, driven by population growth and industrialisation.

This manual elucidates the ways in which population dynamics (growth, composition and distribution) interact with climate change and impact the well - being of people and the planet.

The exponential growth of your projection seems to fit very well for a world of «business - as - usual», provided other factors, which might have a direct impact on atmospheric CO2, continue as they have in the past: global population growth, global degree of industrialization, global (constant currency adjusted) GDP growth, etc..

Climate change impacts that intensify competition for increasingly scarce resources like freshwater and arable land, especially in the context of population growth, are areas of concern.

Greater resilience to climate change impacts will be essential to the technical viability of the energy sector and its ability to cost - effectively meet the rising energy demands driven by global economic and population growth.

Nicholls [13] considered two scenarios of coastal population change in a scenario - based analysis of coastal flooding impacts for the 21st century: First a low - growth scenario, where coastal change was assumed to uniformly follow national change.

Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth, increasing consumption of animal products.

Therefore, growth in population and consumption per capita have both played comparably important roles in the remarkable increase of human impact on planet Earth.

Randers, co-author of the seminal 1972 report «Limits to Growth,» which highlighted the devastating impacts of economic and population growth on the Earth, argues that capitalism and democracy will continue to hamper climate aGrowth,» which highlighted the devastating impacts of economic and population growth on the Earth, argues that capitalism and democracy will continue to hamper climate agrowth on the Earth, argues that capitalism and democracy will continue to hamper climate action.