Sentences with phrase «of population growth»

And some Asian countries have managed to reduce their rate of population growth in recent years.

At the same time, high levels of population growth in these regions are generating greater demand for food.

As a result of population growth, estimated to grow from 7 towards 10 billion and a doubling of the consumption per capita in 2050, the pressure on land and nature increases significantly.

It is often argued that we don't have to worry about the effect of population growth on emissions growth because we can cut our emissions by changing technologies and pursuing energy efficiency.

It also scores very well in crime, has good cultural representation, low unemployment, a very reasonable level of population growth and better than average personal income levels.

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.

If our greenhouse gases are growing because of population growth then they don't count.

The promise that giving priority to economic growth will solve the problem of population growth has been proven false.

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

In the absence of concerted action to save water, the combination of population growth and climate change (bottom) will create scarcity far and wide.

Students use estimates of population growth and land use to calculate how much additional farmland will be needed in the future to feed the growing world population.

The findings offer insights into the influence of population growth and population ethics on climate change and human development policy.

But compounding the challenge is that the pattern of population growth is very uneven - with a surplus of places in some parts of the country.

Although 1.7 billion people obtained connections to electricity between 1990 and 2010, the rate was only slightly ahead of the population growth of 1.6 billion over the same period.

Maybe as a function of population growth, but not as a proportion of scientists versed in the relevant disciplines.

The concept of momentum of population growth is one that must be considered.

The contribution of population growth between 2000 and 2010 remained roughly identical to the previous three decades, while the contribution of economic growth has risen sharply (high confidence).

From 2001 to 2006, the vast majority (86 per cent) of population growth took place in metropolitan areas.

One of the most serious of all contemporary problems is the limitation of population growth in order to establish a proper balance between human requirements and natural resources.

Normally when the church takes note of areas of population growth, it plots how to serve the growing community.

In the social sciences, models of economic development or of population growth allow quantitative predictions of a few variables to be studied under a set of simplifying assumptions.

It is worth noting that two to three decades of sustained pressure for the suppression of population growth is beginning to have consequences unforeseen by its advocates.

One of our largest problems has been lack of population growth.

One is the history of failed projections about the consequences of population growth.

«We can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth,» they wrote.

Conflict at the intersection of population growth and climate change.

If it happened again — after 150 years of population growth — it could be a trillion dollar disaster, and millions would have to abandon their homes.

Recent claims that man - made global warming might be yet another disaster to be laid at the feet of population growth are no more credible.

As a new hot spot of population growth and job opportunity, the probability of personal injury also increases.

Analysis of the components of population growth between 2001 and 2006 will be undertaken as part of the development of final estimates and projections of the Indigenous population as discussed above.

Combined with high rates of population growth, the city is an exciting place to be.

In coming years, the world's demand for energy is expected to increase considerably as a result of population growth and economic development, mostly in Asian countries.

To turn off the tap, we have to face up to the problems of both population growth and economic growth.

The combination of population growth and humanity's current transition to being an urban species is creating a building boom in cities within known earthquake zones.

A lot of change will be needed — to infrastructure, to patterns of population growth, to supply chains for food and other materials.

But 95 % of the population growth in developing countries in the next 30 years will be urban.

These kind of figures are above what is needed to keep ahead of population growth, but only slightly.

Tom Kloza, head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) told CNBC this week that it's important to think of oil supply in the context of population growth:

«However, and unfortunately for the dingo, most people have overlooked that about the same time as dingoes came along, the climate changed rather abruptly and Aboriginal populations were going through a major period of intensification in terms of population growth and technological advances.»

So how we manage infinite aspirations of a species that's been on this explosive trajectory — not just of population growth but of consumptive appetite — how can we make a transition to a sort of stabilized and still prosperous relationship with the Earth and each other is the story of our time.

The Australia Institute has conducted a systematic analysis of the implications of population growth in Australia on emissions growth.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.