Sentences with phrase «rapid urban growth»

It's a global compact signed on a voluntary basis by Local and Regional Authorities willing to adapt their water infrastructure and services to the emerging challenges they are increasingly facing such as climate change, rapid urban growth, depletion and pollution of water resources or ageing infrastructure.

This all makes us a really exciting test case and one that may have more to say to the developing world (where rapid urban growth is the norm) than a city like Portland — which has a strong sustainability consciousness, but has more to say to a European city (that isn't listening) than to where the real challenges are emerging.

The realities of life outside the nation's largest cities have largely been ignored by narratives of rapid urban growth.

The autocratic reign of the Tsars came to an end in 1917, sparked by economic hardship instigated by Russia's involvement in World War I, rapid urban growth, and the rise of the middle class.

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It has worked for the PC's for a long time, but with the rapid growth of the urban areas, it can no longer be justified, and therefore it makes sense for the PCs to adopt a more «urban» agenda.

The Industrial Revolution brought new urban centers and the rapid growth of existing cities.

In Singapore, where dense urban structures result in the UHI phenomenon, rapid population growth and the expansion of city development are expected to further worsen the quality of urban life.

Due in large part to the influx of immigrant families from a wide variety of nations, rural education is a rapid - growth industry, even as student numbers in urban and suburban schools are declining.

Many cities are looking at urban density and considering how to deal with the rapid projected growth.

For this series of photographs, all hand - printed silver gelatin prints, Laurence Cunnane looks towards the city of Guangzhou — its voracious growth and rapid urban sprawl.

In the heart of Miami Downtown, just a few Metromover stops away from the new Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami River Art Fair reflects the urban landscape of Miami and responds to the city's rapid growth as a cultural destination.

Likewise, investigators have also looked at sites across rural and urban China, which has experienced rapid growth in urbanisation over the past 30 years and is therefore very likely to show UHI.

It has been suggested that UHI has significantly influenced temperature records over the 20th century with rapid growth of urban environments.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

While rapid population growth in any urban centre provides major challenges for its local government, the need here is to develop the capacity of local governments to manage this with climate change adaptation in mind.

Most countries in South, South East and East Asia are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to rapid economic growth and coastward migration of people into urban coastal areas together with high rates of anthropogenic subsidence (for example due to water extraction) in deltas where many of the densely populated areas are located.

Moreover, the rapid growth of industries in urban areas has induced rural - urban migration.

Improvements in health care, urban sanitation, domestic hygiene, nutrition, and literacy have resulted in greatly reduced infant / child mortality and have facilitated rapid growth in the human population.