Sentences with phrase «rapidly urbanizing»

We believe that on rapidly urbanizing planet Earth, the key to sustainability is the development of ecological cities where people can live healthy lives with reduced environmental footprints.

We believe that on rapidly urbanizing planet Earth, the key to sustainability is the development of ecological cities where people can live healthy lives with reduced environmental footprints.

With one Indian city already installing composters at every police station, it seems composting could play an important role in a strategic approach to this rapidly urbanizing country's waste challenges.

As this paper demonstrates, a massive expansion of energy systems, primarily carried out in the rapidly urbanizing global South, in combination with the rapid acceleration of clean energy innovation, is a more pragmatic, just, and morally acceptable framework for thinking about energy access.

The company is seeking to pioneer new financing models in rapidly urbanizing areas in Latin America and other developing countries that create sustainable housing at the lowest cost of acquisition and total ownership, through resilient and energy - efficient design and materials use

Two new report suggest practical ways to ensure that rapidly urbanizing communities retain farmland to produce food for the local population.

Some of the possible solutions the report proposes are familiar, like more efficient modes of transportation and the development of more compact cities that encourage public transportation, bicycling, and walking, especially in the rapidly urbanizing parts of the world.

In the rapidly urbanizing «third» world, that property, as well as exploitation of a local rather than an imported energy source, is driving its use and avoiding of some of the effects from coal burning in and around many Asian urban centers much in the news lately.

Africa, meanwhile, is projected to power its rapidly urbanizing population with abundant natural gas and hydroelectric energy, much more so than with solar or wind.

According to the authors, the massive expansion of energy systems, mainly carried out in the rapidly urbanizing global South, is the only robust, coherent, and ethical response to the global challenges we face, climate change among them.

In a rapidly urbanizing world, plans to meet this commitment must focus on urban development and building design to meet zero emissions performance standards.

Dr Hoesung Lee, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), presenting on how science can enable the policy response to the Paris Agreement: «The largest opportunities for climate change action are in rapidly urbanizing countries, that is developing countries, where infrastructure have not yet set in.»

Eko Nugroho's multidisciplinary practice uses humor to address social issues, including changes within the rapidly urbanizing society of his native Indonesia, the risk of religious fanaticism, and the breaking of traditional taboos by the younger generation.

Henri Rousseau's large paintings with plentiful foliage and vegetation fascinated Assiff, as Rousseau painted repeating flora and fauna while living in a rapidly urbanizing city and yet had never been to the jungle.

In rapidly urbanizing parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, cities are still being built to accommodate motorists, even where they represent a fraction of the urban population.

The authors of the study say their findings could have important implications in future land - use — particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions where some wildlife still persist.

«Rapidly urbanizing cities in the frontier markets of Africa and Southeast Asia will benefit from favorable demographics, cheap labor and a rising middle class,» said LaSalle's Gordon.

Here, we report surface water dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and sedimentary organic carbon concentrations and their isotopic compositions in the rapidly urbanized Jiaozhou Bay in northeast China as well as carbonate parameters in effluents of three large WWTPs around the bay.

Not exact matches

What Legge meant by that, the University of Queensland summary of her findings explained, was that «in addition to strategic cat control in bushland areas,» where cats have already long been massacred as rapidly as they can be found, «there is a need to address feral cats in heavily urbanized areas where their population density could be 30 times higher than in natural environments.»

Also, Alberta has been urbanizing rapidly, and lots of young people have moved in, two core constituencies for the NDP.

While Africa and Asia are urbanizing rapidly, the regions are still home to nearly 90 per cent of the world's rural population.

Gogs, given how birth rates have fallen rapidly in the last 50 years (at least, almost everywhere outside sub-Saharan Africa) as the world has become more developed and urbanized, wouldn't economic development also solve the population problem in the long run?