Sentences with phrase «rates of population»

Persistent poverty, a lack of governance and high rates of population growth have left African countries with scant capacity to manage too much or too little water.

More recently, sharply different rates of population and economic growth across the world have combined to make many workers from poorer countries eager to move to more prosperous ones.

Moreover, continuing high rates of population growth, especially in Africa and Asia, will make matters even worse, exacerbating environmental degradation as well as retarding economic and social development.

Shift toward a drier climate, as is forecast for significant portions of the United States, including most of those with the highest rates of population growth, and PM risks will worsen.

Pressure on resources was occurring simply by natural rates of population increase, and developed nations were using the resources at an accelerated rate.

Undeveloped economies lack infrastructure, making them inefficient users of energy, and have high rates of population growth, making them greater potential consumers of energy.

There are many unknowns, but IMO a valid and sensible use of the precautionary principle is to reduce rates of population growth, and also economic growth (but in a way that recognises regional differences).

Given rates of population growth are already slowing, it should be viable to have a reasonable level of technology.

The point being rates of population decline are going to possibly flatten, out at two children, and resources are still being used up in the process.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

Reducing rates of population and economic growth to zero deliberately ahead of time, can only smooth this transition.

Many countries have found these prospects to be very challenging, and many have argued that the rates of population aging and population decline that is projected for many European and other very low fertility countries is not sustainable: it implies rather insurmountable problems for social security and other transfer systems, and it may lead to declines in well - being as a result of lower productivity and incomes.

IMO the net result is rates of population growth will reduce, but rather slowly and not enough to be a huge factor in preventing dangerous climate change.

We can argue about rates of population growth, carrying capacity, etc. — but let's keep it simple here.

«Rental property owners in Phoenix will find favorable conditions such as one of the highest rates of population growth and better - than - average employment growth.

Moreover, continuing high rates of population growth, especially in Africa and Asia, will make matters even worse, exacerbating environmental degradation as well as retarding economic and social development.

These results have major implications for management strategies aimed at the recovery of Northwest Atlantic loggerheads and the projected recovery rates of this population, which is considered threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Rates of population growth and inflation, that can ease margin pressures, are low.

The Deng regime claimed that high rates of population growth, lower deathrates caused by modern medicine and a generally poor and badly educated population had forced China to spend too much on housing, food and employment, and fresh water was becoming a limiting factor.

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.

The earth could not provide enough food to sustain the rate of population growth, he concluded.

Ontario government spending has been increasing faster (by about 3 % per year) than the combined rate of population growth and inflation.

Why would you assume that public spending should increase only at the rate of population growth?

While Christianity has declined in Europe and has only held its own (at best) in North America, it has been growing at many times the rate of population in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Much of this loss occurred in New England, where Unitarianism and Universalism had their origin; only in Canada did the growth rate exceed the rate of population increase.

In many parts of the globe, an effective family planning program might actually increase the birthrate and the rate of population growth.

Christianity is fading in all of Europe except Poland, and Poland's startling rate of population decline does not bode well for the future.

A rate of population increase of 4 percent is considered extremely rapid; a rate of price inflation of 4 percent a year is, in most developing countries today, considered to be fortuitously slow.

Later still came the revolution in hygiene and medicine that was responsible for the greatest increase in rate of population growth in the history of the world, with its attendant strain on the resources of the earth.

The principal determinant of whether food production per person is rising or falling in various regions is the rate of population growth.

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

Indeed, it is mathematically demonstrable that the present rate of population growth must be lowered somehow.

Actually we know full well that the rate of population increase will level off one way or another within the next 50 to 100 years.

A significant increase in death by self - destruction demands attention whether it affects the overall death rate of a population or not.

They have little prospect of seeing their graph lines go up radically in a time of decline in the rate of population growth and in the face of numbers of other contrary societal forces.

Rapid growth in coffee production in South America during the second half of the 19th century was matched by growth in consumption in developed countries, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United States, where high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of per capita consumption between 1860 and 1920.

Although we have seen that China, despite being a lot bigger than India in every terms has taken effective steps in order to reduce the rate of population in their country.

In Monroe County, a charming place with 700,000 people (half the population of the Bronx), the rate of land development disproportionately exceeds the rate of population growth.

He also held that «the greatest threat to Africa's peace and security» is the rapid rate of population growth.

The rate of our population growth is outstripping and outpacing the rate at which our economies are expanding and growing.

The paper also incorporates other futuristic elements, like the rate of population growth and the size of the world's economy.

«The introduction of agriculture can not be directly linked to an increase in the long - term annual rate of population growth,» the researchers wrote.

Contrary to previous findings, the new results reveal that the rate of population change has grown much more rapidly than the expansion of urban land.

They then compared the rate of population differentiation to the probability that each bird species would form new species over time.

Besides that, the researchers found that Africa is expected to experience the highest rate of population growth in at - risk areas, driven by its rapid coastal development.

African policy makers do care about the region's rapid rate of population growth — but climate change is by no means the top reason why.

PR: That's true, and that was one of the things that shocked me when we first analysed the results is that the levels of violence that principals are experiencing was seven times the rate of the population in 2011, it's now nine times.

This year's rising star is unassuming Red Deer, Alta., which vaulted to number nine, up from 96th place in 2011, thanks to lower unemployment and a more moderate rate of population growth.

At a minimum, it should grow at the rate of population or else assets will continuously deflate.

I also showed that there is a non-linear benefit in reducing Liquidation of Natural Capital (consumption, pollution) relative to the rate of population reduction.