Sentences with phrase «rising urbanization»

The retail segment within the health insurance market is supposedly going to grow at a constant pace due to heightened penetration in smaller cities; replacement of out - of - pocket expenditure with health insurance spends, rising urbanization, demographic shifts and increasing costs of medical procedures.

The document projects that, unless urgent action is taken, waste volumes will double in lower - income African and Asian cities by 2030 due to population growth and rising urbanization and consumption.

Economic developments and rising urbanization, coupled with the growing disposable incomes, in Asia - Pacific region will supplement its presence in the expansion of the global frozen foods market over the forecast period of 2014 - 2020.

Not exact matches

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

«Smaller - format stores have appeal for obvious reasons, driven by urbanization, a rise in smaller households and consumers» changing notion of convenience,» according to a recent report by consulting firm Daymon Worldwide.

These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

Urbanization, population growth, and a rising middle class lead to greater meat consumption.

These three phenomena — African growth, urbanization and the rise of Pentecostalism — also help account, I suspect, for the greater fragmentation of the Christian world.

Furthermore, a rise of crime usually accompanies this urbanization.

Rising investment in housing and construction, escalating urbanization, development of retail chains and rapid increase in healthcare and cosmetics sectors, are driving the stable economic environment for the packaging industry, and customer confidence levels will remain positive during H2 2017 (September 2017 - February 2018) as compare to H1 2017 (February 2017 - July 2017).

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Rising investment in housing and construction, escalating urbanization, development of retail chains and rapid increase in healthcare and cosmetics sectors, are driving the...

AXA and Jumia view Africa as a fast - developing market for financial services and insurance products, benefitting from strong fundamentals such as low penetration rates, rise in middle class, urbanization, as well as the youth of its population.

Despite those efforts, the use of wood fuels is rising due to population growth and emerging urbanization trends, the researchers point out.

«This work makes us think that increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated with global climate change could lead to increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.

«That matches the rise of population centers,» Gemmel explained, suggesting that urbanization around that time paved the way for the AIDS epidemic.

They estimated that land - use changes in the continental United States since the 1960s have resulted in a rise in the mean surface temperature of 0.25 degree Fahrenheit, a figure Kalnay says «is at least twice as high as previous estimates based on urbanization alone.»

In its statement, Peabody reiterated its belief that advanced clean coal technology «is the bridge to a low - emissions future for a world experiencing rising electricity demand to satisfy urbanization and offer a higher quality of life.»

«Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization, DDT's slow decay: Rising temperatures due to climate change were found to have less influence on mosquito populations than land use changes and the decay of residual DDT in the environment.»

These data may explain why NCD rates are on the rise in a nation in which vegetarianism remains common despite urbanization.»

Rapidly increasing production and consumption of pork within the country, driven not only by population growth, but also by a combination of rising incomes and changing preferences associated with urbanization and changing production systems.

Keeping companion animals became common only with the rise of the middle class and urbanization, perhaps because of the deprivation of other contact with animals, or simply because pets cost money and are therefore a signifier of extravagance (Americans spend $ 34 billion on their companion animals every year).

With the urbanization of rural areas, leptospirosis is on the rise.

As the Daily Mail reports, many of these animals are «victims of a growing [urbanization] that has seen millions of people move into high - rise buildings with little room for pets.»

Rapid population growth, increased urbanization and rising per capita income in emerging markets is driving two important trends, which in large measure, drive Zoetis» growth strategy:

As urbanization and development increases, predators are being pushed out of their typical habitat and into «our» human environment... this is the reason that these apparent «attacks» are on the rise.

This rapid urbanization and development changes the face of the land, increasing flood risk at a time when, at least for the eastern half of the state, the risk of heavy downpours is also on the rise.

Economic growth and increasing urbanization of emerging economies such as India's have been accompanied by a rise in ambient air pollution levels, especially in urban areas.1 However, the...

Rising global population, urbanization patterns and infrastructure development needs are driving the demand for cement and concrete.

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This activity report is based on the Asia and the Pacific megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, which are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges.

Urbanization is on the rise; so is the urban heat island effect — a situation that is worsening with the decline of tree cover in U.S. metropolitan areas

Dr. Avakyan's paper attributes the known temperature rise to the effect of solar geomagnetic activity on clouds, and the known rise of CO2 to the carbon not absorbed due to expanding deforestation, desertification, and urbanization, and the resulting lessening of photosynthesis.

Or that not one tree ring study (from locations where temperatures are not influenced by urbanization effects) supports Muller's interpretation of rapidly rising temperatures.

Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.

Not necessarily because the real GDP per capita of Los Angeles is twice that of Berlin ($ US 21,432)- rather because the urbanization patterns in cities from high - income nations as Stockholm, Tokyo, and Berlin (with lower levels of GHG emissions) suggest that there is not necessarily an inevitable relationship between rising incomes, increasing use of private cars and increasing GHG emissions.

Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson, «The Rising Tide: Assessing the Risks of Climate Change and Human Settlements in Low Elevation Coastal Zones,» Environment and Urbanization, vol.

These urbanization effects at Marysville created a rising trend that CO2 advocate scientists expect.

In all regions of the world, except Asian OECD countries and Oceania, per capita consumption is decreasing as a result of rising incomes, urbanization, declining availability of wood sources and increasing availability of alternative sources of energy preferred to woodfuel.

As urbanization progresses, vehicle ownership increases and overall coal consumption continues to rise, «the government must implement strict air pollution control measures» to protect people's health and the environment, the newspaper cited the ministry as saying.

The key question, how much did urbanization contribute to rising temperatures in eastern China?

Major Environmental Issues: Soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices; soil salinity rising due to the use of poor quality water; desertification; natural habitat of many unique animal and plant species is threatened by clearing for agricultural purposes; the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast, the largest coral reef in the world, is threatened by increased shipping and its popularity as a tourist site; limited natural fresh water resources.

Since urbanization has grown dramatically over the past few centuries, it seems reasonable to ask how much of the observed rise in global temperatures is due to urbanization.

Though I would not presume to dictate to posterity, I expect its response to climate change will be more, not less adept than our recent ancestors, whose most noteworthy adaption to rising temperatures and sea levels was demographic: the wholesale invasion, colonization, and urbanization of the tropics.

Watts contends that if the global data were properly adjusted for urbanization and station siting, and land use change issues were addressed, what would emerge is a cyclical pattern of rises and falls with much less of any background trend.

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.

«As Taiwan has seen a rise in water pollution due to its rapid economic growth and urbanization, it was important for the students to call attention to the issue.

But they never deal with the implications of the full energy ladder, which is that levels of energy consumption in poor countries will rise 50 to 100 times higher through urbanization, agricultural intensification, industrialization, and the broader process of modernization.