Sentences with phrase «since urban populations»

Since urban populations are growing, and new cities springing up everywhere, classical physics can help in unexpected ways.

That's a dangerous combination, since urban populations are more at risk of disruption from the effects of global warming.

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That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

Downtown Miami continues to establish itself as a true global, urban destination, with a population of almost 90,000 residents — a 150 % increase since 2000 and still growing, consisting mostly of young professionals.

For instance, recent research strongly suggests that in modern urban populations, the human microbiome has undergone major changes since the Industrial Revolution.

Though the states bald eagle population has been steadily increasing since the late 1970s, the birds havent shown a fondness for urban real estate, preferring to nest in forested areas along the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.

In fact, as Duke economist Charles Clotfelter has pointed out, segregation levels within school districts have actually decreased since the 1970s, after allowing for the changing demographic of urban populations.

Unlike many urban districts which have struggled with major declines in student enrollment, Wichita's student population increased by nearly 1,100 students since 2009 (up to 51,133 in 2015).

Finally, since many young people prefer to be in a fairly urban environment, we gave a very slight preference to cities with higher populations.

Findings from the Urban Coyote Research Program revealed that Chicagoland's coyote population has more than doubled since 2005.

During the Idul Fitri holiday week, you can expect less traffic in Bali, since most of the non-Balinese urban population flees the island (a collective act locally referred to as mudik) to gather with their families at home in other parts of Indonesia.

Bottom panel shows the U.S. population trends since 1890 for urban areas.

Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the populaUrban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the populaurban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the populaurban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population.

Globally, since 1960 the world population has about doubled, but the urban population has gone up by 3.7 times.

Over half of the world's population has been living in urban areas since 2011; by 2050, it could be as many as 70 percent of us.

Together with the fact that the population of Armagh when compared with other Irish and UK cities has increased relatively little since the late 18th and early 19th centuries (population 1816: 7,000; 1911: 7,600; 1991: 14,265), its rural environment has ensured that the observatory suffers from little or no urban micro-climatic effects (see Coughlin and Butler (1998)-RRB-.

In addition to your points, I think it is worth remembering that since we are talking about rates of change and since UHI is generally viewed as being related to the log of population change, then it is very likely that for some rural — urban pairs the UHI effect would be greater in the rural location.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the demographics of eastern Europe have been shifting — populations across the region have become more urban and agricultural land use has declined dramatically.

And, at the same time, hasn't the world's urban population, and the size of cities, increased by an even larger percentage since 1967?

And since the majority of the urban Indian population fall in this category, we see more and more people opting for child plans every day.

Indiana's urban communities have been growing faster than its rural populations since 2009, and the less spread out residents are, the better the chance for car crashes.