Sentences with phrase «terms of population growth»

Since then, the city of Birmingham, Al has seen an upward trend in terms of its population growth.

Not exact matches

Of particular concern, working - age population growth is running at just a third of the long - term average, meaning the current housing boom lacks the robust demographic underpinnings seen in previous cycleOf particular concern, working - age population growth is running at just a third of the long - term average, meaning the current housing boom lacks the robust demographic underpinnings seen in previous cycleof the long - term average, meaning the current housing boom lacks the robust demographic underpinnings seen in previous cycles.

And India and Indonesia, in particular, are key markets for Google — India recently displaced the US to become the second - largest smartphone market in the world in terms of shipments and still has plenty of room for growth; in Indonesia, internet usage is poised to grow, as only 25 % of the country's population currently uses the internet.

«We believe that these two markets, with a combined population of approximately 27 million people and strong economic bases in the technology, media and entertainment industries, serve as an excellent platform for long - term growth,» Virgin America said in its SEC filing.

With another major upswing in the terms of trade unlikely and the working - age share of our population having peaked as the population ages, improving productivity will be key to growth in our national income.

Of the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquOf the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquof commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquof potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.»

These concerns have come about due to high growth rates, strong labor markets, and apparently high rates of price growth in products.Long term growth is usually attributed to population growth, growth of capital stock and technological innovations.

Had the Liberals, after 2000, held spending growth to a rate sufficient to cover increases in population and inflation — that is, had they held spending constant in real per capita terms — they would have left the Tories with a budget of $ 148 billion in fiscal 2006, instead of the $ 175 billion it turned out to be.

And with the inevitable population growth ahead of us, I want us to always be mindful and forward - thinking in terms of impact on the natural environment.

Countries with rising oil production, such as Iraq and Libya, or large populations, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are attracting the interest of bankers seeking to support growth opportunities in the medium term.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

«For Asia, the main story is the economic growth in China, the largest country in the world in terms of population.

Shane McIntyre, national director of rural and agribusiness at Colliers International, said there were numerous factors that would «ensure the future of beef in the medium term» including an insatiable global appetite for protein, population growth and a wealthier world.

To deliver this self - optimising performance and increased long - term value, it combines intelligent automation with innovative technologies of connected machines and data - analytics management, leading to optimised production and maintenance services.Consumer preferences are broadening and overall demand is increasing due to unprecedented population growth, increased consumer spending power and growing demand for personalisation of products in terms of design and taste.

There's probably no subset of the population for whom calcium consumption is more important, given that women's long - term bone strength is dependent, in part, upon calcium consumption during these exact years of critical growth.

Focusing on economic growth in a country where most of the population remains desperately poor can be an effective way to demonstrate the government's worthiness; but it must be economic growth with long term prospects — not just quick cash.

The proposal originated as part of Bloomberg's long - term PlaNYC, an effort to prepare the city for population growth and environmental distress.

Pierina Ana Sanchez, a former City Council staffer and White House intern who now works at the Regional Plan Association, noted some of the substantial gains the Bronx has achieved in terms of population and economic growth.

«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.

The growth imperative — that is, the idea of New York as an infinitely expanding entity in terms of its population, economy and relations with the land — drove relentless development at the expense of the sea.

The State of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate effects of climate change, although the longer - term influence of population growth on climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.

In Mexico, figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) indicate that in 2010 there was a population of 32.5 million children from 0 to 14 years old that, in relative terms, represent 29 percent of the total population of which at least three in 10 children have Stunted Growth syndrome, some cases are solved by correcting lifestyle habits as healthy eating, sleeping and physical activity, but others require specialized care.

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

While the world's human population currently grows at an average rate of 1 percent per year, earlier research has shown that long - term growth of the prehistoric human population beginning at the end of the Ice Age was just 0.04 percent annually.

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

And the long - term rise in the costs of global disasters is probably due mainly to socio - economic changes, such as population growth and development in vulnerable regions.

While concluding that population growth held steady overall at about 0.04 percent annually for thousands of years, the paper acknowledges that there were short - term fluctuations in human growth rates in certain regions lasting from a few hundred to 1,000 years.

Because most environmental challenges emerge on scales of decades and centuries, population growth packs a long - term wallop.

Recent increases in the lake's water use due to population growth and oil development are not currently an issue in terms of continued availability, Clark said.

Aditya Joshi, a researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Trust and an author on the paper, says, «Conservation of corridors and forest areas outside of the protected area network is critical for long - term demographic and genetic viability of many endangered species and future growth and recovery of tiger populations.»

«Combined with declining snowpack and population growth, this will likely threaten the long - term ability of the basin to meet its water allocation commitments to the seven basin states and to Mexico,» Famiglietti said.

How much population and development growth there will be is uncertain, so Georgescu and his team set a floor and a ceiling for urbanization projections up to the year 2050 based on available data from the Maricopa Association of Governments, the regional agency in charge of long - term planning.

Phenomenon could have long - term impact on population growth in urbanizing societies Reykjavik, February 7, 2008 — In a paper published today deCODE scientists establish a substantial and consistent positive correlation between the kinship of couples and the number of...

Specifically, this lesson is for teaching population problem and the issues that are arising economical for having such an exponential rate of growth in terms of the population.

In ecological terms, sustainable communities are those that are made up of many parts the growth of which develop with a synergistic function to benefit the future population growth of the groups of organisms found within.

Based on an individual growth model, the incremental velocities reflect the long - term developmental growth of students in a well - established reference population (n > 100,000).

The two part I chapters define terms from National Income Accounts: national income, capital, wealth, the capital to income ratio and growth of output, population, and per capita output.

The York County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing long - term human and animal services to residents of York County through programs that find permanent, loving homes for displaced and stray animals, help control animal population growth, investigate and prosecute cruelty offenders and educate the general public about animal wellness and safety.

I think population growth is huge issue for well - being in the developing world, but it is small in terms of energy consumption / climate change.

The scenarios presented in this book show how alternative policies of education expansion in the near term, mostly through their effect on the future educational attainment of young women, can significantly influence the medium to long term paths of population growth for individual countries and the world as a whole.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Evidently, concerns like long - term human wellbeing, biodiversity preservation and the integrity of Earth's body are momentarily at odds with powerful economic and political forces which relentlessly and unrealistically maintain an economic system marked by unrestricted and increasing per capita consumption, unbridled and expanding economic globalization, and continuous and rapid growth of the human population.

Putting that aside I can see a longer term centuries scale scenario where falling population growth and modeately falling consumption / gdp growth rates intersect to for a sustainable level, but still a decent level of technology and quality of life.

Of course, that is impossible to do immediately, and for the short term current carbon quotas must be largely based on a per capita measure, but over the longer term, that should change to a per hectare measure — which would give all countries significant incentive to reduce, and eventually reverse, their population growth.

The analytical report considers the implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change in terms of the contribution of urban populations (and centres) to human induced climate change.

However, ongoing population growth, increased demand and climate variability / change necessitate the better understanding of these systems, particularly in terms of their long - term trends.

Finally, in view of Mexico's climate ambitions as well as the forecast growth of the Mexican economy and population in coming decades, the IEA report encourages the government to incorporate energy and climate considerations into long - term urban development and transport plans.

But with the BRICSs on a growth trajectory and a population headed toward 9 billion souls, most of whom desire at least a European lifestyle, this will not happen in the near term (or happen significantly in the intermediate term).

Rather we act with the conviction that near - term global population stabilization — such as the United Nation's low - variant population projection, which shows the end of population growth just 40 years from now — can be achieved through the vigorous pursuit and realization of a progressive human rights agenda and will be a powerful contributor to solving today's most pressing ecological and social challenges.

People in the population growth lobby may well see the overwhelming of this country by millions of climate refugees as yet another business opportunity, particularly if they have investments in real estate, and not give a toss about the long term sustanability of this country.