Sentences with phrase «urban areas increasing»

If we really put the nuts and bolts in place, we can get close to 100 per cent of urban areas increasing the albedo of surfaces.»

Not exact matches

Despite Swann's success, the idea didn't really take off in urban areas in America until the 1980s, when rapidly increasing real - estate prices began shutting many out of homeownership, according to Reinventing Real Estate: The Community Land Trust as A Social Invention in Affordable Housing, by James Meehan.

For example, the way roads are laid out in newly developed areas can either accelerate or slow down run - off and the paving of lanes in our urban areas has lessened «permeability» and thus increased the likelihood of flooding.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

In China, which now has more than 6,000 Baby - Friendly Hospitals, exclusive breastfeeding in rural areas rose from 29 per cent in 1992 to 68 per cent in 1994; in urban areas, the increase was from 10 per cent to 48 per cent.

By exaggerating the economic benefits of road capacity increase and underestimating its negative effects, omission of induced traffic can result in overallocation of public money on road construction and correspondingly less focus on other ways of dealing with congestion and environmental problems in urban areas.

National planning policies coupled with government housing targets drive Local Planning Authorities to steadily increase the housing density within the currently designated urban areas.

The report suggested several reasons for the rural - urban disparity, including the increased transportation costs youth incur to travel to work or education in rural areas and the high cost to companies to deliver employment or training in less urban environments.

With this focus on electrified urban centres, allied to escalating costs of operating conventionally - fuelled cars are oil prices increase, rural areas may require some further action to resolve mounting personal transport challenges.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

The final bit of evidence was that seats that contained a larger proportion of young people did see their turnout rise more at the election... though as Chris Prosser and the rest of the BES team ably explain in their paper, this is not necessarily the strong evidence you might think: seats with more young people tend to be urban and more diverse, so it's equally possible that urban areas in general saw a larger increase in turnout.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

«Much like the spread of human disease in populated areas, urban centers can foster increases in multiple disease types in wild animals,» said McGraw, senior author of the study.

«We have seen an increase of geese in many urban areas during the last several decades and it is certainly possible that the trend will continue,» Hagy says.

Gronke studied Oregon's motor - voter law, which enables people to register to vote when they apply for or update their driver's license, and found it increased participation by voters from both parties, in both rural and urban areas.

However, rapidly aging infrastructure, population growth, and increasing urbanization call into question current urban water management strategies, especially in the fast - growing urban areas in Asia and Africa.

«Because the number breeding in urban areas has increased (though still a small percentage of the overall UK population), people do not realise that the herring gull is disappearing from our coasts,» she says.

The increase in population size also seems to have levelled off in the Turku region, whereas the breeding population continues to grow outside large urban areas both in the coastal archipelago and on inland lakes.

Although bee abundance decreased with an increasing level of urbanization, the number of species present was at its peak in periurban areas, and 60 species — a considerable number — were found at the most urban site.

«Since immune response is the same across environments, we think the higher pathogen pressure in urban areas is due to increased rates of transmission,» Tarpy says.

The study also confirmed a finding that has been emerging: that water conservation measures that directly reduce irrigation, such as drought - tolerant landscaping, can have the unintended consequence of increasing temperatures in urban areas.

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 a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.

The researchers» analysis has shown that from 2000 to 2010, the urban land area in East - Southeast Asia increased by around 22 % from 155,000 to 189,000 km2.

More than 200 bodies a year turn up in the Sonoran, a number that has increased over the past decade as immigrants avoid urban areas and attempt to reach the United States by more remote routes, often through Arizona.

«With the very survival of the planet at stake, we hope leaders will be inspired to act — especially in urban areas where an increasing majority of the world's population lives.

This revival may be the worst yet, experts say, due to densely populated urban areas, global travel and increasing pesticide resistance — something to consider as the summer travel season gets underway.

«The increase is especially noticeable in urban centres, where there is less soil, unlike rural areas, to act as a dampener,» said Sharma.

Urban areas cover less than 1 percent of the globe (although that number is likely to increase in coming decades), and less than half of that area is roof - or road - top, amenable to whitening.

Other recommendations include building a peripheral canal to ferry some Sierra runoff around the delta, increasing the «groundwater banking» of water in underground aquifers, increasing a water transfer market to allow water rights holders to sell access to water, and stepping up efforts to conserve water in urban areas.

The researchers also found the urban areas experienced a huge increase in the number of «hotter than normal» nights — which actually decreased in the rural areas over the same period.

The top 12 also included three areas of environmental concern: air pollution by oxides of nitrogen and other combustion products; the increase in carbon dioxide levels causing global warming; and urban waste.

Global warming will bring increased summer heat waves nationwide that are especially harmful to low - income and minority populations in urban areas and the elderly, according to a new report by environmental and public health groups.

These risks will increase as people move to urban areas, which generally warm faster than their surroundings.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban populations.311, 303

«Children and adolescents who live in homeless shelters, are victims of abuse or neglect or live in urban or rural areas where access to high - quality food is difficult, are thought to be at increased risk for undernutrition.»

Imagine a world where the rooftops and pavements of every urban area are resurfaced to increase the reflection of the Sun's light rays.

The dangers only become more obvious and the need to increase the resilience of cities more urgent when you consider that 50 % of the world's populations now live in cities, and 1.5 million people are migrating to urban areas every week.

Urban areas are now competing with irrigated agriculture by demanding an increasing -LSB-...]

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

If you live in an urban area, there are increasing numbers of community - supported agriculture programs available that offer access to healthy, locally grown foods even if you live in the heart of the city.

She also finds that those whose marriage rates have increased the most are among the usual suspects of who benefit from a more coordinated market — educated men and women, those living in less urban areas, those not in the workforce and African Americans.

April 5, 2018 • And the number of sufferers is expected to increase, especially in lower - income countries as people in rural areas move to urban centers and adopt more sedentary lives.

And as you reach new areas of the urban landscape, you'll find these impediments to increase dramatically.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

More new sites will need to be allocated for educational use and increasing urban centre development and continuing changing demographics may also drive up pupil yields in areas where expansion opportunities are limited and new sites are rarely available.

The problem is also reaching outside urban areas and into suburban school districts, where large increases of minority immigration are occurring, said Gerald N. Tirozzi, executive director of the National Association for Secondary School Principals.

The number of private schools and educational options have increased in the urban areas in recent years, for example.

I hope to use what I am learning in HGSE to improve educational models in urban areas and increase the opportunities for excellent education offered to young people in low socioeconomic, urban communities.

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