Sentences with phrase «urban expansion»

Others see them as just the typical style of urban expansion for a giant state - run economy.

At the same time, it is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a high rate of deforestation and forest degradation due to rapid urban expansion.

The automobile was a major factor causing urban expansion through suburban development.

The last few decades have seen dramatic urban expansion as a result of both global population growth and the influx of rural migrants to cities.

Urban expansion coupled with land lost to climate change means growing more crops on less land.

The winner will help shape future of urban expansion, growth policies.

Ironically, a major factor causing urban expansion was the automobile.

Our coastal correction factors (a, b) were applied additionally to the derived rates to account for the assumptions that coastal population growth is higher than national population growth in general and that there is urban expansion from 2000 to 2060 into what has been categorised as non-urban areas in the year 2000.

I problem I have is that some of the few sites still classed as «good» may also be affected by urban expansion in the general vicinity.

Water shortages will threaten urban expansion in many parts of the country, resulting in developers being required to identify new water sources while producing developments that use much less water.

Rather than go stale, A&W has in recent years targeted millennial consumers instead of its traditional Baby Boomer crowd, undertaken an ambitious urban expansion and noisily advertised its efforts to improve food quality.

While urbanization in itself is not a problem, uncontrolled city growth can be a hazard to health, the economy and the environment if the ongoing urban expansion is not planned properly taking into account environmental, social and economic needs of the population as well as climate mitigation and adaptation.

To arrive at their results, researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison calculated the difference in size of urban areas, from 2000 to 2010, by closely scrutinizing maps of urban extent and urban expansion developed from MODIS 250m satellite data.

Our group here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison was recently awarded three years of NASA funding to develop global maps of urban expansion between 2000 and 2010.

Professor Schneider continued: «While there have been studies that have assessed urban expansion and urban population growth across large areas, this is the first study of its kind to use empirical maps and datasets for every settlement and population in the 17 - country region.

«Urban expansion on the scale the world is going to experience is going to require more land,» argued economist Paul Romer of New York University's Stern School of Business.

In that sense, The French Connection is a defining film of the»70s, unyielding in its depiction of an America hungover from the facile free love movement, still mired in the Vietnam War and the depravity of unmitigated urban expansion.

The last few decades have seen dramatic urban expansion as...

Humans have helped increase fire risk in a number of ways, and population growth and urban expansion into what was once forested terrain have played a part.

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Rapid urban expansion has turned the historic cities of Cairo and Istanbul into overcrowded, polluted, traffic - clogged mega-metropolises.

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A new study by scientists at the University of Southampton Tyndall Center for Climate Change Studies finds that population growth and urban expansion account for the reported increase in damaging floods in the UK over the past 129 years.

The fact that you couldn't get «there» from «here» curtailed urban expansion until post-World War II.

More than 400 programs in 62 countries invested in the natural ability of forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other ecosystems to ensure clean, reliable water supplies for cities and communities, and to combat threats from rapid urban expansion and agricultural pollution.

«The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

Additionally, urban expansion, mining, petroleum extraction, dams, and irresponsible timber production have all led to a massive loss of forestlands.

Lead author of the study Professor Annemarie Schneider, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, said: «Our results have shown that East - Southeast Asia is undergoing unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion.

Researchers have, for the first time, mapped the rapid urban expansion that has occurred across the whole of East - Southeast Asia in the last decade.

The forests along South America's Atlantic coast have been chopped down to make way for plantations and urban expansion; less than 10 percent now remains.

On average, population growth rates for large, middle - income countries, such as China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, were high (3.5 %) relative to their average rates of urban expansion (2.6 %).

A large enough number of such roofs could «completely offset warming due to urban expansion and even offset a percentage of future greenhouse warming over large regional scales,» says sustainability scientist Matei Georgescu at Arizona State University, who lead the research.

It is an Australian book about the experiences of people who have seen their towns [and] their birthplaces disappear because of progress, mining, urban expansion, and disaster.

Headlong presents the fourth and final performance in its series of River Charrettes, exploring Philadelphia's watershed and urban expansion

Palestinian artist Harb, who shuttles between Dubai and Rome, in his sculptural installation titled Unlimited Progress, presents the interplay between time and urban change in a fast - developing city such as Dubai, where large tracts of desert give way to urban expansion.

Nakahira and his colleagues questioned the process of photography and pushed the medium to reflect the rapid urban expansion and social upheaval sweeping across Japan.

Tiger forests are at risk from logging, conversion to agriculture, urban expansion, road construction, mining, fires and inadequate law enforcement.

Though global warming is a factor in Rio's rising air temperatures, urban expansion is at least partly responsible.

Between 1992 and 2012, humans were more responsible than natural causes for wildfires in the US, due to population growth, urban expansion and global warming.

The tragedy started when the city bought the land from Hooker Chemical for the grand sum of $ 1, ignoring warnings, and damaged the thick clay cap sealing the waste dump while developing the land for urban expansion.

Between 1950 and 1980, Detroit lost 500,000 trees to Dutch elm disease, urban expansion and attrition, according to Paul Bairley, director of Urban Forestry for The Greening of

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A rise in the number of reported floods in the UK over the past 129 years can be related to increased exposure, resulting from urban expansion and population growth, according to new research by the University of Southampton.

Brought on by a series of bank failures and devalued currency, the Panic of 1893 caused high unemployment for years and virtually stopped the country's urban expansion.