Sentences with phrase «urban land expansion»
The MCC study, entitled «Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands» and authored by Christopher Bren d'Amour and Felix Creutzig...
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Contrary to previous findings, the new results reveal that the rate of population change has grown much more rapidly than the expansion of urban land.
By explicitly measuring the urban density (persons per kilometre) change for each agglomeration, the researchers showed that, contrary to previous findings, urban growth has outpaced land expansion.
«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.
The rapid expansion in urban development comes almost all at the expense of cultivated and grazing land.
The real pressure for school expansion is in urban areas where the school sites are already overcrowded and additional land is expensive to acquire.
Changing land use and the expansion of urban areas are reducing water infiltration into the soil and increasing surface runoff.
Responding to the increasing interest in smart growth, the Urban Land Instituterecently launched SmartGrowth.net, developed as a comprehensive research and resource tool for anyone interested in the discussion of planned expansion in communities across the country and globally.
Ontario's Urban Intensification Act appears to be colliding head on with the Greenbelt expansion plans by intensifying growth near the greenbelt areas and at the same time shrinking available land.
It will explore the environmental, social and economic impacts of topics such as expansion of urban and suburban development, conversion of lands from one use to another and migration patterns.