Sentences with phrase «urban migration of»

That the Australian Government actively engage Indigenous Australians in post Kyoto negotiations, particularly in relation to the utilisation of the Kyoto mechanisms, international investment in carbon abatement, and issues around the urban migration of both internally displaced peoples and those that will require relocation in the region.

The Builders ($ 4,000 - $ 6,000) and Windows ($ 3,000 - $ 5,000) by Jacob Lawrence depict the great urban migration of the 1940s while various works by Romare Bearden take on Greek legends and folklore.

He said that the machine would also provide work opportunities for the unemployed youths in cocoa plantations, thereby stemming rural - urban migration of the people.

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Evidence of that reversal is still emerging, though Myers cites a revival of urban out - migration in 2013 and 2014, and recent data shows renewed growth in the suburbs.

Economic growth in China has long been premised on high levels of savings and investment, growth of manufacturing and exports, migration of low - productivity rural workers to higher - productivity urban jobs and integration of new technologies.

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

Urban migration has created cities of 20 million that are unlivable: Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Calcutta, Shanghai, and Cairo.

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

The old lussegubbar custom virtually disappeared with urban migration, and white - clad Lucias with their singing processions were considered a more acceptable, controlled form of celebration than the youthful carousals of the past.Stockholmproclaimed its first Lucia in 1927.

The old lussegubbar custom virtually disappeared with urban migration, and white - clad Lucias with their singing processions were considered a more acceptable, controlled form of celebration than the youthful carousals of the past.

In the first half of the 20th century, South American cities grew rapidly due to rural - urban migration.

Indeed, it was through chain migration, facilitated by kinship networks, that a significant population of Pakistanis ended up in urban centres in the UK in the first place.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

Catholic migration to rural areas was largely confined to the North and the West, and largely dates to the 19th century, after which further Catholic migration to the U.S. was largely to large urban areas, (like all other forms of immigration to the U.S).

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

Can your insights about the scaling laws of cities help us understand the impact of population growth and urban migration?

A recent scientific paper looking at Latin America lists «similar patterns of ecosystem recovery following rural - urban migration» in Patagonia, northwest Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Honduras and the montane deserts and Andean tundra ecosystems of Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.

China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years.

It's an oasis of green island in this urban sea around us and because of that, birds, especially on migration, are drawn to it.

The study also suggests that migration into urban regions with a high concentration of services may not necessarily lead to effective pathways to recovery.

And this represents but a small fraction of migration, since the bulk of that occurs within a given nation from rural to urban areas.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers.»

Timeline of events leading up to the civil uprising in March 2011, along with a graph showing the net migration of displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees into urban areas (in millions) since 2005.

As the Chinese government gradually relaxed its control over urban migration — by loosening the restrictions of the 1958 Hukou System, which afforded social benefits only to those who could prove identification from the local province — more and more individuals have taken advantage of new economic opportunities by migrating to cities.

After previously looking at population and urban to rural migration, pupils are now guided through some of the issues of urbanisation by looking at Dharavi!

Ultimately as rural areas get re-vitalized through locally appropriate development initiatives, rural - urban migration which today seems inexorable, would also slow down and may even get reversed... as has happened with dozens of villages in India.

Thus, the goal of BIA education appears to direct students toward migration into a city while at the same time it fails to «prepare students academically, socially, physchologically, or vocationally for urban life.

People inevitably remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, which heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union — even though Tiananmen Square came first (just months earlier, in Jun - 1989), basically forcing an acceleration of China's rural - urban migration & its transition to a capitalist economy (thereby relegating communism to a mere system of political control).

-- Demographics: German population growth is broadly neutral, but is experiencing pronounced trends in favour of urban migration, smaller households & increasing floor size per capita.

One of Pakistan's most influential contemporary artists, Naiza Khan (born 1968) captures the experience of living and working in Karachi, where everyday life is affected by natural disaster, urban migration and political struggle.

Throughout her career, Leonard has worked with themes such as the history of photography, gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement and the urban landscape.

Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as Los Angeles» housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, Los Angeles» urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility.

After researching San Francisco in the fall of 2011, Lin developed a series of site - specific performances that explore the urban histories of migration and immigration, with particular focus on their political implications.

The concept of liminality; the liminal city and its people, lies at the core of Kohler's work, which explores migration, marginalization and displacement in the urban landscape of post-Apartheid South Africa.

Through a repurposing of urban detritus, this New York — based artist explores the semiotics of politics, economics, labor, and migration in his sculptural installations.

Skateboarding, punk music, and graffiti culture brought about a keen awareness of how urban environments are influenced by politics, national identity, migration and the legacies of war.

The relocation and migration of people between land areas, physical movement, and the bodily experience of architecture in urban surroundings frequently occurs.

Her Video works and Installations that evolve around the subjects of migration, urban development, gender, questions of (auto --RRB- biographical and identity were widely exhibited around the world.

A floor up is a selection of drawings, videos, and installations which continue the theme of flightless birds as a metaphor for rural - to - urban migration.

The landscape shows the reversal of urban to suburban migration patterns, an extreme concentration and stratification of wealth and power, marginalization and displacement of industry, and the emergent precarity of environmental catastrophe.

After completing her studies in media theory and social sciences at the University of Bologna and Santiago de Compostela, she has been involved in multiple research projects focusing on irregular migration via the Mediterranean Sea, and on mapping informal urban practices in Egypt, which she worked on in collaboration with the American University in Cairo and the Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research respectiurban practices in Egypt, which she worked on in collaboration with the American University in Cairo and the Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research respectiUrban Studies, Training and Environmental Research respectively.

7, 2015) that presents Lawrence's paintings in context with interpretations of the mass migration from the rural South to the urban North by other artists spanning generations and discplines, including literature, poetry, film and music.

Yu Gao, the China director for Landesa, a group working on land tenure issues, focused on the lack of what he called «social infrastructure» in China — mechanisms to protect the rights of those on the move in the country's great urban migration.

Given the multiple drivers of migration (Black et al., 2011a and b) and the complex interactions which mediate migratory decision - making by individual or households (Raleigh, 2008; McLeman and Smit, 2006; Kniveton et al., 2011; Black et al., 2011a and b), the projection of the effects of climate change on intra-rural and rural - to - urban migration remains a major challenge.

Rural - urban migration is becoming one of the most obvious factors induced by climate change, which is profoundly changing the society as whole in Pakistan.

Given the pattern of migration to the suburbs and away from the large cities, small towns and countryside any large grid cell analysis claiming to capture the urban heat effect has to be nonsense.

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

Most countries in South, South East and East Asia are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to rapid economic growth and coastward migration of people into urban coastal areas together with high rates of anthropogenic subsidence (for example due to water extraction) in deltas where many of the densely populated areas are located.

Bangladeshi cities do not only have to face difficult climate conditions, but also increasing waves of urban migration and the problems associated with that.