Sentences with phrase «urban population growth»

But about 110.6 million people still lacked electricity in 2014, as urban population growth had offset access gains.

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.

Predicted urban population growth will compound the hazards, he said.

Richard Ballard and Steven Dring hatched the idea two years ago after lengthy debates about how to achieve a carbon - free economy and how to deal with the pressures of urban population growth.

While population growth in urban counties has clearly recovered from the housing bubble, during which urban counties lagged for many years and even lost population in 2006, the rebound in urban population growth was brief.

Not exact matches

That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

Urban areas accounted for only 20 % of the nation's population growth for the 12 months ended July 1, 2015, according to the latest Census Bureau estimates.

But despite the growth in number of cities and city populations, Hinman warns that many of these urban centers may not be ready to accommodate a burgeoning population.

Real estate investors liked North Carolina's biggest metropolis for its strong job and population growth, as well as its developed urban center.

Similarly, the growth in the Aboriginal population is much faster than the growth in the general population and prices experienced on reserves are significantly higher than in urban centers.

China has two main goals: 1) to ensure strong domestic economic growth to provide enough jobs for its 1.2 billion population which continuously migrates to urban centers from the countryside, and 2) to be taken seriously by the world.

Urban and regional planners develop land use plans and programs that help create communities, accommodate population growth, and revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

For most types of growth, the population density of a business owner's region (urban, rural, or suburban) didn't have any impact on their growth plans.

In particular, the acceleration of population growth in the Northeast in 2009 - 2011 and moment when urban growth surpassed suburban growth in 2011 look like reactions to a housing bubble that brought unsustainable growth to the suburbs and the Sunbelt.

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

To some degree their origin and growth coincided with the increase in the urban population, a feature of the thirteenth century, but that association was not necessarily responsible for their beginning and their popularity The two largest of the mendicant orders were the Franciscans and the Dominicans.

The National Population Commission (NPC) has put Nigeria's current population at 198 million people with urban population growing at an average annual growth rate...

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

The findings underscore the way legal policies — such as the growth of the U.S. prison population from the 1980s — can have a ripple effect in communities, says Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Washington, D.C. — based Urban Institute.

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.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

In Singapore, where dense urban structures result in the UHI phenomenon, rapid population growth and the expansion of city development are expected to further worsen the quality of urban life.

A statistical analysis of various available data sets for soil consumption and socio - economic development showed that urban sprawl and its impact on soil consumption can not be adequately explained by population growth alone.

«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.

In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by atmospheric scientists Logan Mitchell and John Lin report that suburban sprawl increases CO2 emissions more than similar population growth in a developed urban core.

«In the more urban area, there's population growth there, but it's in the mature part of the city, not associated with growth in CO2,» Mitchell says.

Disaster risk expert says intense population growth and urban coastal development have created a huge danger

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

Thedevelopment planningof cities, the spatial distribution of population and economic activities of the municipality and the territory under its influence should avoid and correct the distortions of urban growth and its negative effects on the environment.

A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, launched today at the UN in New York, reveals this is largely due to the growth and concentration of urban populations, particularly in vulnerable countries.

Shanghai, like the other big cities along China's coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural - to - urban migration generating extensive urban expansion.

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

With a population exceeding 4 million, Selangor is propelled by urban growth and commercialisation, evident in the large numbers of shopping centres, business complexes and industrial areas.

And in Cities: Departure and Deviation (opening Jan. 30), artist Norwood Viviano transforms population data into precise glass graphs that illustrate both urban growth and flight.

These and other works demonstrate the varied ways artists and designers of the period responded to a world transformed by industrialization, city population growth, and shifting social structures and political ideologies, forces that spawned both mechanized warfare and new forms of urban leisure.

«Wavelet analysis shows that this relative urban warming trend was primarily manifested in the form of multi - decadal and interseasonal cycles that are likely attributable to gradual increased winter heating in Ottawa (heat island effects) associated with population growth.

The combination of population growth and humanity's current transition to being an urban species is creating a building boom in cities within known earthquake zones.

With a population of 1.3 billion of which tens of millions stream each year from the countryside into the cities; a hypercaffeinated growth rate of 10 percent which is necessary to create jobs for all those urban arrivals; and greenhouse gas emissions now surpassing those of the United States would it be unfair to say that as goes China, so goes the world?

Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world's population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa, according to a new United Nations report launched today.

With an annual population growth rate of 6.5 % and one of the highest urban densities in the world, the 1.5 million people living in the Kathmandu Valley were clearly facing a serious and growing earthquake risk.

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.

Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of toxic wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology, urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.

My current work is on water - supply and food supply scarcity in the southwestern US and in Mexico due to the ongoing effects of record drought, record heat, declining annual runoff, and declining potable groundwater reserves, which together are threatening to render numerous large urban areas unable to support continuing growth, with some unable to continue to support current populations, such as those in Chihuahua, El Paso and Juarez, Las Vegas, Lubbock, Monterrey, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Tuscon, Yuma, among others.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, progress in closing the electricity access gap is not keeping pace with population growth in urban and rural areas.

Sequester CO2 in the deep ocean Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Limit urban sprawl Use animal feeds that reduce CH4 emissions by belching cows Reduce poverty Slow population growth Fig, p. 481

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

While rapid population growth in any urban centre provides major challenges for its local government, the need here is to develop the capacity of local governments to manage this with climate change adaptation in mind.

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.

The paper points out that urban form policies have a rather moderate impact as population growth and land consumption trends dominate the overall dynamics.