Sentences with phrase «urban population lives»

Half of Asia's urban population lives in these areas.

For example, 72 percent of the African urban population lives in informal settlements.

Recent research from the World Health Organization (WHO) found that more than 80 % of the world's urban population lives in areas where air quality regularly fails health standards.

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Over half the world's population is now aged under 30, with the same proportion living in an urban environment.

Carter attributes Pittsburgh's particular transformation to a genuine, forward - thinking public - private partnership, but one that also recognized the increasing importance of quality - of - life to urban populations.

This population will increasingly live in urban areas and have a rising middle class, both of which mean more meat consumption.

Compared with the general population, more entrepreneurs have a college education, and proportionally more live in urban areas.

Though a plant delivery service might work in a dense urban population, people who like gardening tend to live far outside city centres.

Unless I live in a vacuum of small, urban misfortunes that happen only to me so that the rest of the population may be spared, I can safely assume that most of you will know what it's like to stumble into the kitchen in the morning only to find out that you're out of coffee.

Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

Around the world, municipal governments are harnessing new technologies to accommodate booming populations and improve the quality of life for urban dwellers.

In many of the underdeveloped countries, a big part of the population lives outside of urban centers and has no easy access to a Banking infrastructure.

In North America, 82 per cent of the population lives in urban areas.

As the global population shifts to cities, solving urban problems represents the key to improving the lives of millions.

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

With half of the global population now living in urban areas, he said there were opportunities for retailers and foodservice operators in this emerging field.

Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.

Given that American society is one of the most urbanized in the world — 82 percent of Americans live in cities or in the suburbs (a number on the rise)-- the slump in urban population support should be a wake - up call for the GOP to immediately change direction.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

About half of the African - American population in the United States lives in the South, and the extent of the ongoing economic, family and cross-migration ties between the South and urban African - American populations in large American cities like Chicago, is greatly under - appreciated.

This likely results from the living conditions - in urban areas, cooperative living is the rule due to population density.

There are still many countries in Africa where infrastructure and development is limited to the capital and a few urban centres, while the rest of the population lives in squalor without adequate access to essential social services.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

In 2014, 54 % of the world's population, or 3.9 billion people, lived in urban areas.

Fifty - four percent of the world's population — and around 80 percent of U.S. residents — live in urban areas.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissUrban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissurban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

Ultimately, this has led to a division in the urban population — with poor residents who can no longer afford to live in tsunami - safe locations on one side, and affluent residents on the other.

Its strategy seeks to suppress mosquito populations selectively, in and around urban areas, and so reduce disease where people live.

A local population of feral cats living in an urban area and using a common food source is sometimes called a feral cat colony.

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.

The cohort used in the study was compiled with data that would reflect a true - to - life 10,000 person population among urban, non-monogomous men who have sex with men, who were defined by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as «high - risk.»

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban sprawl is a growing problem — particularly in North America, where single - family homes and two - car garages are common.

A better understanding of how metropolitan areas evolve could prove useful, considering that two thirds of the world's population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050, notes David Levinson, a transportation engineer at the University of Minnesota.

The study also found the prevalence of AMD is higher among Chinese Americans as compared to the Chinese population living in urban / rural China, suggesting the influence of environmental or behavioral factors should be considered.

«The denser the urban area, the better the benefit,» Kalkstein said, pointing out that a city like New York with roughly 27,000 people per square mile could save many more lives with vegetation and albedo enhancement than Los Angeles with its 7,500 - people - per - square - mile population density.

«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.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

This evidence suggests that local Indus populations were already well adapted to living in varied and variable environmental conditions before the development of urban centers.

In the 1950s about one third of the world's population lived in cities, by the second decade of the new millennium this proportion had risen to about one half and it is projected that by 2050, almost three - quarters of us will live in urban, rather than rural or other, areas.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

It led to profound changes in society, including greater population densities, new diseases, poorer health, social inequality, urban living, and ultimately, the rise of ancient civilizations.

More than half of the world's population currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations projects another 2.5 billion people will move to cities by 2050.

More than half the world population now lives in cities, many migrating to urban centers from rural hinterlands, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

This translates into an average temperature rise of 4.3 C over land in the northern hemisphere where most of the world's population lives, and even more in urban areas.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

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.

According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress against the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water and sanitation, more than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones.