Sentences with phrase «urban populations expected»
With urban populations expected to continue growing, cities» exposure to climate change will only get worse unless they break away from this GHG - emitting status quo.
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«We expect countries with young populations, supportive regulations and fast mobile Internet speeds and planned migration to 5G to be best positioned,» says Graseck, adding that banks serving urban populations may have more latitude to consolidate branches than those focused on rural populations.
The renter population is expected to only get bigger in the next 15 years and will likely exceed new home owners by millions, according to a newly released report by the Urban Institute, «Headship and Homeownership: What Does the Future Hold?»
«The urban and historical data are so well - aligned that we can view scale insect populations in cities as a preview of what to expect elsewhere,» Youngsteadt adds.
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.
By mid-century, 80 percent of the world's population is expected to reside in urban centers.
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.
Although many other developments and technologies have come along to help us reproduce almost like rabbits, Laland argues that «if it were the case that humans were adapted to environments in the Pleistocene [epoch ending more than 10,000 years ago] but not the Holocene [modern era, which followed], you would expect human populations would have shrunk when they moved into urban environments.»
Having a clearer understanding of the evolution of metropolitan polycentricity could prove useful, Levinson says, especially considering that two thirds of the world's population is expected to be urban by the year 2050.
And as Woo CEO Sumesh Menon said in our recent interview, over 50 % of India's population is below the age of 25, and the country's urban population is expected to rise to 40 % by 2030.
The future of the world is unmistakably urban (UN estimates put 70 % of the world's population living in urban areas by 2050), so why do we still expect the worst about cities?
This increasing population is expected to gravitate towards the nation's urban hubs, creating an increased demand for condominium accommodations.
During the Idul Fitri holiday week, you can expect less traffic in Bali, since most of the non-Balinese urban population flees the island (a collective act locally referred to as mudik) to gather with their families at home in other parts of Indonesia.
Asia's urban population is set to soar from 1.9 billion in 2011 to 3.3 billion by 2050, a shift that is expected to place considerable strain on the continent's physical infrastructure — roads, energy, food and water resources, waste management capabilities — as well as the ability of leaders to manage this urbanisation effectively.
Over the next few decades, India's urban population is expected to increase significantly, from 377 million in 2011 to 590 million by 2030.
If urban heat islands significantly biased the temperature record, then you'd expect a global map of temperature change to have red spots where the population is concentrated.
With 54 percent of the world's population residing in urban areas — expected to increase to about 66 percent by 2050, according to the 2014 Revision of World Urbanization Prospect — vertical farming projects strive to expand production on and in buildings and vertical structures.
More than half of the global population is now concentrated in urban areas, and by 2060 two thirds of the expected population of 10 billion will live in cities.
By 2050, the global urban population is expected to increase by between 2.5 to 3 billion, corresponding to 64 % to 69 % of the world population.
Most of the projected increase in the world's population over the next several decades is expected to occur in urban centres of low - income regions.
Regional Vice President for South Asia Isabel Guerrero discusses how an expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty.
Washington DC, June 19, 2013 — An expected 2 °C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades threatens South Asia's dense urban populations with extreme heat, flooding, and disease and could trap millions of people in poverty across the region, according to a new scientific report released today by the World Bank Group.
More than half of the world's population now lives in cities; by 2040 the proportion of urbanites is expected to reach 70 percent, adding urgency to the urban heat island problem.
Meanwhile, the UN human settlements programme estimates that nearly 70 per cent of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2050, with most of the growth expected to take place in Asia.
«The pace of urbanization globally is unprecedented and this trend is expected to continue in the future with nearly 66 % * of the world's population predicted to be urban by 2050.
According to the United Nations, the world's urban population is expected to increase by 380 million people by 2020.
In two years, the organization expects the urban population to be a majority, even in developing countries.
The Province of Ontario has designated Brampton as an urban growth area and by 2031, the City's population is expected to grow to 725,000.
This aging segment of the population is expected to drive over one - half of urban consumption growth in advanced economies, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.
CityLab recently asked Myers what urban cities should do to offset the expected population dip, now that we have truly reached «peak millennial.»