Sentences with phrase «urban populations rose»

Only 2 percent of high school seniors know the significance of Brown vs. the Board of Education and only 4 percent of 8th graders could explain why urban populations rose and rural populations shrank over time.

In just eight years, the urban population rose by 50 percent, placing an untenable burden on resources and adding to social stresses, such as inadequate infrastructure and services, overcrowding, and unemployment.

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

BHP Billiton points out that, over the next 20 years, China's urban population is likely to increase by almost 250 - million people and the rising middle class will be looking to upgrade to «bigger and better apartments, sitting above more extensive underground car parks, which will demand steel - intensive building and renovation,» she asserts.

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.

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.

The increase in use of words like «choose,» «compete,» «private,» «autonomy» and «innovation» demonstrated a growing prevalence of individualistic values coinciding with sharp rises in urban population, household consumption and education levels.

Could growing crops on high - rise buildings feed growing urban populations, thereby sparing the need to cultivate more and more tracts of land?

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 whole region has an increasingly urban population, a growing middle - class, and rising disposable incomes — all of which fuels fast - growing consumer markets.

With the rise of urban areas and increase of the city - dwelling population, small breed dogs have become more popular than ever before.

Urban development, population explosion, environmental changes, socio - economic gaps, and the rising middle class in metropolitan centers in Africa redefine the structure of the city as it continuously evolves.

-- Given the continuing rise in urban population, reducing carbon emissions from transportation is considered a key factor in trying to diminish climate change problems caused by larger and larger cities.

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.

Urban stations are gradually contaminated over the decades as roads are paved, parking lots build, as energy use per capita rises, as populations increase in urban cenUrban stations are gradually contaminated over the decades as roads are paved, parking lots build, as energy use per capita rises, as populations increase in urban cenurban centers.

In this context, we develop national projections of the urban and non-urban coastal population on the basis of four environmental and socio - economic scenarios which account for sea - level rise (for the flood plain analysis), population distribution, trends in urbanisation and coastal population growth.

Which is why a new piece in Yale Environment 360 on efforts to rein in urban sprawl in Europe caught my eye: After going through a brief overview of the rise of new urbanism in Europe as a response to American - style suburban development and Corbusier - inspired high - rise housing blocks, author Bruce Stutz brings up an important observation about the character of EU sprawl: It has happened during a period of declining populations.

A rise in the number of reported floods in the UK over the past 129 years can be related to increased exposure, resulting from urban expansion and population growth, according to new research by the University of Southampton.

As more and more coastal cities face growing challenges ranging from rising sea levels to population density problems, more and more urban planners are switching to building unconventional means as a solution.

Suburban population growth, by itself, doesn't prove that demand for suburban living is increasing — just as rising urban prices, by themselves, don't prove that demand for urban living is increasing.

Organized in conjunction with Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC), Making Room explores how the rise of New York's single adult population, in addition to other shifting social, economic, and cultural demographics, is dramatically changing the landscape of urban living.

Our population is growing, our neighbourhoods are evolving, and our urban planning must rise to meet the needs of this new city.