Sentences with phrase «urbanization at»

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Eunice Yoon looks at the challenges Beijing faces in urbanization, including road congestion and pollution.

«When you have that kind of manufacturing growth, what also happens is that you have rapid urbanization and growing middle classes at the lower end.

In early 2015, Ford CEO Fields was preparing to deliver a «change the world» — style speech at CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show, spanning urbanization, the middle class, air quality, and millennials.

And at the same time, for China, what business opportunities can urbanization offer in China?

This session will bring together experts and executives at the forefront of China's push for greener and cleaner urbanization, with a focus on opportunities for global business in China's green building sector.

The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

Her assessment is that as a result of globalization, the information age, urbanization, postmodernism, and a host of other factors, these sectors are beginning to swirl into a great confluence at the center, and that this new, emerging form of Christianity will embrace elements of each.

The extent of rapid industrialization and urbanization troubled many Americans, including editors at the CENTURY.

His work focuses at the interface of water and the economy, specializing in water reallocation and markets as responses to climate change, urbanization and sustainable development challenges.

Rapid urbanization and industrialization will keep China's coal consumption at record highs of around 4 billion tons per year by 2015.

«We have the unique opportunity now to plan for a coming explosion of urbanization in order to decrease pressure on ecosystems, improve the livelihoods of billions of people, and avoid the occurrence of major global environmental problems and disasters,» said Roberto Sanchez - Rodriguez, professor emeritus of environmental studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Some artifacts had hinted at violence, but the new evidence from Brak shows that conflict at the time of urbanization was at times appallingly brutal.

And the work is taking place at the nexus of rapid urbanization, widening consumer participation and ecological crisis — that is, in China.

And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.

According to Ted J. Case of the University of California at San Diego, although the ants reached southern California about 100 years ago, they have only recently become problematic — largely because urbanization has made the area more attractive to them.

Although bee abundance decreased with an increasing level of urbanization, the number of species present was at its peak in periurban areas, and 60 species — a considerable number — were found at the most urban site.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

Previously, warming from land - use changes had been inferred from various measures of urbanization, including population counts and satellite measures of light at night.

They estimated that land - use changes in the continental United States since the 1960s have resulted in a rise in the mean surface temperature of 0.25 degree Fahrenheit, a figure Kalnay says «is at least twice as high as previous estimates based on urbanization alone.»

The authors looked at human pressure over time using the updated global Human Footprint criteria, which includes roads, agriculture, urbanization and industrial infrastructure, along with forest loss.

«Urbanization can lead to loss or extirpation of species entirely from a region, through habitat loss and pressure from non-native species,» says Dennis Skultety, a GIS / GPS specialist with the Illinois Natural History Survey at U of I, and the lead author on the study.

«What we saw was that urbanization - induced warming is just as important as greenhouse gas - induced climate change,» said Matei Georgescu, an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University.

«Moreover, our estimate of 0.27 C mean surface warming per century due to land - use changes is at least twice as high as previous estimates based on urbanization alone7, 8.»

Researchers looked at the correlation between sugar availability and diabetes in 175 countries during the last ten years and controlled for such factors as obesity, calories consumed, diet, economic development, activity level, urbanization, tobacco and alcohol use, and aging.

On the non-governmental side, the Sustainable Cities Program at Energy Foundation China focuses on reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systems.

Situated in the urbanization of Cala Galdana with supermarkets and restaurants at only about 200 m.

It is located in the urbanization of Matagorda, connects with the Beach Guacimeta at the beginning of the airport and ends in Playa de Los Pocillos.

It reflects on the relationships between modernity, urbanization, architecture and design, while probing the state of human existence through the lenses of politics, society and anthropology, a theme that has long been at the core of his practice.

But Los Angeles is making an attempt at urbanization, at feeling like a much denser city, and rapid gentrification has followed.

Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end - of - the world predictions — from global warming and waste to post-peak oil energy crises and uncontrolled world urbanization — architects and urbanists find themselves once more at a crossroad, fertile for visionary thinking.

The notable exception stands alone at one end of the «Vertical City» chamber: called Heliomorphic Chicago, the dozen - plus maquettes of stretched Chicago skyscrapers, designed by Charles Waldheim, the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Office for Urbanization and Siena Scarff Design, modify the city's preexisting towers to maximize their annual exposure to the sun — and thus the amount of solar energy they might capture.

The exhibition of Israel at the 2014 Venice Biennale, entitled «The UrbUrb» depicts the history of urbanization of the Country in the last century

Wu is a Taiwanese conceptual artist and associate professor at the National Kaohsiung Normal University, whose practice focuses on environmental issues and the effects of urbanization in Taiwan.

He has exhibited in «Modernization & Urbanization» at Marronnier Art Center, Seoul (2003); 3rd Fukuoka Art Triennale (2005), Equatorial Rhythms at Stenersenmuseet, Oslo (2007); Yokohama Triennale (2008); Jakarta Biennale XIII (2009); 10e Biennale de Lyon (2009), Kuandu Biennial (2010) and «The Tradition of the New» at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2010).

Located at the Palazzo Bembo, Fragments of an Urban Future answers to the most pressing issues facing megacities today — unprecedented urbanization, accelerating climate change, and the need for preservation of tropical biodiversity.

This rapid urbanization and development changes the face of the land, increasing flood risk at a time when, at least for the eastern half of the state, the risk of heavy downpours is also on the rise.

After all, Hansen et al, look at stations to account for things lke urbanization, and record length, etc... So FALSE DILEMMA.

Addendum: There's a lot of fascinating background on the city's growing pains, and the lessons Istanbul holds in an age of urbanization around the globe, at the Web site of the Urban Age conference held there last year.

If you want to see what a lost public - health opportunity looks like and don't mind experiencing a wave of frustration, please read «Dengue, Urbanization and Globalization: The Unholy Trinity of the 21st Century,» a chilling 2011 paper by Duane J. Gubler, professor and founding director of the emerging infectious disease program at the Duke - NUS Medical School in Singapore.

Unfortunately, «large scale systematic biases» from urbanization and landscape changes are precisely what's at issue and BEST's slicing methodology does not directly bear on this problem.

It is not possible to infer directly the value of perturbations by urbanization but at least it shows that the effect is important and not limited to big cities.

Looking at electrical rates in the 48 contiguous states, one might expect to see prices vary according to the amount of inexpensive hydropower or more expensive renewable power or other factors such as the temperature or level of urbanization.

As a result, their «urbanization bias - corrected» global temperature trend estimates was pretty much the same as the estimates of the other groups who didn't apply any urbanization bias corrections (you can see this by looking back at Figure 1, at the start of the essay).

Well, if you look at the bottom panels of Figure 32, you can see that most of the neighbours the program used are urban stations, i.e., the neighbours are also affected by urbanization bias.

In this essay, we summarise the main points of our three «Urbanization bias» papers, which we have submitted for peer review at the Open Peer Review Journal.It has been known since at least the 19th century that urban areas are warmer than rural areas.

Listing new challenges facing the humanitarian community, this technical document emphasizes that «climate change, population growth, rapid and unplanned urbanization, and food and water insecurity are leaving more and more people at risk of crisis.»

Look at North America, look at Europe, at Asia, Australia, Africa and the Poles and compare them to the urbanization in the image from APOD.