Sentences with phrase «urbanization lead»

In view of the many local studies that show exactly the opposite trend, it is very hard to imagine anything that could make increased urbanization lead to cooling.

Does urbanization lead to less energy use and lower CO 2 emissions?

For instance, we can see from Figure 24 that their program calculated that urbanization led to a net «cooling» during two periods — 1880s - 1890s and 1930s - 1960s.

People who consider human activity to have a direct impact on climate generally take the stance that increased urbanization leads to more sunlight being absorbed by the planet (making it warmer).

Not exact matches

Urbanization, population growth, and a rising middle class lead to greater meat consumption.

Jonathan has led numerous research efforts on global economic trends, including growth and productivity, urbanization, affordable housing, energy and sustainability, e-commerce, and the economic impact of the Internet, as well as on productivity growth and economic development in China and Asia.

As urbanization brought more and more people to the cities, local officials possessed of the late Victorian concern for cleanliness and scientific approaches to sanitation led technocrats to press city - dwellers towards these professionals through enforceable public health standards.

«This work makes us think that increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated with global climate change could lead to increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.

Despite the fact that Greece is the cradle of the Mediterranean diet, urbanization has led many Greeks to adopt a more Western diet over the past four decades, he said.

«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.

«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.

Lead author of the study Professor Annemarie Schneider, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, said: «Our results have shown that East - Southeast Asia is undergoing unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion.

«The 2018 EPI confirms that success with regard to sustainable development requires both economic progress that generates the resources to invest in environmental infrastructure and careful management of industrialization and urbanization that can lead to pollution that threatens both public health and ecosystems.»

Whether they will actually lead to a greater incidence of the disease will be complicated by factors including control measures, the availability of drugs, and even other indirect effects of climate change, such as population changes, migration and urbanization.

In addition to these policies, the development of oil and mineral resources led to rapid urbanization, which drew people from the rural areas to pursue jobs in larger cities.

«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.

Busy highways and growing urbanization in the area threaten pumas in Southern California and have led to their genetic decay, a UC Davis study found.

According to FTSE's research paper, emerging market economies are being driven into the forefront of global economic growth due to the emergence of new middle class, rapid urbanization, move from export - led to consumption - led growth, and emphasis on production of higher value products.

However, many also countered that the threat of urbanization had led many locals in Banaue to depart the province in search for a good city life.

Many of Leigh's subjects — the oystermen, shrimp boat crews, and residents of riverside hamlets — led a vanishing way of life as urbanization and industrialization became more prevalent across the South.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

Given Maue's long lead time in predicting today's heat blast, I reached out to him Monday afternoon for a chat on the role of human - driven climate change and the urbanization of the region in raising thermometers to new heights.

Q. Do wealth and urbanization always lead to reduced population rates?

He recently was a lead author of the IPCC, Working Group II, Urban Areas chapter (chapter 8) and a coordinating lead author of the US National Climate Assessment, Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Vulnerability chapter (chapter 11).

Changes in microclimate can also lead to non-climatic biases, but these are distinct from the urbanization bias problem.

One such premise revolved around a cause and effect relationship between urbanization causing difficulties in absorbing poor from rural areas, increased squatter settlements and poor infrastructure, and leading to a hotbed of political activity and a fertile ground for communist organizing.

They questioned the reliability of the National Climatic Data Center's homogenization adjustments, and suggested that a combination of poor station exposure, urbanization bias and unreliable homogenization adjustments had led to a spurious doubling of U.S. mean temperature trends over the period 1979 - 2008.

Rapid urbanization, poor transport management and maintenance is leading to deteriorating air quality in the Kathmandu Valley, where population more than doubled between 1995 - 96 and 2003 - 2004, the report said.

Comparison between urban and rural stations appears to lead to an underestimate of the strength of the urbanization influence.

Other Relevant Notes: On 18 February 2008, Professor Jones (Lead author of the 1990 Nature paper) sent me a manuscript, «Urbanization effects in large ‐ scale temperature records, with an emphasis on China» which was recently submitted to J. Geophysical Research for publication.

A new study in Nature Geoscience, conducted by scientists at Columbia, Rutgers, and South Dakota State universities, shows that in the main causes of deforestation in developing nations are no longer small - scale rural agriculture but rather increasing urbanization and expansion of export - led agriculture: Study lead author Ruth DeFries of Columbia University's Earth Institute:

«One can easily hypothesize that increasing population and urbanization in the United States has led to a commensurate increase in population at risk.

This is particularly true of the global data set, even though «urbanization has caused regional increases in temperature that exceed those measured on a global scale, leading to urban heat islands as much as 12 °C hotter than their surroundings».

Dense urbanization, with around 75 % living in urban areas in Europe, inherently leads to acute awareness of space limitations, road congestion and eco-degradation due to increased road transport emissions.