Sentences with phrase «urbanization which»

The Villa is in a quiet location on the popular El Raso urbanization which is just 5 minutes drive from the town of Guardamar with its stunning beaches.

People everywhere, however, have increasingly embraced Western styles of architecture and urbanization which are resource - intense and often not adapted to local climates,» she said.

Not exact matches

But the hukou system often broke down when confronted with China's mass urbanization in recent decades, which saw hundreds of millions of migrant workers move into metropolises despite poor access to housing and social services.

As the quality of life between East and West slowly merges due to advances in technology, continued urbanization and changing demographics, opportunities across numerous industries will arise which we aim to point out and debate.

Revolutionary change, compression, and concentration which prepared the way for even greater change, industrialization, urbanization, ascension in world power, tremendous growth in population — these were the predominant characteristics of those forty years.

Urbanization has called forth two types of reaction in Protestantism: first, the church and the ministry have devised numerous means of reaching out to all kinds of people and groups in the cities; and second, attempts have been made to strengthen the inner fellowship of the local church, to bring about a genuine community in which each individual has a sense of being a member of the one body.

The «functions» for which theological schools are to prepare future clergy are determined by the expectations of the membership of «mainline» white Protestant churches, and in general that membership expects ministerial leadership to be «successful» and «efficient» (Brown, 55) in helping them to preserve their social status and cultural roles in a nation that is entering a future marked by unprecedented urbanization, technological change, and massive social planning (Kelly, 230 - 31).

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

«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.

After correcting for differences in nations» wealth (Gross Domestic Product), calorie consumption, levels of urbanization and of physical inactivity, which are all major contributors to obesity, sugar availability remained an important factor, contributing independently 13 %, while meat contributed another 13 % to obesity.

«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.

«With agriculture and urbanization, Canada has lost a huge portion of its wetlands, which have had a number of environmental impacts,» said Nandita Basu, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

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.

Globally, climate change and unchecked urbanization are creating conditions in which diseases emerge faster and spread farther.

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.

Adding to the challenge are the side effects of rapid economic development: air pollution, contaminated water, and encroaching urbanization, all of which threaten Chinese farmland.

On the densely populated eastern seaboard, urbanization appears to have favored mice and deer, which can host the ticks that transmit Lyme disease, and birds, which can carry West Nile virus.

«Aging populations and urbanization, which is often accompanied by unhealthy lifestyle factors, such as high sodium, fat and calorie diets and lack of physical activity, may play an important role in the epidemic of hypertension (high blood pressure) in low - and middle - income countries,» said study senior author Dr. Jiang He.

These data may explain why NCD rates are on the rise in a nation in which vegetarianism remains common despite urbanization.»

In particular, urbanization in China has uprooted the traditional community - based networks through which people meet their spouses and has thus made it more difficult for Chinese adults to find mates.

«In addition, there's a trend toward urbanization, particularly among baby boomers and millennials, which means smaller yards and less access to outdoors — again, driving the need for more indoor solutions.»

«The primary threat to the Key Largo woodrat,» explains a 1999 USFWS report (which, admittedly, includes feral cats among the «other threats associated with human encroachment»), «is habitat loss and fragmentation caused by increasing urbanization.»

Rapid population growth, increased urbanization and rising per capita income in emerging markets is driving two important trends, which in large measure, drive Zoetis» growth strategy:

Plus, a privileged climate throughout the year in addition to its Marina, urbanization of townhouses and villas inspired by the traditional architecture of the island and which constitute genuine terraces open to the sea, perfectly integrated into the environment of the island.

«This exhibition further highlights the artist's unique perspective through which he examines the global issues of urbanization from a distinct personal standpoint» said the museum space in a press release.

As fictions, but also as concrete experiments in influencing the society of which they are a product, these artworks discuss the social and political consequences of urbanization.

Liu Wei (born 1972, Beijing) is one of the most talented Chinese visual artists, widely known for his paintings, sculptures and installation works which explore contradictions of modern societies and the transformation of the urban landscape in developing cities in the post-Mao era of China's rapid urbanization.

Peter Kimm authored, Urbanization and Shelter: Policies and Strategies for Developing Countries, which was included in the book, The Urbanization Revolution that was published in 1998.

By utilizing recycled materials such as sculptural documents of memory, she seeks to personalize objects and allude to the lives of specific individuals, which are often neglected in the drive toward excessive urbanization, rapid modern development and the growing global economy.

«Symbolic Cities,» which Mater shot over three years, explores the impact of urbanization and economic change on the landscapes of his native Saudi Arabia through long - form photography and video.

Constructed Landscape explores the complex relationship between urban space, capitalist production and politics, particularly concerning the ways in which things, spaces, and ideas are transformed in the process of capitalist urbanization.

The city which mimic's an architectural model of a city or development is an impressive work that comments on our current trend towards urbanization.

Not only do they bring light to the less obvious ways in which urbanization has managed to infiltrate most every area of our...

Urbanization is likely to help more than hurt, and the United Nations put out its latest analysis on Tuesday showing that this year is the pivot point in human history in which we shift from being mainly rural to mainly urban.

I'm familiar with the corrections made to eliminate the effects of urbanization: The original observations are «massaged» using automated computer routines which are applied worldwide.

Tim Cook has recently joined the Paulson Institute's Council for Sustainable Urbanization, which aims to help China develop more sustainably.

The latest peer - reviewed paper which provides an overview the sources of bias and their removal (Menne et al., 2009 in press), including urbanization and nonstandard siting.

In addition, using the techniques of Karl et al. (1988), NCDC generated temperature files in which the biases introduced by urbanization effects were removed.

Just a simple experiment I did a while ago trying to show that urbanization (which can have even in my own yard) distinct effects on temperature.

They purport to address this issue in a companion paper on urbanization, which I will discuss in a forthcoming post in which I will discuss the large discrepancy between BEST and satellite data, a point not touched on in the articles themselves.

There have been 9 sets of studies which claim to have proved that urbanization bias is a negligible (or very minor) problem:

One of the groups using weather records to calculate global temperature trends has developed a computer program which they believe has removed the urbanization biases from their data.

They decided to develop a computer program which would automatically search through the weather station records and apply adjustments to remove any 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.

A weather station which we know is highly affected by urbanization bias, the Buenos Aires station we discussed in Section 2

This activity report is based on the Asia and the Pacific megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, which are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges.

The former is due in large part to emerging economies» growth and rapid urbanization, both of which are extremely energy intensive.

Dense with technology — only applies after the mid 19th century; the historic record, to which tony refers, probably has no distortion from technology (or urbanization, for that matter).

It especially explores links between climate change and hydrology, including impacts of climate change on: ecosystems and biodiversity, agriculture and food security, urbanization, land use and forestry, water supply and sanitation, health, infrastructure, and energy security which, in addition to climate, are strongly influenced by human interventions and actions.

The Dongjiang basin, which provides nearly 80 percent of Hong Kong's water supply, has suffered water shortages due to the region's increasing urbanization and industrialization.