Sentences with phrase «urbanized populations»

He took Jefferson's question about the fate of democracy in urbanized populations and translated it into the language of the country's most avoided neighborhoods and caused it to be writ large in our industrialized cities.

The first is an almost exclusive focus on basic household electricity access, often in remote areas, without attendant attention to urbanizing populations, industrializing economies, etc..

Africa, meanwhile, is projected to power its rapidly urbanizing population with abundant natural gas and hydroelectric energy, much more so than with solar or wind.

Not exact matches

As I noted, with continued growth in emerging markets, their populations are becoming increasingly urbanized.

According to the Census Bureau, 84 % of U.S. citizens live in Metropolitan Statistical Areas - defined as a region with at least one urbanized area of population 50,000 or more.

Today, Latin America is more urbanized than any other part of the world — 85 percent of its population will live in cities by 2025 — placing the region at the forefront of the fight to reduce food waste in the urban environment.

«As Asia's population continues to grow and to urbanize at unprecedented rates, food insecurity in the region could worsen unless action is taken now.

«In our colonial and pioneer days, most people raised their own food, but as our nation has become industrialized and urbanized, we find that now only 7 per cent of our population produces the food for our entire nation, and our consumers generally buy their food in stores.

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.

Already more than half the world's population is urbanized — a fraction, they said, that would surge to some two - thirds by midcentury if current projections hold true.

In rapidly urbanizing parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, cities are still being built to accommodate motorists, even where they represent a fraction of the urban population.

Phenomenon could have long - term impact on population growth in urbanizing societies Reykjavik, February 7, 2008 — In a paper published today deCODE scientists establish a substantial and consistent positive correlation between the kinship of couples and the number of...

More than 30 million people, especially those in urbanized environments, will reside within the Asian tiger mosquito range, and will be potentially subjected to high biting populations of this species and impending arboviral threats.

«Even in an urban environment, proximity to green spaces provides a much richer population of colonizing microbiota versus urbanized environments such as parking lots.»

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

Authorizes DOT to withhold grants to develop state safety oversight programs from states with programs deemed insufficient, including up to 5 % of a state's apportionment of formula public transportation grants for urbanized areas with a population under 200,000.

If a metropolitan planning organization for an urbanized area with a population of less than 200,000 that would otherwise be terminated under subparagraph (B), requests a probationary continuation before the termination of the metropolitan planning organization, the Secretary shall --

The Secretary shall apportion amounts to each State under paragraph (1) so that urbanized areas in that State receive an amount equal to the amount apportioned to that State multiplied by a ratio equal to the sum of the forecast population of all urbanized areas in that State divided by the total forecast population of that State.

About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.

Recent evolutionary history of cats parallels that of modern human populations, particularly the recently urbanized indigenous populations that have very high incidences of insulin resistance and diabetes.

What Legge meant by that, the University of Queensland summary of her findings explained, was that «in addition to strategic cat control in bushland areas,» where cats have already long been massacred as rapidly as they can be found, «there is a need to address feral cats in heavily urbanized areas where their population density could be 30 times higher than in natural environments.»

While Africa and Asia are urbanizing rapidly, the regions are still home to nearly 90 per cent of the world's rural population.

Gogs, given how birth rates have fallen rapidly in the last 50 years (at least, almost everywhere outside sub-Saharan Africa) as the world has become more developed and urbanized, wouldn't economic development also solve the population problem in the long run?

To adapt to a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years ago.

In addition, only 99 of the stations are highly urbanized (in terms of population and average night - light intensity).

We identified the most highly urbanized stations in terms of associated population and night - light brightness.

The United Nations projects India's population to continue to become more urbanized; about 45 % of the Indian population will live in urban areas by 2040, an increase of nearly 12 percentage points from 2015.

If two stations warm due to increasing populations and the 3rd does not, the 2 «urbanized» stations create a regional expectation for the assumed trend.

Even though most (99 %) of the Earth's surface is not urbanized, some 27 % of the Monthly Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN - M) temperature stations are located in cities having populations of more than 50,000.

The challenge of producing enough food to feed the increasingly urbanized and growing population is one of the impetuses behind Green in the City, a rooftop farm launched in 2015 by Lavi Kushelevich of the hydroponics company LivinGreen and the Dizengoff Center's sustainability department.

Confronting the risks posed by increasing global temperatures requires a deep understanding of energy and agricultural policy, the needs of urbanizing and industrializing populations, and non-climate environmental and public health risks.

Two new report suggest practical ways to ensure that rapidly urbanizing communities retain farmland to produce food for the local population.

In between, almost 80 percent of the population of Utah is urbanized with the rest of the state being almost uninhabited.

If the populations of the urbanized census - designated places were included with that of the city of Houma, the total would exceed 60,000 residents.