"Planned urbanization is required rather than the ad-hoc, unplanned urbanization that we have seen so far," said Shirish Sankhe, a McKinsey senior partner in India.
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"(Cities) need to move from unplanned urbanization to planned urbanization," said Loretta Hieber Girardet, chief of Asia-Pacific at the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Bangkok.
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"We are now seeing the urbanization wave headed through China, it is toward the latter part of its urbanization; And now it is headed for India, and then we will see it culminate in the big cities of sub-Saharan Africa," Hoornweg recently said to Voice Of America regarding current urbanization patterns.
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Urbanization is real — and it doesn't matter where you live.
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That is why we need a new vision for urbanization.
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Also, with urbanization, many young Yugurs have traveled for work.
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Rapid urbanization will further exacerbate resource scarcity and governance challenges.
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Insects are also losing their habitats to farming and urbanization.
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Zoom out: Urbanization is also yielding cities of unprecedented size.
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Other factors include, for example, poverty, urbanization, and alcohol consumption.
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Beijing also expects that this new urbanization will spawn a
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By that we mean urbanization is a trend that is secular, so it doesn't matter what happens in the short term, but if we look at a very long-term basis urbanization will continue.
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The Twin is all part of our comprehensive approach to urbanization.
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But he is optimistic, believing urbanization is intrinsically a good thing.
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There are some urbanization opportunities in Tokyo that we're interested in.
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With climate change and urbanization, it's important that agriculture can adapt.
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In the last decade, urbanization and gentrification have accelerated in Beijing.
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But liberalization, along with urbanization, also created unforeseen types of inequality.
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But, the industry is threatened due to urbanization in the country.
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Increased urbanization and population growth also exacerbate the spread of disease.
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Unplanned urbanization favors the transmission of dengue and Zika, experts say.
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"Reverse urbanization" is picking up as infrastructure improves in remote areas.
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Other factors include, for example, concentrations of poverty, urbanization, and alcohol consumption.
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Climate change, plus urbanization and changes in where human populations are concentrated.
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Creeping urbanization, agriculture, and vehicle mortality are all to blame in part.
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Here too, the environmental categories and the urbanization process need closer examination.
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Experts blame increases in international travel and urbanization on spreading the bugs.
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And problems with our infrastructure will only worsen due to growing urbanization.
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Urbanization in Istanbul has been a source of concern for many Turks.
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The map below shows the explosive urbanization in the mostly North China Plain.
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We hear much about two enormous U.S. and global trends — urbanization and aging.
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"What is happening ... is an increase of sprawling urbanization," Clos said on Thursday.
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"Smart cities provide a solution to many inevitable problems of urbanization," says Baichun.
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Xylem has benefited from increasing urbanization and industrialization worldwide, especially in emerging markets.
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Once abundant, the desert tortoise is being driven towards extinction by increasing urbanization.
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Other priority areas are household registration reform, urbanization and social welfare, it added.
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Rapid urbanization is changing people's values in ways never seen in the past.
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Urbanization risks Southern Asia is one of the wettest areas in the world.
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The urbanization rate rose 1.25 percentage points from a year earlier, it said.
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"China has more industrialization and urbanization to do, which needs energy," he said.
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The Roman Empire was the first widespread urbanization in Europe, the study noted.
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In London and other towns, urbanization and industrialization eventually squeezed out the cattle.
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But increasingly, they are threatened by climate change, urbanization and a growing population.
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But like many such Indian villages, it has been swallowed by encroaching urbanization.
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The biggest driver is habitat loss caused by humans for agriculture and urbanization.
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" According to Dalziel, "It's not necessarily that urbanization will make epidemics more severe.
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"A sort of global revolution in the way we think about urbanization," Berkowitz says.
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And in addition to that I think there's a significant urbanization that's taking place.
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Demand growth is driven by rising incomes, urbanization and population growth in developing countries.
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There are ways to compensate for urbanization trends, as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court showed.
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The swift urbanization of grasslands, forests, and farms was also reflected in the maps.
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Urbanization is a uniquely powerful economic theme that can spark many different investment ideas.
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The coming debate about infrastructure spending is a fight against diversity and against urbanization.
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UN DESA's Population Division said it has been issuing reports on urbanization since 1988.
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Gizmodo: You write about the shortage of housing in England due to rapid urbanization.
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"Places to catch insects are rare because of urbanization," Tajiri told Time in 22.
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Urbanization means more construction and reliance on heavy industry, not to mention increased traffic.
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Government spokesman and Ouattara loyalist Bruno Kone was moved to construction and urbanization minister.
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"Because of our urbanization, investing in unoccupied real estate is very exciting," he said.
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They're nostalgic and fearful about the growing urbanization of the city, the dehumanizing structures.
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There's the Pickle Index, which is used to measure the rate of China's urbanization.
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Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum said authorities had started demolishing 22 damaged buildings in Elazig.
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Urbanization and youth with cell phones made rapid organization of protests in cities possible.
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National urbanization goals aim to move 100 million more people into cities by 2020.
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What we're trying to do is take advantage of global trends, whether it's urbanization.
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Given multiple converging trends (urbanization, shared autonomous vehicles, etc.), Brattle says that could happen.
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"Gurgaon embodies all the aspirations of India's urbanization," says Danish photographer and architect Lars Mortensen.
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This ancient population was unevenly distributed across the central lowlands, with varying degrees of urbanization.
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However, it's likely their unprecedented urbanization is the fault of human development and habitat destruction.
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I think the danger is when sound increases quite suddenly, like areas of rapid urbanization.
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"More accommodative climates, increased rainfall, and urbanization" are among the reasons cited for the resurgence.
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It has certain structural advantages which include favorable demographics, increasing urbanization, and strong consumption trends.
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It's only with urbanization over the past couple of centuries that human environments changed drastically.
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Specifically, Valo is looking for businesses solving problems within climate change, urbanization, autonomy and mobility.
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"The Mediterranean diet is under threat by urbanization and globalization," Must wrote in an email.
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Like other parts of the continent, Malawi has a fast-growing population and rapid urbanization.
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" He added, "Meanwhile, it is also for accelerating the urbanization and construction of Larung Town.
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Insecure property rights, say analysts, can threaten to undermine the benefits of India's rapid urbanization.
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People are eating more meat, drinking more sugary drinks, and, thanks to urbanization, exercising less.
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Chinese efforts to spur urbanization and modernize farming may deprive them of their current home.
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What's new is that the sorting dynamic of urbanization now accounts for partisan sorting, too.
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Ironically, that urbanization is good, even crucial, for the survival of a human-populated planet.
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Urbanization and population expansion made it less likely to encounter animals in a natural habitat.
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It particularly cited the opportunities from the rise of the middle class and urbanization in Asia.
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"Resilience is a lower priority in Asian cities and urbanization is the higher priority," said Batten.
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"Everything we've heard about global urbanization turns out to be wrong," said lead researcher Lewis Dijkstra.
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The human footprint generally refers to land taken up by humans for urbanization and agricultural purposes.
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Some developers welcomed the move, saying the proposal is part and parcel of China's urbanization process.
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Her research focuses on 21st century civil infrastructure challenges posed by increased urbanization and hazard vulnerability.
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The board's staff pointed to a number of other issues, including drug use and increased urbanization.
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Researchers chose cities from all 48 states that varied widely in size, socioeconomic makeup, and urbanization.
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But now a shift is taking place with aging populations, declining household sizes and rapid urbanization.
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The unit is benefiting from aging populations and urbanization and increasing interest in health and wellness.
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Urbanization, poverty, overall crime, alcohol and drug use, and cultural forces are just a few examples.
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Moreover, China's urbanization and increasing consumer spending have fostered an environment where businesses are growing fast.
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Combine rapid urbanization with crumbling infrastructure, and you've got a tricky and expensive problem to solve.
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Probably more urbanization, too, but I can't keep track of everything, I'm just a little mouse!
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Urbanization: With the development of the modern American city came the rise of the department store.
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China also is investing heavily in 5G technology as part of the modernization and urbanization efforts.
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Why it matters: The scale and speed of urbanization in China has no parallel in human history.
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Around the world, cities are at the frontline of the battle to curb emissions, as urbanization surges.
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The legislation is also aimed at bringing some order into India's rapid, largely unplanned urbanization, experts say.
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Already limited supplies of fresh water in China's north are growing increasingly polluted from industry and urbanization.
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Today, everyone from city planners to the World Bank uses data to map the spread of urbanization.
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Modernization, with rapidly increasing globalization and urbanization, is also linked to anxiety about the future, Rubin says.
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The aim is to provide a model for what a new, more resilient urbanization might look like.
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"Historically the U.S. has been more suburban and now re-urbanization is changing the game," he argues.
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These advances were enabled not just by technological innovation in plumbing and electricity, but also by urbanization.
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With rapid urbanization, rising demand for hydropower and changing weather patterns, the situation is set to worsen.
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Colonization, conflicts and violence against indigenous people, globalization, and urbanization are the biggest factors for this decline.
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Rapid urbanization is happening throughout Asia and the Pacific regions, where 60% of the world already lives.
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Urbanization and an influx of migrant workers have also contributed to the prevalence of lynchings, experts said.
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He also cited rapid urbanization in many cities and towns for a breakdown in the social order.
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A combination of rapid population growth and global urbanization is straining a crucial, often overlooked material: sand.
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Themes of industrialization and urbanization, often symbolized by migrant workers, are not new to Chinese contemporary art.
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Virginia's rate of urbanization since 2900s was double the national rate, as its suburbs gained ethnic diversity.
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You have continued growth in consumption, urbanization, continually growing elderly population - all these point to more demand.
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They have wars, police forces, debates over urbanization, they spy on each other, and even have car shows.
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Around problems not related to urbanization would be drilling sites and oil rig sites in remote rural areas.
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But local governments, which will be hit hardest by the consequences of urbanization, are outpacing their federal counterpart.
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Urbanization usually creates a greater demand for charcoal, because people in cities don't have easy access to firewood.
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Power said continued urbanization and infrastructure spending in China would continue to support iron ore and steel demand.
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About a third of the world's soils are degraded because of soil erosion, contamination, urbanization and other issues.
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With rapid urbanization, more than two-thirds of people will live in cities by 2050, the U.N. projects.
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But intensive farming and urbanization have reduced the amount of readily available forage that bees need to thrive.
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"Extreme Cities" examines the intersection of climate change and urbanization, and some of the challenges and contradictions involved.
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Climate change, urbanization, and changes in human populations have driven many beloved species to the brink of extinction.
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His work directly addresses the problems of rapid urbanization and the sudden advent of megacities in developing countries.
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Experts from Egypt, India and Britain said the pace of urbanization could leave behind vulnerable girls and women.
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But rapid urbanization is leading more young people to have their first sexual experiences earlier, health officials say.
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Such a move would once have been unthinkable for a nation that considers urbanization a ticket to prosperity.
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Previous studies have pointed to population growth, urbanization and migration as drivers of disaster risk in the future.
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Many advocates suggest that the decreasing connection to nature accompanying urbanization may have more drastic consequences than anticipated.
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Yes, there is already a trend toward urbanization, but the density of cities generally declines as they grow.
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Urbanization, dislocation and other economic changes are happening faster than the government's prevention and relief measures can adapt.
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"Moi, un Noir" captures the ravages of urbanization and cultural imperialism, the physical and mental toll of poverty.
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When this milieu is disrupted, as in migration or urbanization, there is often an increased need for vigilance.
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The country's rapid urbanization has led to groups of villages' being razed to make way for high-rises.
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Population growth, industrialization, urbanization and an increase in water consumption have threatened our freshwater sources significantly, research shows.
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Traditionally scientists have argued that vegetation and urbanization levels are the primary factors that influence land wind speeds.
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Monsoons and flooding are becoming more difficult to predict as urbanization and climate change impact the country's landscape.
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It's not just chlamydia; dogs, loss of habitat, rapid urbanization and deaths from vehicles are also killing koalas.
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FRANKLY, THEY'RE BENEFITING FROMTHE SAME THING THAT THE AEROSPACE BENEFITS FROM, WHICH IS A GROWING MIDDLECLASS, GROWING URBANIZATION.
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We need to preserve open spaces, sky courts, sky gardens, replenishing the loss of those spaces through urbanization.
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But in spite of modernization, urbanization and the persecution of religions under former Communist governments, sprinkling has survived.
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Other predicted shifts that were taken into account when designing the vehicle also include connectivity, urbanization, and migration.
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By 2025, 85 percent of the U.S. population will live in cities and urbanization will continue to accelerate worldwide.
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Loh: Our businesses are very focused on long term trends because we are a solution provider for sustainable urbanization.
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But if you look at the group, today we, Keppel, see ourselves as a solution provider for sustainable urbanization.
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For most of history, ecological change occurred relatively slowly — until humans sped up the process with industrialization and urbanization.
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" That said, he is optimistic about the efforts seen in Dakar, which could become "a model of African urbanization.
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But the hinterland has been catching up fast, transformed by industrialization and rapid urbanization in the last 10 years.
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Governments should plan for risks to water supplies from drought, rising temperatures, flooding, population growth and urbanization, Scharp said.
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As agrarian life gave way to creeping urbanization and industrialization, the voices of Social Darwinism sounded the softness alarm.
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The World Monuments Watch includes 2503 at-risk sites facing encroaching urbanization, political turmoil, natural disaster, and violent conflicts.
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According to Zoo Atlanta keeper Jen Webb, the wild giant panda is endangered because urbanization is destroying its habitat.
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"UNESCO'S committee for world legacy has been warning since 2003 about negative consequences of this excessive urbanization," she said.
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Experts largely blamed the disaster on rapid urbanization driving residents to claim trees and land to build new homes.
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But officials say demand has outstripped supply due to rapid urbanization, resulting in a shortage of 2.1 million homes.
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The demand is driven by rapid urbanization, with people in cities leading busy lives and wanting convenience, Haddad says.
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The developing world is witnessing rapid urbanization, with more than half of the world's population now living in cities.
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For example, Virginia's rate of urbanization since 1970s was double the national rate, as its suburbs gained ethnic diversity.
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Still, the findings suggest that urbanization could make the flooding impacts of hurricanes worse, and in multiple different ways.
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They found that urbanization, shipping, and human activity will be the most relevant drivers of mosquito spread at first.
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It means more money for workers and increased urbanization, creating more jobs and an emerging middle class in turn.
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A growth in urbanization in Southeast will create new job opportunities in small/medium businesses, as evident in China.
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For example, Virginia's rate of urbanization since 85033s was double the national rate, as its suburbs gained ethnic diversity.
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If you look at the history of beer, you can understand stories related to immigration and industrialization and urbanization.
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As urbanization has helped its prey, female mountain lions appear to have relocated closer to people as a result.
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With urbanization still underway and income growth benign, Kwan said sectors from education to healthcare would continue to perform.
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There are other issues, including poverty, urbanization, drug-related violence, alcohol consumption, and a fairly low homicide solve rate.
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Queued up behind China, other fast-growing developing countries with large populations are embarking on the same urbanization process.
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As they pursue the same path towards greater urbanization, their per capita energy consumption is set to increase substantially.
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Queued up behind China, other fast-growing developing countries with large populations are embarking on the same urbanization process.
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As they pursue the same path towards greater urbanization, their per capita energy consumption is set to increase substantially.
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I think it's connected to urbanization, connected to the fact that democracy is what people are coming to expect.
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Mass urbanization has caused populations the world over to reduce the amount of time they spend moving their bodies.
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Urbanization has led to the dwindling populations of provincial settlements as cities and their suburbs thrive and become overpopulated.
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Nairobi, Kenya's capital, is growing at a dizzying rate, and the rapid urbanization is gobbling up chunks of pastureland.
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Given greater global travel, urbanization, and antimicrobial resistance, the likelihood of far-flung pandemics is only going to increase.
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Urbanization — the historical shift of the planet's population to big cities — could result in a massive reduction in poverty.
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South Korea's urbanization is one reason why more than a 1,000 U.S. service members are unaccounted for, said McKeague.
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Despite rapid urbanization around the world, extreme poverty continues to be a largely rural phenomenon, where farming is king.
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As populations and urbanization continue to rise, many cities are turning to technology to help them manage resource constraints.
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Over the past four decades China's urbanization ratio has increased from less than 20 percent to nearly 60 percent.
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Mumbai may be wildly overcrowded, but India's overall urbanization rate is only 34 percent, compared with China's 59 percent.
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Countries in the Middle East are the most urbanized, but the fastest urbanization is occurring in Asia and Africa.
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With that wave of urbanization and economic development has come a new political chemistry in this conservative rural state.
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Urbanization and a fast-paced working environment make caregiving service one of the key services in our daily life.
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Those who write about, advocate for and choose to live in cities really do see more urbanization around them.
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According to WHO, environmental changes such as urbanization, crowding and deforestation bring populations into closer contact with wild animals.
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Amid talk of falling car ownership and rapid urbanization, automakers were on the lookout for the next big thing.
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Urbanization, which has favored the rise of dengue worldwide in recent years by amplifying breeding conditions, is another likely factor.
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In addition to Wang's current home of Shanghai, it's a commentary on the societal shift to modernity and urbanization worldwide.
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Rapid urbanization, a growing young population and limited public transportation options all add up to create a huge unmet demand.
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There's the monochromatic "Urbanization" pair, "Modern Nomad" with a high-meets-low design and "Neorganic" which is inspired by nature.
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De Vilder also highlighted trends of generally higher GDP growth, underpinned by relatively young populations, relatively low debt and urbanization.
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Virtually every human activity—agriculture, energy production, fishing, urbanization—is conspiring to destroy life on Earth as we know it.
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As urbanization, population growth and living standards increase throughout Asia and more vehicles crowd the roads, energy demand has surged.
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China's urbanization is a process that holds the greatest potential to stimulate internally-generated (rather than export-led) economic growth.
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Going forward, the agricultural industry is facing its "biggest challenge in 30 years because of China's rapid urbanization," Liu said.
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There are other factors contributing to Africa's favorable outlook, such as rapid urbanization and the economic impact of new technology.
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Housing built in many third-and fourth-tier cities was initially designed to absorb demand from the government's urbanization drive.
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Rapid urbanization across the continent has increased demand for charcoal; it has become the preferred way to cook in cities.
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Two decades ago, Wuzhen was one of many small towns across the country that were being hollowed out by urbanization.
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It wouldn't divide the country as much by region and religion, but more along the lines of urbanization and education.
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According to Mr. Jerven, rapid urbanization in Africa often leads to sprawling slums, low wages and legions of disenfranchised youth.
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With changes in climate patterns, as well as increasing urbanization-particularly along our coasts-flooding damages will increase — a lot.
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After the arcade games, comfy cottage interiors, and high-speed urbanization, he tackled the concrete slides shaped like zoo animals.
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And members of the global business elite attended standing-room-only sessions on sustainable energy and the future of urbanization.
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China's central government controls land supply and the rapid urbanization process has seen available construction land dwindle in recent years.
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"On the one hand you have mass urbanization and the challenges that brings, to affordability of housing," said Mr. Larrea.
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Now, as urbanization in the West encroaches on their remaining habitat, some are making audacious attempts to reclaim ceded lands.
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S.'s class in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada, and "Effects of Urbanization on Availability of Water" by Abby of Michigan.
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That could accelerate urbanization in those cities and stabilize China's property market, according to analysts from research firm Huaxi Securities.
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Increasing urbanization worldwide is aggravating sanitation issues, which in turn creates environmental degradation that pose a threat to public health.
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Compounding the problem is rapid urbanization in many Asian nations, with the pace of development often overtaking proper infrastructure planning.
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There's the whole idea of urbanization, there's the whole idea of millennials that want something more than just a job.
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They blame rapid urbanization, poor planning and a lack of government investment that has allowed the city's infrastructure to crumble.
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The exhibition's untitled centerpiece exhibits a more macroscopic tension that we must reckon with: the fight between urbanization and vegetation.
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But without the proper infrastructure to keep pace with and sustain such rapid development, urbanization can do more harm than good.
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This leaves few areas unaffected by human activities such as agriculture, commercial fishing, industrial pollution, and urbanization, according to the report.
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Design firm Sasaki is taking a progressive approach to one of the most practical concerns of increased urbanization: Sustainable food supply.
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The five megatrends on offer include technological breakthrough, demographic & social change, rapid urbanization, climate change & resource scarcity, and emerging global wealth.
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Urbanization has prompted national and local governments to realize the importance of leveraging technology to make cities as efficient as possible.
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With rapid urbanization, a shortage of affordable homes has spurred the growth of slums and informal settlements in cities across India.
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"In an age of climate uncertainty and rapid urbanization, there are merits to protecting indigenous agriculture and farmers' livelihoods," he said.
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The startup sees a value proposition for Africa based around urbanization, demographics and some of the unique characteristics of its platform.
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Increasing urbanization, with people moving into housing developments built in formerly remote regions with creeks and forests, contributes to rising numbers.
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"We are going to find resources for concrete actions and a new approach to urbanization," Chiti told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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This equates to one-third of the world's population carrying excess weight, fueled by urbanization, poor diets and reduced physical activity.
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"There's a huge change going on, mainly agricultural change and land for urbanization," said Kathy Willis, RBG Kew's director of science.
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Lower interest rates are boosting investments in real-estate and infrastructure, while population growth and urbanization are also supporting building projects.
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But insects are quickly losing their habitats to farmland and urbanization, and are threatened by farmers' use of pesticides as well.
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The first suite of rooms is, appropriately, devoted to the rapid urbanization and technological advancement that marked Yugoslavia's post-war history.
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Jakarta's vulnerability to floods - already exacerbated by population growth, urbanization and changing land use - rises with every centimeter the ground falls.
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Plague - known as the "Black Death" during the 14th century - is endemic in Madagascar, and linked to poverty and unplanned urbanization.
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American presidential candidates spent the better part of the 20th century promising to help family farmers in the face of urbanization.
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Like McGirr, Walker observes that the last 100-odd years of industrialization, urbanization and purported progress have been hell on sleep.
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There's a fear of urbanization, because that's where you get a lot of the problems — the crime, the congestion, the overregulation.
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Urbanization and growing populations have also added to this burden, but about three-quarters of this reactive nitrogen comes from agriculture.
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What they did: The paper in Nature Sustainability looks at China's urbanization trends and the emissions increases that come with it.
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"The urbanization rate is so high that this agricultural land would eventually be taken over by unplanned real estate," she said.
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So much of contemporary cultural production and consumption takes place in urban settings, and, globally, the pace of urbanization is accelerating.
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With population increase and urbanization, we are losing sight of those open spaces that once allowed us to have a coffee.
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The fact that you're talking about a 300-year-long trend in urbanization isn't going to give you an optimistic story.
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Urgent urbanization after the world wars resulted in homogeneous scenery in every corner of Japan, from small towns to metropolitan areas.
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Apart from rising global temperatures, the report cited rural depopulation and chaotic urbanization as being responsible for the worsening of wildfires.
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The show tracks Hatakeyama's exploration of the relationship between the natural world and urbanization, shot over the course of three decades.
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Despite rapid urbanization and economic growth in recent years, the female labor-force participation rate remains among the lowest in the world.
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We must think regionally, and effectively strategize how to fight back against the seemingly endless technologization, urbanization, and industrialization happening around us.
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Cities and towns have been around for thousands of years, but the growth of urbanization has been astonishing over the past century.
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Urbanization, as well as calorie intake of oils, fats and carbohydrates also appear to predict excessive weight in men and women alike.
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Deforestation, rapid urbanization and poaching of elephants for their ivory have all contributed to a dramatic decline in the wild elephant population.
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South Africa's fast urbanization may be one of the reasons for the rise in the consumption of processed foods and soft drinks.
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But amid rapid urbanization, rampant poverty and a cultural preference for concrete, this architectural legacy of the city's founding is fast disappearing.
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Urbanization of coastal areas is also contributing to the bacteria's growth, including in historically warmer waters where Vibrio has long been found.
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Population density, urbanization and any history of transmission of Dengue fever -- which spreads via the same mosquitoes -- were also taken into account.
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Rampant deforestation, wildlife trade, urbanization, and globalization are increasing our chances, year-by-year, of the next 'big one' making the jump.
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Large emerging economies such as India with faster population growth and lower rates of urbanization could help fill the gap, she said.
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In its commercial market outlook published in September, Boeing cited China's increasing urbanization and growing middle class as factors boosting travel demand.
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Rapid urbanization and poor city design has left China's cities prone to flooding, leaving important rain water useless and, at times, dangerous.
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Sachdev said using surveys allowed him to get details within trends that is not captured elsewhere, including urbanization and modernization in India.
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Growing urbanization and rising incomes, particularly in China and India, have boosted investor appetite for shopping malls, warehouses and other property assets.
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Displaced farmers could move to nearby cities, speeding up the already rapid rate of urbanization, or migrate to South Africa and Europe.
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Increased internet penetration, mass urbanization and growth in smartphone adoption, combined with rapid population growth, has made Africa very attractive to investors.
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But the company said in a news release that it expected population growth and urbanization to drive demand in the long term.
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Party officials believe that urbanization will raise the country's standard of living, thus boosting domestic consumption and rebalancing China's export-reliant economy.
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"I think the savage urbanization is first of all a choice and not an ineluctable consequence of human expansion," Limasse Five says.
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Meanwhile, with urbanization of life and more humans moving to live in cities, there will also be a workforce shortage on farms.
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Rapid urbanization and everything that comes with it — economic opportunity, social turmoil, environmental upheaval — is reaching nearly every corner of the globe.
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Why it matters: Urbanization can be a massive engine for economic growth — supplying labor, cutting transport costs and encouraging competition and collaboration.
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In other areas, wildlife is threatened by huge losses of natural lands because of the near-irreversible march of agriculture and urbanization.
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Increasing urbanization changed that, and the political support faded for a vast train network that reached into every corner of the land.
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For one thing, gun ownership is becoming less common over time, in part because of the urbanization and suburbanization of American society.
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The project refers to multiple forms of marginal or subliminal urbanization that occur in SubUrban areas, broadly defined as the urban periphery.
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In the drawings, he revisited the city, one remembered storefront at a time, even as urbanization, then war, were taking their toll.
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In the face of a warming planet and breakneck urbanization, a growing number of U.S. policymakers and citizens are asking that question.
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In the face of increasing urbanization and failing infrastructure, it is necessary that we adopt a transportation system centered around personal flight.
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With rapid urbanization becoming the norm in the next few decades, municipalities and other local entities will bear responsibility for infrastructure development.
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Researchers who study noise point out that the Industrial Revolution and urbanization ramped up the decibel levels in many of our communities.
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Deforestation, urbanization and farming also have reduced the quality of natural water, he added, while "uncontrolled growth" in population has increased demand.
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Preparedness will look different in every locale, because it depends on the physical environment, the political system, levels of urbanization, and more.
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As Vox's German Lopez writes, guns are a factor, but they're not the only one — there's also poverty, urbanization, and alcohol consumption.
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Habitat loss, along with heavy pesticide use, climate change and increasing urbanization are the main causes for declining bee populations, the study found.
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Currently, UNESCO considers 2300 World Heritage properties to be in danger of immediate destruction due to armed conflicts, natural disasters, or accelerated urbanization.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ROME — "Urbanization has always been a class phenomenon of some sort," David Harvey writes in Rebel Cities.
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Supplies are expected to shrink further due to droughts, rising temperatures, flooding, population growth and urbanization, the U.N. agency said in a report.
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The 25 sites on the list are facing various risks such as encroaching urbanization, political turmoil, natural disaster, and violent conflicts, among others.
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Indonesia is among the fastest-growing countries for energy consumption due to a steadily increasing population, economic development and a rise in urbanization.
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The sheer rapidity of forest loss in southeast China and massive urbanization of northeast China, represented by maroon and pink respectively, is astonishing.
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That means that urbanization, shipping, and adaptation among the mosquito species to new conditions all play a role in the spread of mosquitos.
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Experts say that the combination of a number of factors have ignited their rapid spread: climate change, urbanization, and easy access to travel.
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China has been looking to reform landholding rights for rural citizens for years as it promotes urbanization and more efficient, large-scale farms.
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"Huge drivers of urbanization, industrialization, et cetera, in some of these markets are going to drive the prospects for wealth creation," he added.
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An aging population and increased urbanization are set to dramatically change America's transport needs, and the government wants to do something about it.
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Many of them are also experiencing unprecedented urbanization, which experts say makes it vital that they improve their disaster preparedness and response capabilities.
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But this environmental concern is only compounded by other "human-induced threats" that authors enumerated, like dams, agriculture, estuary alteration, urbanization, and transportation.
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Rapid urbanization has led to destruction of natural habitats of wild animals forcing them to head to human settlements for food and shelter.
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You can watch how the trend of urbanization spreads across the planet over hundreds and hundreds of years, condensed into a few minutes.
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Forces of globalization, urbanization and technology are transforming the definition of a successful city and reshaping the global urban hierarchy in the process.
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Despite America's wealth of wild places, things like poverty, poor transportation, or urbanization make it hard for everyone to traverse the great outdoors.
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The politics of 2016 breaks entirely along lines of identity: first race or ethnicity, followed by gender, level of education, urbanization and age.
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Another conference, slated for December, will bring gardeners and researchers together to discuss how to regenerate soils that have been degraded by urbanization.
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The 19th century in Western Europe was a time of rapid industrialization, urbanization, and the increasing dominance of an urban, capitalist economic order.
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After 1850, as urbanization afforded young people the freedom to make their own decisions, love increasingly became a necessity for a successful marriage.
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Over generations, urbanization has sorted us on the traits — ethnicity, education level, personal temperament — that draw us toward cities or keep us away.
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Democrats have become the party of the multicultural city, Republicans the party of the monocultural country — the party of urbanization-resistant white people.
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But their conclusions are contradicted by other studies that have shown urbanization may lead to obesity, especially in children and low-income populations.
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Grow Zones are areas of land that are taken off the city's mowing schedule so they can grow and recover naturally from urbanization.
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Urbanization, chemically intensive mono-crop farming and an increasingly hot and dry climate conspire to destroy the biodiversity upon which wild pollinators depend.
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There now is a massive national and youth employment crisis that is further compounded by rising urbanization in cities without enough new jobs.
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Even if you look at the urbanization from agriculture, we weren't able to come up with stuff to keep people in the cornfields.
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Compounding these often-discussed challenges are the pressures of increased urbanization and population growth which will place added pressure on already strained systems.
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Prior to the urbanization, buildings in Vila Autodromo had ranged from cinder block houses to well-built homes next to the Jacarepaguá lagoon.
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Nigeria just became majority-urban in 2018, but urbanization in the West African giant will grow even more dramatically over the next decade.
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Thus, the problem is the result of an interplay of the real estate market, greedy officials and the rapid urbanization of cities like Beijing.
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A strong economy fuels urbanization and lifts rent, and can make it harder for lower-income minority families like Mr. Mitchell's to get by.
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WHO says the disease is spreading on account of decreased condom use, increased urbanization and travel, poor detection measures, and inadequate or failed treatments.
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Image: HBOWe keep hearing that this is the age of rapid urbanization: By 2050, 70 percent of the world's population will live in cities.
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"Here in Southeast Asia … we would consider it a hotpot because of the population growth, urbanization dynamics, the production of food," Lubroth told Reuters.
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The invasion of robots in the agriculture market may force countries in Africa to quickly urbanize, similar to China's urbanization period in the 1980s.
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If we can hold on into the next century, Mr. Walston said, urbanization could set up the conditions for that sort of recovery worldwide.
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The amnesty had brought 16.5 billion lira ($3.1 billion) in property taxes and registration fees into government coffers, the urbanization minister said in December.
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Then, they controlled for variations in national gross domestic product, calorie consumption, urbanization levels, and physical activity—all of which are contributors to obesity.
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In Asia, fast-developing economies and urbanization are driving huge investments in construction and infrastructure, offering chances to promote a circular economy, said Friedl.
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You can trace a lot of this concern with working class drinkers back to the 19th and 20th century, with mass industrialization and urbanization.
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The behavior of this mosquito and its urbanization have resulted in the rapid and wide geographic spread of Zika throughout Central and South America.
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Pakistan has the world's fourth-highest rate of water use, and two of the key factors for water stress are population growth and urbanization.
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This phenomenon has been accompanied by the spatial shift in the exodus of rural youth to urban dwellings, triggering massive urbanization and demographical shift.
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That's a concern because some 90 percent of urbanization through 2030 is expected to take place in Africa and Asia, according to the report.
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"Unless we tackle the development issue as a whole, the urbanization that is becoming a risk driver is not going to stop," she added.
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"With urbanization, where the big cities are and the population centers are, that's where we're starting to see an accelerator on growth," Frankiewicz said.
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Urbanization and deforestation had threatened civets and put them in closer contact with the horseshoe bat, which was shown to carry the SARS virus.
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In the '90s we had seen a lot of urbanization, and a lot of folks were starting to move away from their family homes.
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The urbanization is driven partly by high birthrates and a shrinking availability of land, creating an exodus of millions of Africans from rural areas.
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And scientists say we should expect them with more travel, trade, connectivity, urbanization, climate change, and ecological destruction, if we don't stop the drivers.
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The chair dangles in a gallery titled "Before and After Tiananmen," exploring themes of modernization and urbanization in the years around the 1989 massacre.
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According to the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board's 2019 report "A World At Risk," rapid urbanization can hasten the spread of disease during an outbreak.
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"Our society is rethinking what we've been doing over the last 2000 years — this rapid urbanization at the cost of all else," he said.
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"As society goes through demolition and urbanization, the biggest changes happen on the level of human relationships," said the Shanghai-based artist Chen Yun.
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In Asia, fast-developing economies and urbanization are driving huge investments in construction and infrastructure, offering chances to promote a circular economy, experts say.
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And the factors that are driving down fertility today, such as mass urbanization, greater wealth and more choices for women, are here to stay.
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Mixers aren't against urbanization, but they think that markets will also have to grow in rural areas, to meet poor people where they are.
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We are fast on track to becoming an urban species, and the issues of urbanization — pollution, transportation, waste management — will increase with that shift.
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With growing populations and greater urbanization taking place around the world, people are increasingly being forced to live in close proximity to major traffic arteries.
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The WHO attributes the increase in gonococcal infections to decreasing condom use, increased urbanization and travel, poor infection detection rates, and inadequate or failed treatment.
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China has pledged to resolve what it calls "urban sickness", or the pollution, congestion and overcrowding caused by rapid urbanization, that afflicts its biggest cities.
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And that's really around being an integrated provider of large place-making solutions and we focus on the urbanization of major cities around the world.
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Tropical diseases are spreading faster than ever before, owing to more long-distance travel, population growth and urbanization, lack of sanitation, and ineffective mosquito control.
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"Due to rapid and unplanned urbanization, the number [of people living in informal settlements] is estimated to double in the next fifteen years,"Arrighi said.
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But Lee was determined not to turn the island into a dreary concrete jungle, and so 'greening' went hand-in-hand with Singapore's urbanization progress.
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Major contributing factors to its rise include climate change, urbanization, poor sanitation control, according to Kym Blechynden, Regional Emergency Health Coordinator for IFRC Asia Pacific.
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"Part of the warming trend in Washington is due to urbanization, but the accumulating greenhouse gases are stacking the deck for such extremely warm weather."
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Similarly, the global "fintech" industry is at a positive inflection point, fueled by rapid urbanization, as well as favorable regulation and strong demand from millennials.
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The radical plans are aimed at combating the effects of urbanization, which is leaving some of Italy's most picturesque towns and villages deserted and derelict.
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Given the huge projected demand for air conditioning as poverty is reduced and urbanization accelerates, it's important to find ways to phase these compounds out.
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A small real-estate sector (circa 8 percent of the overall economy) and a high urbanization rate have created a housing deficit in the country.
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For years, experts have said that modern life has put us more at risk of a global outbreak, due to increased urbanization and population growth.
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Spanning 10 years, her stories on a rural farming community's transformation into a huge city is one of the definitive narratives of China's urbanization process.
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"Urbanization is a major driver of risk on this continent," said Michel Matera, senior urban specialist at the World Bank based in Maputo, the capital.
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Most topics for the forum listed on the event's website are broad and innocuous — global governance, technology, urbanization, climate, inclusion and finance and capital markets.
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But I suspect that Mr. Romer experienced something close to his own ideal Burn, gathering new data he'll use to advocate his vision of urbanization.
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Urbanization With 68% of humanity expected to live in urban areas by 2050, according to a 2018 UN report, urban expansion and innovation are vital.
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Brazilian cities underwent rapid and mostly unplanned urbanization in the last six decades, giving rise to vast shantytowns, erected haphazardly without adhering to building codes.
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Urbanization has always been associated with big innovations, and a number of researchers have suggested that the more densely people live, the greater the innovation.
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Using data from the United Nations' World Urbanization Prospects, which predicts population growth and urbanization rates through 2050 based on birth rates, mortality rates, and the current urban to rural ration in cities, researchers projected what the population levels would be in these cities in 2100 under three different possible schemes with varying levels of sustainability, reduction of inequality, and speed of technological development.
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The guidelines come two months after a high-level meeting to address some of the problems that have arisen as a result of China's rapid urbanization.
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Climate change and the globalization of food production, coupled with a rising world population and increasing urbanization, pose new challenges to food safety, the WHO said.
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"I'm still optimistic about the real estate industry, China is at a stage of development where we have not seen an end to urbanization," Lu said.
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Like many Asian countries, Indonesia is experiencing a rise in urbanization, population and economic growth and is scrambling to find ways to increase its power capacity.
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In the time it has taken to overturn the ruling, many other factors about China's population and economy have changed, most notably its level of urbanization.
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Where crime did increase, it wasn't always prohibition but other factors, like the swift urbanization that was occurring in the era, that were mostly to blame.
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Africa's tropical forests are being lost to industrial agriculture, logging, urbanization and more, a trend that is only expected to accelerate with population growth, experts say.
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According to the Wildland website, they have also acquired vast mountain areas in Romania to protect them from exploitation such as logging, resource extraction and urbanization.
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Such a platform could literally change lives in traditional communities, and perhaps even prevent or at least slow down the wrench of urbanization in developing countries.
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Urbanization is increasing with villagers flooding daily to South Africa's second biggest city to find jobs and better lives, increasing pressure for housing and expanding slums.
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Consumption is key for Indonesia, as well, with analysts citing substantial scope for urbanization and mortgage penetration and providing long-term growth options for many industries.
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With the explosion of urbanization around the world and developing economies asserting themselves in high profile ways, the stage is set for a global skyscraper boom.
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Smart Infrastructure will remain a "central part of the new core" for Siemens, Rebellius said, and would exploit trends like population growth, urbanization and artificial intelligence.
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With increased urbanization and "spatial planning which favors high building density and tight living areas," most new construction is "blocks of flats" next to public transportation.
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They expect to see Chinese urbanization rise towards 80%, moving some 400 million people from rural to urban areas, and buffeting an already growing middle class.
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Human activities, mainly those involving agriculture and urbanization, have destroyed or degraded topsoil, forests, and other natural vegetation and water resources nearly everywhere, the report found.
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It painted a picture where a lack of jobs, rapid urbanization and climate change could force millions to flee the continent seeking a better life overseas.
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New geoglyphs are still being discovered and can be hard to spot due to changes in the landscape, with natural erosion and urbanization breaking them up.
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SubUrbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape continues at the Museum of the Chinese in America (215 Centre Street, Chinatown, Manhattan) through March 27.
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Times Insider I visited the annual Nevada bacchanalia with Paul Romer, a Nobel-winning economist who has come to see it as a model for urbanization.
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Increasing urbanization and industrialization, pollution from trucks entering and exiting the city's port, the largest in the country, and contaminated waterways exacerbate the growing environmental crisis.
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Breakneck rates of industrialization and urbanization have left China with profound land and water shortages, as well as rising rates of desertification and serious pollution problems.
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"Urbanization," he wrote me, has become a major trend in the last decade or so, driven by the clustering of workers and firms in larger cities.
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"With Indonesia's rising middle class population, Travelio is well-positioned to serve the growing demand for temporary housing, urbanization and affordable living options," the startup said.
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Increasing incomes have allowed households to spend more on food, and urbanization has made it much easier for families to access better health care and education.
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However, that is still well below the average of 75% in the developed world, and "reverse urbanization" is picking up as infrastructure improves in remote areas.
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Urbanization is also on the mind of photographer Xing Danwen, who created her own maquettes, those specialized architectural dollhouse-like models used to sell luxury apartments.
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The effects of globalization, consumerism, and urbanization are at the core of the artist's work, from QR codes amidst desolate landscapes, to animals lost in concrete jungles.
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The research suggests that stricter gun control measures reduce gun deaths, although other variables — socioeconomic issues, alcohol consumption, and urbanization — can contribute to gun crime as well.
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The country's ambitious plans to support increasing urbanization — coupled with its dedication to going green — will create an abundance of sustainable investment opportunities in groundbreaking architectural design.
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China's economic growth is also going through a structural deceleration due to an aging population and is at the end of a long urbanization process, they added.
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Richard Kyambadde, an officer at the Ministry of Water and Environment, said wetlands are degrading fast in several parts of the country because of urbanization and agriculture.
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The continent's municipal solid waste generation, currently 125 million tonnes annually, is expected to double by 2025 due to changing purchasing habits and rapid urbanization, she added.
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The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said it aims to increase China's urbanization rate by at least 1 percentage point by the end of this year.
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Bringing these measures to the US may seem extreme, but it could be necessary as climate change and urbanization help spread mosquito-borne diseases to new regions.
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At the time of the initial investment, Icahn said he believed that increasing urbanization over the next five-to-ten years should continue the company's revenue growth.
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"China's urbanization process still has a long way to go, so the property market still has vast potential to develop further," the magazine quoted Chen as saying.
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"Rural populations have not been adequately represented: farmers, forest dwellers, indigenous and coastal communities - all suffer the consequences of uncontrolled urbanization," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The housing scheme has been widely trialed throughout Italy as rural towns attempt to revitalize their communities and economies that have suffered at the hands of urbanization.
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In fact, rapid globalization and urbanization is the main reason why Zika has been able to travel from Africa all the way to Central and South America.
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They said climate change, mobility, urbanization and a vaccine shortage had increased the risk of yellow fever globally and they called for a review of vaccination policies.
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As for the rest of Honeywell, Adamczyk said it will keep "high-growth businesses in six attractive industrial end markets" tied to energy, infrastructure, urbanization and safety.
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The country's low urbanization is partly due to the massive forced relocation of people to rural areas under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, according to historians.
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The report warns that higher levels of urbanization may force NATO interventions into densely populated cities, and that climate change may increase military activity in the Arctic.
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Mass urbanization is expected to continue, still not out of people's personal preferences but at the state's behest, by way of residency restrictions, evictions and forced relocations.
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So it was a combination of the two, and it looked not just at the impact of technology but of demographics, urbanization, growing political uncertainty. Mm-hmm.
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Anxieties over immigration, urbanization and the erosion of the cultural dominance of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism swelled even further in face of a new spirit of self-expression.
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According to the International Energy Agency, cement production could increase by as much as 23% in the next 30 years, in response to urbanization and population growth.
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Amid urbanization and industrialization, India's coasts have become dumping grounds for sewage, garbage and factory waste, even as they fight the rising threat of erosion and flooding.
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Evoqua has benefited from several global trends as a growing population, increasing levels of urbanization and more stringent regulations drive demand for cleaner and sustainable waste streams.
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Places where modest forestry gains were detected in China were often not targeted for afforestation, they wrote, because the land was in demand for agriculture or urbanization.
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It is an effect, say the hotel operators, of Japan's intensifying urbanization, and the fact that millennials cannot afford homes large enough to host their friends in.
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Other drivers of disease cited in the new report included the surge in international conflicts, the rise of weak states, increasing migration, the climate crisis, and urbanization.
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We view the company as an investment in infrastructure development that should benefit from the long-term global secular trends of population growth, urbanization and water scarcity.
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Danish efforts to industrialize cod fishing required concentrated populations rather than dispersed hunters — resulting in the forced relocation of Greenlanders, rapid urbanization and a restructured labor market.
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Danish efforts to industrialize cod fishing required concentrated populations rather than dispersed hunters — resulting in the forced relocation of Greenlanders, rapid urbanization and a restructured labor market.
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Rapid population growth, increasing urbanization and climate change have made it more difficult to supply water in Abidjan, and led to chronic shortages, residents and experts say.
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Since these jobs required much less physical work and offered a steady paycheck, millions seized the opportunity, resulting in urbanization and the domination of business over agriculture.
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This allowed for a huge amount of insight into how people behave toward their water resources—whether that's to do with religion, local industry, transportation, or urbanization.
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Lead study author Rob Cooke explained that human destruction of habitats, hunting, intensive farming, urbanization and global warming are all to blame, and there could be worrying consequences.
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ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Upset by the felling of many of Islamabad's trees – victims of rapid urbanization - the city's children are fighting back with a tree planting drive.
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With the advent of better transportation, exponentially increasing urbanization, unequal development, and rapidly evolving microbes and viruses, our largest, and perhaps most deadly, epidemics are still to come.
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In other words, if we're going to be able to handle the challenges presented by climate change-driven urbanization, we're going to have to radically rethink the city.
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Many millennials are also choosing to remain in the country's outlying provinces, shunning more expensive, larger cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, thanks to rapid industrialization and urbanization.
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Faced with this rapid urbanization and the pollution and congestion that comes with it, we have to admit that the model of the past is no longer tenable.
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The researchers said climate change would be the main driver, accounting for 90 percent of the risk, while population growth, migration and urbanization would account for 10 percent.
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Many of them lack steady incomes and documents essential to secure bank loans, even as a growing population and rapid urbanization are expected to exacerbate the housing shortage.
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It's still a game largely about fighting and killing, but also one that explores topics like racism and urbanization in a way that feels both natural and thoughtful.
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Ongoing urbanization, technological innovation, population growth and aging are creating long-term opportunities in a number of areas, such as equity and impact investments in emerging market healthcare.
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The continent continues to undergo rapid urbanization, with the United Nations forecasting that the world's 10 fastest-growing cities will all be in Africa by 2035, he said.
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"In a way, it's almost a continuation of the college experience," said Bruce J. Katz, the centennial scholar at the Brookings Institution, where he focuses on global urbanization.
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While countries like the U.S. and EU member states have to backpedal their heavy carbon emissions, emerging markets could still leapfrog the most carbon-intensive approaches to urbanization.
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In the developing world, where swelling populations, increased urbanization, and growing economies create a demand for ever more food — produced quickly and inexpensively — pesticide application rates are rising.
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" Why it happened: "Even critics of processed food acknowledge that there are multiple factors in the rise of obesity, including genetics, urbanization, growing incomes and more sedentary lives.
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Around then, it realized that its rapidly expanding urbanization could not continue to rely on diesel buses, lest it make an already crippling air-pollution problem even worse.
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The island nation underwent rapid urbanization and industrialization from the 1960s to the 1980s, as the government built much-needed infrastructure including public housing, concrete bridges and highways.
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Raquel Ludermir, advocacy consultant for charity Habitat for Humanity, said the rise in homelessness in Rio was a result of rapid urbanization and the inequalities it had created.
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That country has a huge internal market and is currently focusing on household spending, residential investments, service sector industries, agriculture, urbanization, regional development, welfare improvements and poverty eradication.
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The new guidelines come at a time of rapid urbanization in China, with an estimated 100 million people expected to move from the countryside to towns and cities.
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China's state planner last week drew up a plan for urbanization, including improvements to infrastructure projects in medium-sized and small cities and an expansion of transportation systems.
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The study, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, controlled for age, sex, parental age, degree of urbanization and history of mental illness in a parent or sibling.
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What remains, mostly in the Pacific, is a faint memory of what once was, he said, thanks largely to dams, urbanization, habitat loss and industrial activities like mining.
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In fact, the US Forest Service projects that up to 22019 percent of southern U.S. forests could be lost over the next 50 years due primarily to urbanization.
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This has been helped by a sharp rise in birth rates tied to the end of the one-child policy, growth of urbanization and the affluent middle class.
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Evoqua has benefited from several global trends as population growth, increasing levels of urbanization and more stringent regulations have been driving demand for cleaner and sustainable waste streams.
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Electoral seats in Pakistan's parliament are assigned using population density data, and with rural populations fluctuating due to urbanization, powerful feudal landlords and political families fear losing influence.
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The rapid urbanization of mostly the young and unemployed is placing a huge strain on infrastructure and will put pressure on politicians to direct more resources towards cities.
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What's happening: The forecast of global massive urbanization was important since it suggested that vast swaths of countryside would empty out, and we would adopt entirely new lifestyles.
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Smallish towns and states, hollowed out by demographics and urbanization, are not giving up: they are gathering together local dollars in what amount to signing bonuses to move.
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That means the main priority is guiding the ongoing process of urbanization in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, where new cities are being built by the dozens.
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The increased carbon dioxide in the air and the warming of the planet is feeding into other changes people are making in the land, like deforestation and urbanization.
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Because what I saw was a company that was growing incredibly fast, was global in scale, and was riding two durable trends: Urbanization and all the unintended problems.
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In Senegal, fat, sprawling baobab trees that have towered over the West African country for thousands of years are being threatened by climate change, urbanization and population growth.
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As a result of urbanization and then Prohibition, when many of the nation's remaining cider orchards were destroyed, Newark cider hasn't been made for at least a century.
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The urbanization of the country exposed more people to egalitarian cultural ideas, and the nonviolent tactics of the civil rights movement exposed Americans to the brutality of racism.
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ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Upset by the felling of many of Islamabad's trees – victims of rapid urbanization - the city's children are fighting back with a tree planting drive.
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"It was never planned to be a city," says Alexandra Thorer, an architect who lived in Addis as a child, and wrote her thesis on the city's urbanization.
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Since 22007, the US has been experiencing a decreasing total fertility rate across all levels of urbanization, with differences between rural and metro counties widening over the decade.
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"The Chinese economy is facing a change of strategy from a fast urbanization process to a new form that needs to diversify from various state sectors," Zhou said.
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Not only are there more mosquitoes, but the rapid urbanization occurring in many Asian nations means that susceptible populations are living in closer contact with disease-carrying insects.
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"Inside, you could find crafts and trades that have been wiped out elsewhere," said Arif Hasan, a historian and an architect who has chronicled Karachi's urbanization for decades.
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But it may be that when there are just two parties, aligned precisely along lines of race, class, level of urbanization, and education, they don't have the same incentives.
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Yet the anger expressed by Shewangizaw and his fellow farmers is echoed across much of central Ethiopia, which has experienced rapid urbanization and fledgling industrialization over the past decade.
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But the trend includes the other social factors as well: climate change, migration, urbanization and elevated travel, which are spreading disease-carrying species such as mosquitoes, bats and rats.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China must adopt "extraordinary measures" to help revitalize the countryside and prevent its rural economy from falling further behind amid continuing urbanization, the country's agriculture minister said.
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"The gap between the rich and the poor is huge, coupled with the global phenomenon of urbanization, the challenges are clear," she explained in her office in Cape Town.
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Chinese are left with few alternatives to buying autos of their own, though, since China's development of new public infrastructure hasn't kept up to speed with its increased urbanization.
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As it gets smarter, it will allow scientists to map how urbanization, deforestation and climate change are affecting the number and distribution of plants and animals across the world.
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Rapid urbanization in the commercial capital Yangon is creating the kind of slums that have fueled the increase in meth abuse in countries such as Thailand and the Philippines.
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And a combination of climate change and increased urbanization means that not only will there be more rats than ever, we're more likely to come into contact with them.
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The World Bank estimates Kampala, the country's capital, will experience rapid urbanization and the population will increase from six million in 2013 to more than 20 million by 2040.
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" They add that reduced levels and opportunities for physical activity that came with increased urbanization are also potential causes, but add that these are "unlikely to be major contributors.
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Still, Postbank predicts increased urbanization rates, in part thanks to the expected settlement of refugees, in some of the country's most popular cities will drive up residential property prices.
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Fortescue CEO Nev Power expects China's steel output to rise "around 5 percent compared to this time last year" with demand backed by the nation's continuing "industrialization and urbanization".
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The company, among Europe's leading producers of autocatalysts, has been pushing into developing countries including China and India, which are striving to control the pollution generated by rapid urbanization.
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Analysts say China's massive stock of unsold homes is evidence that the urbanization drive is faltering as migrants struggle to build a future away from their villages or towns.
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"A changing climate coupled with rapid urbanization is increasing the frequency of water-related crises facing cities," Mark Fletcher, leader of Arup's global water business, said in a statement.
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The survey found that since 1986, 60,000 township names and 400,000 village names had fallen out of use as a result of development and urbanization, The Beijing News reported.
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"Urbanization is increasing competition between cities and agriculture," lead author Dustin Garrick, of the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Rapid urbanization and rising incomes in India have led to an unchecked sprawl of office towers and luxury apartments that are pushing the poor farther out to the margins.
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By comparison, in 1900, urbanization in the United States was at 40 percent; by 1970, it was up to 74 percent, and has since inched up to 82 percent.
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The decline of vernacular architecture in the face of global urbanization is, of course, hardly new, though traditional Korean hanok are a particularly stark contrast to modern city living.
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The country's sweeping urbanization and the adoption of richer diets mean that Chinese adults, over all, weigh more than they used to and that obesity is a growing problem.
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While only about 1 percent of current U.S. trade takes place with sub-Saharan Africa, the opportunities in coming decades as extreme poverty recedes and urbanization grows are exponential.
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And while crash rates have dropped, they've been buoyed by increasing urbanization and a strong economy, which put more drivers—many of them distracted by smartphones—in tighter spaces.
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In reality, what's advancing in Istanbul is a neoliberal idea of the city — the result of massive urbanization and social cuts applied by a conservative government close to political Islam.
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China today suffers from a different kind of amnesia: its attempt to "catch up with the West" has fueled government-led urbanization initiatives resulting in omnipresent pollution of the environment.
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Many governments and experts think of development in terms of urbanization and the growth of industries and services, said IFAD's Paul Winters, who heads the team that wrote the report.
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The company says its business is expanding, and the continent's development will make it a better market, with a growing young population, more infrastructure investments, urbanization and rapid economic growth.
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"With urbanization, more people started to become open to the idea of finding some way to insure against potential loss of income if they happen to pass away," he said.
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General Catalyst partner Niko Bonatsos has spoken of his desire to invest in technologies that are focused on urbanization — many of which could fall under the auspices of government tech.
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Although the changing climate and a warming planet can create better conditions for malaria, its spread can still be curbed by better housing, education and health care, and increased urbanization.
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In large part, perhaps, because the 2009-2013 construction boom looked like a continuation of the pre-Crisis trend, which had been one of rapid industrialization and urbanization in China.
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True Value brings a discussion about economic exchange and urbanization to the heart of an entity perhaps otherwise completely removed from such realities, despite its arguable complicity in Milan's gentrification.
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While urbanization will continue, China's cities already have massive housing surpluses, and infrastructure construction - including roads and railways - is already more or less complete, he said, further limiting steel demand.
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Morningstar's Zhong said he expects the government to continue its property tightening policy in the short-term as the market is set for long-term support due to rapid urbanization.
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China has been trying to speed urbanization by easing requirements to secure hukou in urban areas, although it keeps a strict cap in top-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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"Concerns that the stilling was due to urbanization, or even due to wind farm development itself, appear to have been overblown," noted Dabiri, who had no role in the study.
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In Rulfo's novel, the ghosts come to symbolize a rural Mexico emptied out by urbanization and local despotism in the aftermath of the country's bloody revolution and ensuing Cristero War.
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Two-thirds of the world's population will be living in cities by 2050, the United Nations has projected, with India, China and Nigeria set to drive a surge in urbanization.
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In a bid to repopulate rural areas and combat the effects of urbanization and emigration, many towns and villages in Italy have adopted a scheme of selling homes for $1.
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The reason we need this now more than ever is that pathogens are spreading faster and emerging more frequently than ever before due to ecological changes, urbanization and increased mobility.
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Entering modern society comes with new access to the global marketplace and culture, but also requires countries to confront increased income inequality, urbanization, environmental degradation, ethnic competition, and religious extremism.
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How did the politics of Detroit's post-223 de-urbanization—and the subsequent rise of Black Power and black consciousness movements in the city—work their way into Detroit techno?
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As urbanization brought blacks and whites closer together, white communities reacted with racially restrictive covenants, aiming to keep blacks and their perceived threat to property values out of white neighborhoods.
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Eventually, extreme urbanization becomes a vicious cycle: More people bring more deforestation, and human expansion and the loss of habitat ultimately kills off predators, including those that feed off rodents.
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But deforestation and urbanization, especially in densely populated places like China, are putting humans into closer contact with bats and other animals, which allows the spillover of viruses, Giotis said.
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We passed zebras in Kajiado, an area that used to be rural but in the frenzied urbanization of Nairobi in the last 21 years is now more like a suburb.
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What's more, petfood and related products sell particularly well online and in cities, he said, meaning that the pet business is benefiting from big trends toward online shopping and urbanization.
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"If you look at the urbanization data, particularly in some parts of Asia and Africa, it is happening now," said Simone Borelli, an expert on urban forestry with the FAO.
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"Refine and carefully choose prominent examples of special cultural characteristics and symbols, put this into urbanization and city planning, rationally use public spaces for sculptures, squares and parts," it said.
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Audubon's bird and climate models are the first to include a comprehensive assessment of North America's landscapes, including vegetation, agricultural land use and urbanization alongside a wealth of information on birds.
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China's development zones, introduced during its reform and opening-up period more than 30 years ago, have been an integral part of the country's industrialization, urbanization and internationalization, the statement said.
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"With the growing trends of water use for industry, community water supply, rapid urbanization, (and) rapid growth of irrigated areas, definitely sustainability will be questionable," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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If Chinese central planners got urbanization wrong, the world's miners were guilty of putting too much faith in Beijing's ability to engineer the Chinese economy in any way they saw fit.
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The panel of scientists' growing interest in cities mirrors fledgling recognition among global leaders that breakneck urbanization must be steered on a path toward reducing planet-warming greenhouse gases, said Miller.
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Traffic volume in turn depends on demographic and economic factors (population, household formation, car ownership, urbanization, average incomes and employment) and to a more limited extent gasoline prices at the pump.
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In Thailand, it was influential to see a galloping urbanization coexist alongside more antiquated things, to see people living off the soup they make with fresh produce alongside more modern places.
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Foreign investors are tentatively buying in sectors linked to the main themes of the 13th Five-Year Plan released earlier this month, including urbanization, consumption, internet growth, green development and innovation.
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Housing minister Chen Zhenggao said on the sidelines of the parliament meeting that he was "fully confident" of the outlook for the property market, amid strong economic fundamentals and continuing urbanization.
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"The number of adults with type 2 diabetes is expected to rise over the next 12 years due to aging, urbanization and associated changes in diet and physical activity," said Basu.
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As rapid urbanization, growing middle classes, and technological advances fuel emerging markets growth, there will be room for other aviation and shipping hubs, particularly along the Arabian Peninsula's well-positioned coastline.
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When you reframe risk and opportunity around these goals, you can focus more on investments aligned with long-term trends, especially the dominant global themes of aging, urbanization and population growth.
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"It has a young population, a high rate of urbanization - almost 103% already - a dynamic economy and there is only one player so far," says Heineken CEO Jean-Francois Van Boxmeer.
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And a stroll through the exhibition, which opens on Saturday, is both a tour and a critique of contemporary China, its rapid urbanization and the impact globalization has had on it.
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Reckitt has performed well versus many of its packaged goods peers, as its focus on consumer health has benefited from ageing populations, urbanization and growing interest in general health and wellness.
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About half a billion people live in informal settlements in cities in the region, as the pace of urbanization quickens, according to the lobby group Asian Coalition of Housing Rights (ACHR).
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One set of scholars assumed that larger social and economic trends, such as the literacy rate or the extent of urbanization, determined whether a country became a democracy or a dictatorship.
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The exhibition of nearly 70 works looks for commonalities, from the biographical (the painters both had a love for the Adirondacks) to the thematic (a similar anxiety about industrialization and urbanization).
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Worsening air pollution from forest burning, agricultural waste incineration, urbanization, and rapid industrialization — with increasing public awareness — might drive protests against authorities, such as those recently in China, India, and Iran.
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They argue that urbanization and the attendant access to education for women that often accompanies such shifts will cause the earth's population to begin shrinking in the middle of this century.
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As a result, the exodus of migrants has accelerated, and the population of Beijing's six core districts dropped by 353,000 in 2016, the first decline since urbanization began four decades ago.
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Over the years, dwindling mine jobs, urbanization, more aggressive outreach and fear of H.I.V. slowly increased use of contraception to 16 percent in 1998, and close to 60 percent in 2015.
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In Africa, several countries are experimenting with so-called "smart cities" in an attempt to alleviate the problems related with rapid urbanization such as traffic, pollution, inadequate housing and public spaces.
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With almost 70% of the world's population estimated to be living in cities by 2050, mainly in Africa and Asia, environmental impacts of urbanization could worsen without solutions, experts have warned.
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The urbanization and suburbanization of the US can be seen even more starkly —50.1% of the country's population lives in the 238 most densely populated counties, shown here in darker blue:
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Like many Asian megalopolises, which crowd the catalog of the world's most polluted cities, Bangkok suffers from a toxic amalgam: unchecked industrialization and urbanization, a car-crazy populace and lax regulation.
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It has been driven by some pretty powerful factors — urbanization, big tobacco, and Burger King — but we also haven't tried very hard to fight it, at least in the developing world.
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Rapid urbanization and productivity growth would help the young entrepreneurs at the forefront of China's wealth creation continue to reach the ranks of the billionaires in the coming years, it said.
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Several experts said in interviews that a main reason for the disease outbreaks was most likely the expansion of the number of people at risk, through urbanization, population growth and international travel.
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"We see strong demand signals in North America, gradual recovery in Europe and ongoing sustainable urbanization in China," Chief Executive Andrew Liveris said in a statement announcing the company's first-quarter results.
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"In this day and age, we still have cholera in Accra," said Ghanaian resident Waseem-Ahmed Bin-Kasim, currently completing his PhD on sanitation and urbanization at Washington University in St. Louis.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Population growth, rapid urbanization and unfettered development of coastal areas in the Asia-Pacific region, are increasing the risk of heavy damage from powerful typhoons, experts said.
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"What will define Chinese demand for iron ore is continued urbanization, infrastructure investments, auto production," Siani said, adding that the Chinese government tends to stimulate internal demand when the economy slows down.
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Rapid urbanization in these emerging economies will also strain energy needs, and the demand for cooling - such as air-conditioning - will soar as temperatures rise resulting in frequent power outages, it said.
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As a result, the New Urban Agenda (NUA), a non-binding agreement to tackle the challenges of rapid urbanization over the next 20 years, only referred to cities being "friendly for families".
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Using assessments from 350 experts on fireflies from around the world, the researchers determined the top threat was habitat loss and fragmentation caused by factors such as urbanization, industrialization and agricultural intensification.
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Using assessments from 350 experts on fireflies from around the world, the researchers determined the top threat was habitat loss and fragmentation caused by factors such as urbanization, industrialization and agricultural intensification.
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Dealing with the pressures of continued urbanization in some of the world's largest cities has already put China ahead, said Andrew Steer, the president of environmental think tank the World Resources Institute.
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The government's anti-fun campaign comes a couple months after the Central Urban Work Conference, a meeting aimed to address problems associated with China's rapid urbanization, like pollution, safety, and traffic jams.
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This isn't some sort of idle, dramatic prediction: we're already hitting the leading edge of it, fueled by a convergence of technology, vast climate change, urbanization, and a generation ambiguous about ownership.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rapid urbanization has caused so many problems in the Senegalese town of Tivaouane-Peulh that the government and aid providers don't know where to direct their limited resources.
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The two-and-a-half year old consultancy applies behavioral insights to urbanization challenges in order to create new services and business models within emerging economies, and it's beginning to make waves.
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The company's rise has coincided with a boom in the German real estate market driven by ultra-low interest rates, urbanization and the attraction to economic migrants exerted by Europe's largest economy.
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With a small population relative to that of the United States, and a high degree of urbanization, there is less development pressure to clear land for farming, residential or other commercial use.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing minister Chen Zhenggao said he was "fully confident" of the outlook for the property market, amid strong economic fundamentals and continuing urbanization, financial magazine Caixin said on Thursday.
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With rapid urbanization, governments across the world are making cities "smarter" by using data and digital technology in security, healthcare, energy, mobility, water and waste management for more efficiency, sustainability and liveability.
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China has been trying to quicken its urbanization process through relaxed requirements for obtaining Hukou in urban areas, although it keeps a strict cap in top-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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Meanwhile, demand for cooling systems is set to rocket globally, largely driven by growing populations, urbanization and rising income levels in developing countries, it said, as climate change also pushes up demand.
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"We can't reverse or slow the pace of urbanization, so we need to address the issue of the urban homeless urgently now, before it gets any worse," said Vanessa Peter at IRCDUC.
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But the lakes have been under attack by urbanization, encroached by real estate projects and left foaming and frothing as toxic effluents, sewage and trash produced by industries and homes fill them.
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But, in a mea culpa at Brookings, William Frey, a demographer, said that, based on new census data, he has changed his mind on what he thought was a mass urbanization trend.
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Exacerbating the problem is rapid urbanization in industrializing Southeast Asian cities, which is also a major cause of air pollution and poses severe challenges to managing PM 2110.1 levels, the report found.
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This was not planned, but was rather the result of myriad colliding stochastic evolutions: state formation and the state's monopoly over violence, urbanization, the growing differentiation of occupations in increasingly complex economies.
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China needs to push ahead with urbanization to close in on the yawning divide between the rich and the poor, an award-winning science fiction writer of a dystopian Beijing told CNBC.
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Tiny birds like the superb fairy-wren, with its bright blue markings, seem to be declining because they need brambles and weeds to hide in, and urbanization tends to cut that away.
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But as pressures on water supplies from climate change and rapid urbanization grow, along with data showing that groundwater aquifers are quickly being depleted across the globe, that has begun to change.
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But as pressures on water supplies from climate change and rapid urbanization grow, along with data showing that groundwater aquifers are quickly being depleted across the globe, that has begun to change.
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But in the last century, at least 37 languages have disappeared in Peru alone, lost in the steady clash and churn of national expansion, migration, urbanization and the pursuit of natural resources.
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There has been strong demand for baby formula products thanks to a sharp rise in birth rates tied to the end of the one-child policy, growth of urbanization and affluent middle class.
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"With mass urbanization and the associated economic growth in emerging regions, and the renewal of dilapidated infrastructure in developed countries, this asset class might play a larger role in the future," it said.
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Key reasons for the region's appeal: The rapid rate of urbanization, as well as the large youth populations, which are expected to translate into a larger consumer base when they come of age.
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While she calls Manhattan home, Carlen catches pigeons in cities from Boston to Washington, DC in order to figure out if any of these birds are related and how urbanization impacts these connections.
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Study authors said a stable U.S. economy, continued urbanization of big cities, employment growth and low gas prices all contributed to increased traffic and congestion worldwide in 2016, lowering the quality of life.
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"With rapid urbanization, cities will be developing, and mayors have to make a choice: Will the city be compact and accessible, or will cities sprawl and require driving and be much less efficient?"
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Much like Cape Town in South Africa, Bangalore&aposs water woes have been in the making for some time with years of unplanned urbanization, rapid population growth and poor management of water resources.
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They're being poisoned by pesticides while urbanization encroaches on bees' natural habitats, leaving them with fewer places to live and fewer wildflowers to feed on, says Harvard biologist James Crall, who studies bumblebees.
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Unfortunately, that means the bottleneck will get worse over the next few decades, according to Mr. Walston and his co-authors, because urbanization imposes short-term costs, including an increase in overall consumption.
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Her plight, and those of her neighbors, shows the struggle of expanding urbanization in one of the world's biggest cities, placing a burden on government resources and leaving families stranded without basic services.
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Why it matters: Even before Harvey, we identified the Gulf Coast as America's "soft underbelly" of disease due to a confluence of extreme poverty, urbanization, subtropical climate and climate change, and population shifts.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has vowed to step up its protection of farmland in the wake of the country's first drop in grain output in over a decade, as rapid urbanization swallows agricultural resources.
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"Urbanization should be based around human beings, and not just driven by man-made cities," said Wang Jun, a senior economist at China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, a Beijing-based think-tank.
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LONDON (Reuters) - China's urbanization over the last four decades has been described as the largest human migration in history, with several hundred million people relocating from rural villages to towns, cities and supercities.
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LONDON (Reuters) - China's urbanization over the last four decades has been described as the largest human migration in history, with several hundred million people relocating from rural villages to towns, cities and supercities.
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"The whole concept of urbanization, the whole sharing economy concept is definitely migrating towards the commercial sector," he said, noting that office occupants are a blend of international companies and local start-ups.
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Marvels of modern urbanization, ancient engineering, and natural wonders beg for a unique perspective to be fully appreciated—and they are, in a photo gallery National Geographic's editorial team curated exclusively for Creators.
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The onset of globalization in the 1990s brought about a new social landscape that saw the rise of the middle class and urbanization, while simultaneously creating a new population of deprived urban poor.
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However, it is clear that urbanization overall seemed to have a negative effect on crow survival for the first three years of life, according to the paper published in The Condor: Ornithological Applications.
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Along with urbanization, the political preferences of many Iranians have shifted from a hard-line revolutionary agenda to more middle-class aspirations, such as a decent education, and transparency and accountability in governance.
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The shift from global population growth toward population decline is emerging as one of the least appreciated forces that is, along with urbanization and digital disruption, upending the political and economic status quo.
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She&aposs taking an upbeat view of Chinese stocks, saying China&aposs growing wealth and rapid urbanization will boost equities in the longer term even though trade tensions dominate investors&apos attention today.
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Such fires are common in poorer neighborhoods and slums in Brazil, where scant government planning during decades of rapid urbanization resulted in informal settlements sprouting up, housing millions who sought jobs in urban centers.
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Beijing can also use whatever excess capacity it might have in its large domestic development projects to manage massive urbanization, and to improve the livelihoods in the country's less developed central and western regions.
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The way that Parsons and Carlen seek to understand the most mundane of New York City's wildlife gives scientists are gaining a head start in seeing how nature is evolving in response to urbanization.
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Global "population growth, urbanization and a rising middle class" would drive growth in the long-term, Marel chief executive Arni Oddur said, adding that it is targeting 12 percent annual sales growth through 2026.
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Both men agree the political influence of families such as theirs is waning, a trend analysts attribute to rapid urbanization, improved education and the rise of social media, which is making people more informed.
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Rwanda had the world's fastest urbanization rate from 230-2500, according to U.N. figures, while Kigali's population is expected to swell from just over 1 million in 2011 to over 3 million by 2030.
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The findings of urbanization advancing so dramatically due to population growth and to migration can help cities design policies and practices to prepare for the influx, said John Wilmoth, director of the Population Division.
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In addition to the millennial-themed ETF, Global X has plans for an aging population ETF, urbanization ETF and funds covering education technology, nanotechnology, 3-D printing and, more broadly, disruptive technology, among others.
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Experts do not expect floods of that magnitude again any time soon but say the city's low-lying location, continued urbanization and extreme weather linked to climate change are raising Bangkok's vulnerability to floods.
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"A lot of the urbanization ... has happened in a largely unplanned matter," Abhas Jha, the World Bank sector manager for transport, urban and disaster risk management for East Asia and the Pacific, told CNN.
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BEIJING, March 9 (Reuters) - China's housing minister Chen Zhenggao said he was "fully confident" of the outlook for the property market, amid strong economic fundamentals and continuing urbanization, financial magazine Caixin said on Thursday.
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Urbanization and rapid population growth will only add to the problem - Nigeria's population is projected to swell from 0003 to 2000 million by 230, and more and more people are moving to its cities.
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The combination of increased urbanization (where car ownership is drastically lower per capita) and innovations in car sharing and autonomous driving will have a powerful impact on the way Americans look at car ownership.
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But given that I've never been to this part of Africa, I've also been exploring urbanization issues and opportunities in the city's sprawling slums and I spent Sunday in and around Nairobi National Park.
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Weddings are the bread and butter of the rental-relative business, perhaps because traditions that dictate the number of guests haven't changed to reflect increasing urbanization and migration, shrinking families, and decreased job security.
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He also fantasized that creating a strong national government would ipso facto result in the emergence of a cohesive national community that could replace the small "island" communities being rapidly depopulated by advancing urbanization.
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"The increasing trend of urbanization of gross domestic product is not a good thing in this country, and as small communities lose their air service, that trend is only going to worsen," Black says.
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Commenting on the findings, Mami Mizutori, head of the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, said rapid, unplanned urbanization - "where slums are being created overnight" - is increasing disaster risk in many developing-world cities.
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Ride sharing, electric vehicles and urbanization will impact demand for the company's products, but Executive Vice President Matt Fox said oil and gas will remain an important part of the energy mix through 2050.
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With rapid urbanization, a construction boom in South and Southeast Asian cities is resulting in more offices, houses and apartments, as well as bridges, flyovers and tunnels - which has created so-called dead spaces.
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Nairobi, Kenya's capital, is home to about 4 million people, but - said urban development agency UN-Habitat - decades of unplanned growth amid rapid urbanization mean more than half of its residents live in slums.
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Nanji said Nairobi's high rate of urbanization meant that the farmland on its outskirts would sooner or later have been developed in an unplanned manner - which would be worse than having organized satellite cities.
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With rapid urbanization and population growth, Karibu Homes estimates that 14 million people will live in Nairobi's metropolitan region - which encompasses the capital and three neighboring counties - by 2030, up from 9 million today.
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Check out this book excerpt from 2015 arguing that changes in urbanization, technology, demographics and trade are transforming our world at a rate and scale that far surpasses what happened during the Industrial Revolution.
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Most of the day-to-day operations of Loading are run by Deniz Aktaş, an accomplished illustrator and painter whose works often explore human impacts on cities and struggles with urbanization, war, and trauma.
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Largely from the 21st century, these designs share a serious concern for our environment, having emerged from natural disasters but with their makers fully aware of the effects of climate change and rapid urbanization.
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Living within a self-imposed solitude, enacted as part of Zanoni's mission to explore the urbanization-versus-population anomaly of Ordos, the photographer found a heightened enlightement with the lonesome-tinged narrative of The Raven.
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Rapid urbanization brings excessive consumption of finite resources, congestion, and operational inefficiencies that can be better managed with smart waste management, route optimization software, intelligent public transport systems, wireless networks, and connected energy-efficient lights.
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The largest absolute increase was seen among people aged 45 to 64, though increases were seen across every age and racial/ethnic group, as well as in every urbanization level, from cities to rural areas.
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Development challenges - from rapid urbanization to climate change, disaster preparedness and social injustice - are closely linked to land and the way it is used, said Deininger, lead economist in the World Bank's Development Research Group.
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And then on top of the range shifts, we also have the pressure of changes in sea level rise, urbanization, extreme weather events that are going to affect these species no matter where they go.
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Schierenbeck says this will trim space requirements by an estimated 40 percent when deliveries begin in 2019 in the Middle East and Asia, target markets where cramped quarters and urbanization are sending buildings ever higher.
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So for us, it's about one, increasing population density and the urbanization challenges that come with that; two, the aging demographic which is a big driver of the real estate markets internationally; and three, sustainability.
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China could not relax when it came to food supplies, he said, with urbanization changing the country's eating habits and its population set to rise further following the relaxation of the nation's "one-child policy".
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Like many large urban areas, Chinese cities are grappling with both rapid urbanization - more than half of the country's population lives in urban areas - and extreme weather, such as severe floods, water shortages and heatwaves.
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The world's rural population will peak in a few years then decline by 433, according to the report on urbanization by the Population Division of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).
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Internationally, where rapid urbanization in megacities around the world presents significant economic and social challenges, 85033G holds the promise of more effective, efficient, and greener deployment of critically needed power, public safety, and transportation infrastructure.
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In that objective, he is fighting longstanding trends, that are rooted in decades of urbanization, as well as the more recent power of knowledge-based companies, colleges and other institutions to attract investment and talent.
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"Growth will continue to be underpinned by a strong infrastructure pipeline which also echoes the Belt and Road initiative and urbanization projects like Xiong'an," ANZ economists Raymond Yeung and Betty Wang wrote in a note.
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This rapid urbanization means Africa's big cities will need more roads, hospital and power stations, while growing numbers of new inhabitants will be buying consumer goods like instant noodles, washing powder and mobile phone cards.
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But it's just one of many communities across Canada and the US—and around the world—that will be facing increased pressure to secure clean water, due to growing populations, urbanization, pollution and climate change.
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He also said the west must promote new forms of urbanization and industrialization and pay attention to protecting the environment, particularly its scarce water supplies, which have constrained development in large parts of the region.
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The urbanization and environmental protection that are threatening his ranch are much different than [what faced] his predecessors, where they basically took the land and were stubborn enough, maybe vicious enough, to hold onto it.
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A team led by assistant professor Andrea K. Townsend at Hamilton College in New York set out to measure the effects of urbanization and a low-quality diet on crows' cholesterol levels and overall survival.
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The sheer weight of the state's urbanization and diversification will eventually undermine a Trump-type strategy that focuses on maximizing the party's margins outside metro areas at the price of eroding its strength within them.
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The Keju system that was effective in bringing people from rural areas to government posts in cities, and thus increased social mobility, is not applicable in a country experiencing the fastest urbanization trend in history.
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Harper notes that Rome was held back in some ways by a heavy burden of disease, an unintentional byproduct of urbanization and trade that a society lacking the germ theory had no way to alleviate.
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A number of factors — including urbanization, drained soil moisture, delayed onset of the summer monsoon season, and the increased odds of hotter and longer-lasting heat events — have contributed to the region's recent heat waves.
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Besides a warming planet, scientists fear growing urbanization across Africa could also fuel the transmission of diseases carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which flourishes in cities and slums - the opposite of the country-loving Anopheles.
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A "vicious circle" of urbanization concentrates people and buildings in areas of potential damage, while also increasing risks, by destroying natural sources of resilience, such as mangrove forests, or increasing strain on groundwater reserves, it said.
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Joseph Magoya, a local program officer at Water for People, a U.S.-based water charity, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that water has gradually been running short in Malawi's cities as a result of growing urbanization.
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It is a challenge, it always will be a challenge, but I think with urbanization, given the density that's being absorbed into major cities around the world, it's a challenge that needs to be dealt with.
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The company said the property sector would benefit from supportive policies including a moderate monetary environment, an acceleration in new-round urbanization, inventory clearance measures as well as the formal end to China's one-child policy.
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Dubbed the Silicon Savannah, Konza aims to become a smart city - using tech to manage water and electricity efficiently and reduce commuting time - and a solution to the rapid, unplanned urbanization which has plagued existing cities.
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Like many Asian countries, Indonesia is experiencing a rise in urbanization, population and economic growth and is scrambling to find ways to increase its electric power capacity, with coal plants set to play a major role.
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Decades of rapid and chaotic urbanization in the nation of 21958 million people have left many impoverished areas without basic sanitation, putting the poor at far greater risk of contracting Zika and other mosquito-borne viruses.
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The risk of such outbreaks has risen due to urbanization and increasing mobility of the population, and this year it was especially acute because of the El Nino weather phenomenon which multiplied mosquito numbers, she said.
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It's a fact that sprawling urbanization has paved over much of the natural drainage areas that used to exist in places like Miami and Houston, which recently saw severe flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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This is a public health problem now, and, as we move into a promised future of still-increasing urbanization and density, it's poised to become a much, much worse problem: a collective numbing of human souls.
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Hu Yan, a graphic artist in Beijing whose work often grapples with the loss of history and culture brought on by urbanization, said the demolitions were a tragedy that had inspired many artists to speak out.
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Now it's "country-wide," the study authors write, and the increase can be "seen at every level of residential urbanization in the US." So it's not just a rural problem or an urban problem — it's both.
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SHANGHAI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - China's steel production is expected to grow only modestly this year, driven by rising urbanization and Belt and Road Initiative projects, Australia's Fortescue Metals Group chief executive Elizabeth Gaines said on Wednesday.
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I THINK ALL ISSUES ARE BEHIND US. I THINK THE BIG STORY IS GROWTH, WHETHER IT'S URBANIZATION IN CHINA, WHETHER IT'S THE INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH BEING ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE, IT'S RAILROADS, IT'S AIRPORTS, IT'S TRAIN STATIONS AND THEN MALLS.
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Meanwhile, Bangladesh — which has seen the world's fastest growing ultra wealthy population (those with a net worth of more than $30 million) over the past five years — draws its success from rapid urbanization and increased infrastructure investment.
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In Africa, growing urbanization, climate change, conflict, displacement camps - as well as sanitation investment that is a third of what it should be - mean there is no reason to expect any improvement without deliberate action, he said.
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Even as the global economy cools, Symrise and its rivals have been benefiting from strong demand from sectors such as consumer staples, resilient to cyclical swings thanks to population growth, urbanization and increasing prosperity in emerging markets.
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"Alibaba tells us the trends in the Chinese consumer towards urbanization are leading to modernization and then to Westernization, particularly the notion that people are putting money into their homes for the first time," the CEO says.
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The contradictions of experiencing simultaneous isolation and inextricably united community have been fodder for writers ever since the rapid increase in urbanization after World War II. An apartment is your home, but also just a few rooms.
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"Over the past few years, they've become the main driver of urbanization in China," said Ni Jie, the chairman of Luyuan Electric Vehicles, an electric bike manufacturer in eastern China, and a vocal defender of the industry.
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"The changing demography and growth in urbanization … creates a huge barrier between the message Trump's putting out there and what those voters want," said David Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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The dengue virus is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which has grown rapidly along with urbanization and globalization because it thrives in tropical mega-cities and is easily spread in goods containing small puddles of water.
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The Humboldt martens' habitats are being damaged by all sorts of threats: logging, wildfires, urbanization, climate change, diseases, exposure to toxins and marijuana cultivation, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife report issued this month.
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Rapid urbanization will greatly expand the consumer class with disposable incomes, the authors predict, which will lead to a massive increase in business and consumer spending -- rising from $22013 trillion in 2600 to $2600 trillion in 2000.
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Asked about the report during a press briefing on Monday, Xie Zhenhua, the climate change envoy, said the target of "around 2030" was based on national conditions, with China still in the process of industrialization and urbanization.
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"Overall, the relationship between guns and violent death among women persisted at both the state and the regional level, in virtually every age group, and even after controlling for state-level poverty and urbanization," the study found.
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At the Royal Academy of Art, he found John Constable's "Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames — Morning After a Stormy Night," a soot-gray rural vista that reads like a groan of despair at England's urbanization.
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With people migrating from rural areas in search of jobs as local farm business suffer from extreme weather and rising food imports, the rapid pace of urbanization has pushed 56 percent of Kenya's city dwellers into slums.
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A new paper titled, "How Vulnerable are American Communities to Automation, Trade, and Urbanization?" combines several recent studies on employment trends to present a stark view of the future job situation for certain parts of the country.
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The World Bank estimates that because of traffic jams, every 20153 percent growth in urbanization in Indonesia delivers only 4 percent of long-term GDP growth, compared with 13 percent in India and 10 percent in China.
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"This new study suggests that an increase of urbanization and modernization will result in an increase of the (lithium) levels in waters in the future," said senior study author Nathalie Vigier of the Sorbonne University in Paris.
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For years, researchers and health agencies have warned that urbanization and the influx of cheap, sugary, and processed foods into low- and middle-income countries are linked to the surge in noncommunicable diseases, including diabetes and obesity.
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