• The importance of traditional knowledge regarding resource conservation, protection of sacred grooves, endangered species etc. started declining in modern India. (scirp.org)
  • From an observational and practical point of view, the natural resource has been declining rapidly in India. (scirp.org)
  • The Afghan Taliban suicide bombers brazenly struck in the heart of Kabul while American Defense Secretary Robert Gates was still en route to New Delhi to further expand the already growing US-India military ties. (riazhaq.com)
  • On the other hand, opponents believe that stock market reforms may lead to over-speculation, financial crisis and even a misallocation of resources at the cost of real sector growth and stability, as has been seen in the case of India. (epw.in)
  • This paper attempts to assess the changes in workforce structure and the system of governance associated with macroeconomic reforms and their impact on the rate and pattern of urbanisation in India. (epw.in)
  • The primary forces driving the boom in trade with India and China are the rapid growth, industrialization and urbanization of these two economies. (gfmag.com)
  • The ongoing and impressive economic growth being experienced by many of Africa's key economies is also fueling trade by creating internal demand for goods manufactured in China and India. (gfmag.com)
  • Growth within the Asia-Pacific region will continue to be propelled by sustained rapid pace of urbanization being witnessed in developing countries such as China and India, which is resulting in the region experiencing a higher demand for infrastructure, including emergency lighting systems. (yahoo.com)
  • In India, was it in essence a technological revolution, solving supply constraints, as popularly represented, or a transformation of the economic system led by growth in demand? (future-agricultures.org)
  • Remarkably, despite the many new developments over the past 50 years, one fact looks very much the same, explained Kent and Haub: Populations are growing most rapidly where such growth can be afforded the least-an observation that has changed little over time, they said. (livescience.com)
  • Thus, the projections contain no explicit feedback mechanism from urbanization to population growth, even though urbanization is an important factor in fertility rate changes (urban populations generally have lower fertility rates than rural populations). (grida.no)
  • Primarily, urbanization is a concept that we use to describe two often related but distinct processes: the development of rural land and villages into urban agglomerations, and the relative growth - or relatively slower decline - of urban populations in comparison to non-urban populations in a given area. (futurelearn.com)
  • And new challenges and opportunities are presented by urbanization, international migration, ageing populations and the largest youth generation in human history. (who.int)
  • Viktor Orban, the president of Hungary and man-crush of more than a few traditionalist Christians, recently announced a series of measures designed to reverse his country's demographic decline. (breakpoint.org)
  • In the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar, urbanization has become one of the country's most critical development issues. (asiafoundation.org)
  • Though Mongolia experienced unprecedented growth between 2011 and 2013, where GDP reached record levels of 17.3 percent, a combination of factors, including lavish government spending and the decline of revenue from commodity exports, have halted the country's GDP growth to 1 percent in 2016. (asiafoundation.org)
  • The Iranian government's success in family planning-which has led to the dramatic decline in the national fertility rate from an average of more than 6 births per woman in the early 1980s to just over 2 births per woman in 2007-has been called the country's "other revolution" [1]. (who.int)
  • This raises significant questions about what China's population decline means for the country's economy and, by extension, what the implications are for Southeast Asia and the world. (channelnewsasia.com)
  • Global top 2000 strategist rely on us for their growth strategies. (marketsandmarkets.com)
  • All but two of Japan's other regions experienced losses between 2000 and 2005, with growth only in Kanto (the broader Tokyo region, consisting of seven prefectures) and the island region (and prefecture) of Okinawa. (newgeography.com)
  • Rapid growth and development in the late 1990s and early 2000, combined with an accelerated integration of technology, created opportunities for selected workers, while leaving multiple societal groups with a sense of real and/or relative deprivation. (scirp.org)
  • The incidence of HIV infections globally declined by 39% between 2010 and 2020, far less than the 75% target agreed to by the General Assembly in 2016. (who.int)
  • Today, as a result of rapid population growth, increased food requirements and proceeding urbanization, the area of agricultural land is rapidly declining and our oceans are over-fished. (zhaw.ch)
  • One FAIR report cites that productive land use and agricultural land is also declining due to suburbanization. (fairus.org)
  • While this transition was taking place, there is evidence of dynamism in the agricultural sector (increased production of yams and cassava per capita, decline in per capita food imports, growth in output of niche commodities while there was a long-term consistency (though fluctuating annually) in output of cereal grains and pulses per capita,), during the period since the adoption of a new policy framework in the 1980s. (future-agricultures.org)
  • The limitation of African urbanization as a driving force for agricultural revolution - through a radical transformation of rural-urban relations - is the failure of classical industrialization strategies to provide new employment and incomes on a sufficient scale. (future-agricultures.org)
  • Since food security across Africa is compounded most by the effects of climate change, declining agricultural productivity, and rapid population and urbanization growth, policy priorities centered around leveraging science and digital technology, and addressing fragility hold the greatest promise across the African continent. (co.tz)
  • Urbanization has enabled economic growth but it has contributed to climate change, pollution, congestion, and the growth of slums. (bartleby.com)
  • Also, population aging could reduce labor supply and thus reduce potential economic growth. (grida.no)
  • Investments in infrastructure, health and education coincided with economic growth, urbanisation and mortality decline. (lu.se)
  • In recent decades, the world as a whole has experienced the highest rate of economic growth ever recorded. (hse.ru)
  • Gulati, S.C. and Suresh, S. (online) Population Pressure and Deforestation in Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. (scirp.org)
  • Urbanization in developing countries has brought economic growth and industrial development, but at the same time, it has also brought environmental problems, especially increased carbon emissions. (frontiersin.org)
  • Recently, China has promoted a new type of urbanization with the common goal of economic growth and green development, which provides a reference for the sustainable development of urbanization in developing countries. (frontiersin.org)
  • Various robustness tests show that green urbanization can effectively lessen carbon emissions, and under the constraint of economic growth rate target, if the government still gives priority to economic development, it is not conducive to the development of green urbanization. (frontiersin.org)
  • Urbanization in developing countries has brought economic growth and industrial development, but has also generated environmental problems (especially CO 2 emissions), as exemplified by China. (frontiersin.org)
  • A response to Amit Bhaduri's article titled "Danger Zones of High Economic Growth" (EPW, 22 October 2016). (epw.in)
  • They acknowledge evidence that suggests that economic growth under neo-liberalism is difficult to sustain, that it leads to an increase in inequality, and that continuing inequality is harmful for sustainable (or continuing) growth. (epw.in)
  • The fertility transition in this region has roughly coincided with a period of rapid economic growth. (iseas.edu.sg)
  • Africa's trade with Asia has been accompanied by enormous volumes of Asian investment in Africa, says Dehn-a trend that, in turn, has created jobs and economic growth, especially in the form of infrastructure development. (gfmag.com)
  • That contributes to a virtuous cycle, as these activities aid economic growth, which translates into increased consumption, says Dehn. (gfmag.com)
  • China is facing many health challenges amid its demographic and epidemiological transition of rapid economic growth, urbanization and industrialization, population ageing, diseases and risk factors related to lifestyle and environmental pollution. (bvsalud.org)
  • Until about 1700, humanity was in "Stage One of the Demographic Transition Model," which is characterized by high birth and death rates and "slow and fluctuating" population growth. (breakpoint.org)
  • Urbanization is also a strongly anticipated demographic trend. (grida.no)
  • Has it occurred to anyone that the close correspondence between food commodity production growth and demographic growth over the last 45 years could be explained by poverty (lack of purchasing power and consequently low prices)? (future-agricultures.org)
  • In recent years, Japan is facing rapid demographic changes such as a declining birth rate, growing ageing population, urbanization, the trend towards a nuclear family, rising single-person households, and households with no kids. (researchandmarkets.com)
  • The prevalence of past or present infection with hepatitis B virus among adults aged 18 years or older declined from 5.7% in 1999-2002 to 4.3% in 2015-2018. (cdc.gov)
  • The annual incidence of hip fractures declined in most countries from 2005 to 2018, but this rate is projected to roughly double by 2050, according to a new study of 19 countries/regions. (medscape.com)
  • An analysis of migration and urbanisation patterns in recent decades suggests a distinctly declining trend. (epw.in)
  • As a result, due to the pressures coming from population growth, changing diets, urbanization and also climate change, biodiversity is declining, our ecosystems are being continuously degraded and we, in turn, are suffering the consequences. (mongabay.com)
  • Even though the number of species that has actually become extinct from the region is small, the relatively recent widespread deforestation and the associated fragmentation of natural habitats is expected to accelerate biodiversity decline in the coming years. (unu.edu)
  • In 2010, as part of our research at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and the Global Land Project in Hokkaido University, we conducted a review of the causes of biodiversity decline in Southeast Asia ( download the report and references from the sidebar on the right of this page). (unu.edu)
  • We found that various processes associated with habitat destruction such as habitat conversion, degradation and fragmentation are linked to biodiversity decline in the region. (unu.edu)
  • In contrast to proximate factors, the underlying drivers of biodiversity decline can operate at scales ranging from the national to the global. (unu.edu)
  • In the medium term, it can spur innovation, create new sources of growth, and reduce poverty and inequality while delivering cleaner air and water. (imf.org)
  • On the other hand, the underlying drivers include population growth, poverty, urbanization, policy failures, institutional failures and trade and globalization, as well as climate change and variability. (unu.edu)
  • Poverty reduction strategies are therefore a necessary ingredient of agriculture-led growth. (future-agricultures.org)
  • 2016). With the exception of spite a global decline in the number family member through their treat- hepatitis B virus in some but not all Af- of people living in extreme poverty, ment, in a hospital located up to sev- rican countries, efforts to reduce the Fig. 15.2 illustrates that the absolute eral hundred kilometres away? (who.int)
  • Unfortunately, declining water quality threatens the health of ecosystems and humans worldwide 2 . (cdc.gov)
  • The pet food market in Japan matured, and the growth has remained stagnant since the historic period. (researchandmarkets.com)
  • Here in Europe and other parts of the developed world, population growth is stagnant or declining. (who.int)
  • In the past few decades, Japan has experienced a rapid growth with various problems associated with urbanization. (bartleby.com)
  • Empty Planet," written by Canadians Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, tells readers that "The great defining event of the twenty-first century-one of the great defining events in human history-will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. (breakpoint.org)
  • Water demand within the donor basin by factoring present and future land use, especially cropping patterns, population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation, socio-economic development and environmental flow are hardly worked out. (thehindu.com)
  • China's working age population, those aged 16 to 64, started to decline in the mid-2010s, from 988 million in 2016 to 946 million in 2022. (channelnewsasia.com)
  • Platts Steel Markets North America 2016: More of the Same Analysts at the Platts Steel Markets North America conference predicted the major end markets for steel will experience little change in 2016, leading to a year of modest growth for the industry. (metalcenternews.com)
  • We're a little less optimistic about future growth and demand in the U.S. We've got demand in North America being flattish in 2016 and 2017, and then tailing off in our financial models," said Hilgert, senior equity analyst for Morningstar. (metalcenternews.com)
  • Various factors influence this deterioration, including population growth, rapid urbanization, land use, industrial discharge of chemicals, and factors resulting from climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • The new urbanization focuses more on the harmonious development of people, economy and environment, which helps to reduce emissions and mitigate global climate change. (frontiersin.org)
  • Home / Nature & Environment / Climate Change / Sustainable Cities: Governing Urban Adaptation Under Climate Change / What is Urbanization? (futurelearn.com)
  • Accompanied by the concentration of a large number population from countryside to cities, expansion of spatial scale, increase of residents' consumption income, and increase of infrastructure construction, urbanization inevitably requires a large amount of energy consumption, especially in countries with an energy composition based on fossil energy, and generates more carbon emissions ( Wang, 2017 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • However, the rate has declined over the past 30 years, from an average of 6.6 to 4.5 children per woman in the Region between 1980 and 2017. (who.int)
  • FAIR points to five key reasons on how mass immigration is adding to the pressures on Florida's environment: mass immigration fuels population growth, population growth exacerbates urban sprawl, urban sprawl threatens endangered species, and it further strains vital resources. (fairus.org)
  • Florida's native panther species is also declining and at risk of extinction because of urbanization in its habitat. (fairus.org)
  • It is difficult to determine whether North American pollinator species are declining, and no less challenging is determining the causes of putative declines or local extirpations. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Overall, urbanisation was perceived to influence the demand for medicinal plants, leading to the decline in their abundance, especially for species perceived to be of high medicinal and economic value. (ajol.info)
  • Kent and Haub also reported that most countries will experience population growth through 2050, as the world adds a projected 3 billion more people to the total. (livescience.com)
  • As a result, the increase in house prices constitutes a barrier to further urbanization and thereby influences the evolution of between-area inequality. (lu.se)
  • This paper uses a combination of economic reasoning with empirical evidence to review the fertility decline experienced in South, Southeast, and East Asia. (iseas.edu.sg)
  • An even greater boost is needed for emerging market and developing economies (other than China) given their recent sharp declines in investment and need for financing to support growth, development goals, and structural change, including rapid urbanization. (imf.org)
  • and moderate import growth in developing economies. (gfmag.com)
  • Graph shows world population growth history and projections. (livescience.com)
  • As shown in Figure 3-6 , percentage growth in the elderly age cohorts is predicted strongly by all projections. (grida.no)
  • Urbanization, though, is not a rigorously modeled phenomenon within the projections. (grida.no)
  • Instead, urbanization rates are considered implicitly within the projections of future fertility. (grida.no)
  • Still, longer-term projections indicate a substantial population decline. (newgeography.com)
  • Generally, opportunities for higher income are considered an important driver of rural-to-urban migration, and so contribute to rising urbanization rates (HABITAT, 1996). (grida.no)
  • High housing prices in the prosperous urban areas hinder the internal migration that would allow workers to move from the less developed rural areas to the urban economic centers and hence to benefit from the overall growth trend. (lu.se)
  • This transformation was accompanied by migration from the rural inland provinces to the urban growth centers along the eastern coast. (lu.se)
  • The substantial urban-rural earnings gap makes it attractive to live in the urban areas and within-country migration has allowed a larger chunk of the population to participate in the growth of the manufacturing sector. (lu.se)
  • in developing nations, in particular, many aspects of urban infrastructure are inadequate already for the needs of today's population, and accommodating rapid future growth will require major improvements in urban planning 1 , for which accurate population estimates are essential. (nature.com)
  • Urbanization will lead to a rapid expansion of infrastructure and especially transportation uses (Wexler, 1996). (grida.no)
  • With the improvement of infrastructure, the upgrading of advanced industrial structure, and the strengthening of environmental regulation, the inhibitory effect of new urbanization construction on carbon emissions tends to be enhanced. (frontiersin.org)
  • In these unplanned areas, basic services and infrastructure are unable to keep up with rapid population growth. (asiafoundation.org)
  • In fact, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences projected a population decline in 2022 by 0.49 in 1,000. (channelnewsasia.com)
  • North American apparent steel consumption declined 3.8 percent last year to 140.9 million tons. (metalcenternews.com)
  • The high rate of population growth and high level of urbanization in NCT, Delhi has resulted in over-development of ground water resources. (org.in)
  • Thus in about 75% area of NCT, Delhi ground water levels are declining at an alarming rate of 0.20 m per annum. (org.in)
  • Although our method is very simple and omits various aspects of urbanization, it nonetheless yields valuable insight into long-term SSP-specific urbanization trends to inform discussion of sustainable urban policies. (nature.com)
  • Florida is a microcosm of the harmful impact of rapid population growth that can only be slowed by rational and sustainable levels of new immigration. (fairus.org)
  • In recent years, China has been actively looking for a sustainable development path which inter-coordinate with urbanization and environment. (frontiersin.org)
  • it's imperative to build back better through sustainable, inclusive, and resilient growth. (imf.org)
  • After 1975, however growth declined significantly, dropping to 0.89 percent annually between 1975 and 1980 and finally dropping to 0.05 percent annually between 2005 and 2010 (Figure 1). (newgeography.com)
  • As a recent book, " Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline " put it, when it comes to immigration, "Hungary is as Hungarian as Japan is Japanese. (breakpoint.org)
  • In fact, FAIR has maintained that population growth, which is largely driven by immigration, has a negative impact on water quality. (fairus.org)
  • Immigration-driven population growth is no doubt an environmental issue. (fairus.org)
  • Demand for lithium-ion battery-based emergency lighting systems is being driven by sustained decline in the prices of Li-ion batteries and advancements in lithium ion technology. (yahoo.com)
  • For example, the intensification of small-scale farming in the Kano Close-Settled Zone of Nigeria during the nineteenth century was driven by demand growth for a range of commodities in its metropolitan market. (future-agricultures.org)
  • In addition, the fact pet food market in Japan is achieving growth is mainly driven by solid sales in both cat & dog pet food categories. (researchandmarkets.com)
  • The analysis of development dynamics in the 1990s shows that there has been an all-round decline in the growth of employment. (epw.in)
  • This course examines the social dynamics of urbanization, urban social structure, and urban development. (laroche.edu)
  • This course examines the origin, growth, and dynamics of social movements as forms of social protest and resistance against state and global injustices. (laroche.edu)
  • Continued declines in work age population mean that China can no longer rely on labour-intensive sectors and related exports for growth. (channelnewsasia.com)
  • Our results suggest that urban growth in this century will produce increasingly concentrated cities, some growing to enormous sizes. (nature.com)
  • Thanks to technological advances, the cost of renewable energy is declining, making it increasingly competitive with fossil fuels. (imf.org)
  • This combination of high birth rates and a "gradually declining death rate" is Stage Two. (breakpoint.org)
  • The decline in Japan's population growth rate has been precipitous. (newgeography.com)
  • Between 1970 and 1975, Japan experienced an annual population growth rate of 1.53 percent. (newgeography.com)
  • This was the fastest growth rate experienced by the nation since 1900, with the exception of the strong growth immediately after World War II, from 1945 to 1950. (newgeography.com)
  • While countries that achieve sustained and robust economic development often experience declining fertility rate, China's TFR of 1.3 is among the lowest in the world. (channelnewsasia.com)
  • In addition, the total fertility rate is declining in all regions. (who.int)
  • As more and more people settle into Florida, particularly in the Miami-area, the urban development needed to accommodate this growth will further strain the state's already-limited clean water supply and encroach deeper into the Everglades. (fairus.org)
  • Canada has experienced one of the smallest census-to-census growth rates in its population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The population of Newfoundland and Labrador declined for the second consecutive census period. (wikipedia.org)
  • The census of Japan, conducted every five years, however, still continues to show slight population growth, with 288,000 people having been added between 2005 and 2010. (newgeography.com)
  • Here, working within the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and using a simple urban-growth model, we estimate population trends throughout the 21st century for ~20,000 urban agglomerations in 151 countries. (nature.com)
  • indeed it can "unlock the inclusive growth story of the 21st century. (imf.org)
  • The article is based on the study that examined the impact urbanisation has had on the availability and accessibility of natural resources used for traditional medical practice as perceived by traditional health practitioners (THPs) and other relevant stakeholders. (ajol.info)
  • Florida has experienced tremendous rapid population growth in recent years, reaching nearly 22 million residents in 2021. (fairus.org)
  • For years, demographers have been predicting that the population of Japan would begin to decline. (newgeography.com)
  • Despite this economic downturn, urbanization of Ulaanbaatar continues unabated, as the capital's population has grown by 70 percent in the last 20 years. (asiafoundation.org)
  • Additionally, rapid urbanization, together with increasing disposable incomes of the global middle-class will fuel growth in the coming years. (yahoo.com)
  • The industry has been in growth mode for about seven years since the downturn, which is typically the extent of any upswing. (metalcenternews.com)
  • However, given the depths of the market in 2008-09, and the muted nature of the recovery, construction could squeeze out a few more growth years before the inevitable decline begins, Cross said. (metalcenternews.com)
  • By age, ≥90% had protective sero-immunity through age 69 years but prevalence of sero-immunity declined thereafter, with 75.8% of those aged ≥80 years having protective sero-immunity. (cdc.gov)
  • Kent, editor of the Population Bulletin , and Haub, a senior demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, reported that news of declining population in Europe fueled concern about a global "birth dearth," but there is continuing population growth in developing countries. (livescience.com)
  • By Dan Markham, Senior Editor Demand for steel from its primary consuming markets this year will look an awful lot like it did in 2015: automotive will remain robust, construction will show modest growth and the energy market will struggle. (metalcenternews.com)
  • Urbanization is one trend without an upside for the automakers. (metalcenternews.com)
  • Residential construction is more likely to continue to grow than nonres, Cross said, but the urbanization trend will ensure that residential gains won't drive much commercial and public spending. (metalcenternews.com)
  • This increase will be accompanied by a decline in the number of people per household (a process already observed in industrialized countries) and is related to reduced fertility rates. (grida.no)
  • Although the extent of urbanization is expected to increase from 68 percent to 80 percent, the overall urban population is expected to decline. (newgeography.com)
  • China's long-term static energy structure determines that the increase of urbanization level is along with the increase of carbon emissions ( Yang and Chen, 2013 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • There has also been an increase in urbanization levels, greater female education and labour force participation, and demand for skilled labour. (iseas.edu.sg)
  • The decline in the share of migrants moving in search of employment and an increase in business and study-related mobility further confirms this proposition. (epw.in)
  • It also looks at how globalization has impacted various cities around the world in terms of their growths and declines. (laroche.edu)
  • This growth was so small that the nation of Japan added fewer people than seven US metropolitan areas (Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Washington, Atlanta, Riverside-San Bernardino, Phoenix and Raleigh) and less than the Toronto metropolitan area over the same period of time. (newgeography.com)
  • This initiative aims to prevent outward growth of the ger areas by halting the construction of new settlements and by prohibiting the expansion of electrical lines and water pipelines. (asiafoundation.org)
  • The physical growth of Palapye resulted in the absorption of nearby natural woodlands and the dwindling medicinal plant stocks in Palapye's wild environment and adjacent areas. (ajol.info)
  • To allow for a meaningful comparison between urban areas, despite having historically diverse urban growth processes, we can quantify urban growth through the amount of land that expanding urban agglomerations physically occupy. (futurelearn.com)
  • The study focuses on microscopic impact of this new urbanization on carbon emissions, which has received little attention previously. (frontiersin.org)
  • The results show that the new urbanization pilot policy can effectively diminish carbon emissions, and the sensitivity of pilot policy to per capita carbon emissions is greater than the intensity of carbon emissions, and the emission reduction effect of pilot policy of new urbanization tends to be enhanced with the implementation of pilot policy. (frontiersin.org)
  • Since 1970, most urban growth has taken place in developing countries. (grida.no)
  • Essentially, future urban and rural growth and decline rates are simply assumed and applied to the projected population levels. (grida.no)
  • This future urbanization of over another million square kilometers of land (roughly the size of countries like Ethiopia or Bolivia) presents us with challenges, but also with the opportunity to get urban adaptation right. (futurelearn.com)
  • Another advantage of the method is the opportunity to produce food right where it is consumed - in the cities (urban farming), what will gain even more relevance in the future regarding the predicted decline in farmland ( www.fao.org ). (zhaw.ch)
  • However, increasing urbanization and decreasing weight-bearing exercise as a result are likely to also contribute in developing countries. (medscape.com)
  • Urbanization, changing in cancer has been conducted in but many issues are also relevant in diets, increasing prevalence of obe- high-income countries despite the other resource-limited settings. (who.int)
  • Innovativeness and policy framework for resource conservation and utilization became unfriendly in addition to gradual decline of community management. (scirp.org)