But they show that the underlying population pressure for additional houses has become even stronger.
Due to massive population pressure in the 1950s, city officials began developing land farther outside Cairo.
But here we have another thing, pure and simple population pressure, that might do us all in over this same time scale.
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The disappearance of the lake is being caused by climate change, population pressure and natural variations in climate, the FAO said.
Across the world climate change is set to exacerbate problems where poor land use and population pressure is already putting an immense strain on finely balanced ecologies.
Pupils in England could be taught in bigger classes and by unqualified staff from next September, as a rising population puts pressure on school capacity, Labour has said.
In west Africa, the land along the southern fringe of the Sahara desert is particularly fragile, and every year the growing population puts more pressure on the environment.
It might boost the economy and reduce the pressure of population in some fragile places.
Indeed, with ever fewer workers to support a ballooning retired population, there is pressure to increase, not cut, labor taxes.
Prof Benton added that evolutionary change added an additional pressure to population management schemes, namely that it was much more difficult to reverse than ecological change.
Metropolitan Portland's 1.5 million population is already putting pressure on housing needs within the urban growth boundary, and another 700, 000 people are expected to move to the area during the next 20 years.
Perhaps, then, slower population growth would reduce the pressure on fragile environments and conserve unpriced resources?
Concerns were raised in March over the financial pressure an ageing population would put on services in the island.
Providing modern contraception also has the potential to stem population growth and relieve human pressure on the environment and natural resources.
Population growth is also putting pressure on children's services in many areas.
Rapid population growth has put enormous pressure on agricultural systems that have been pushed towards unsustainable farming practices in order to cope with demand.
The government here has been cautious about tackling health reform in the past but an ageing population is now putting more pressure on the health service than ever while providing less tax revenue to fund it.
The human population exploded and without natural selection pressure, fecundity in the types economic activity flourished.
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Looking to 2030, he fears that the burdens of an ageing population will eventually lead to upward pressure on inflation.
Land-ownership is important in peasant societies, especially so in Zimbabwe, where the pressure of an exploding population is combined with a pattern of holdings not greatly changed from that inherited at independence, and memories endure of the tracts that were awarded by the colonial government to whites.
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The population is growing rapidly, putting more pressure on water supply because demand is increasing but supply is not.
The government estimates 380, 000 Syrians are in Jordan, a country whose government is under pressure from its own restive population and still dealing with huge refugee populations from other wars.
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The pressure of a desperately poor and growing population has led to the indiscriminate felling of trees, for fuel as well as to increase cultivable acreage.
This creates a selection pressure which drives the genes through the population, as the offspring of wild flies die more often than those of engineered or hybrid flies.
Many factors are causing coffee's problems, experts say, including climate changes in some coffee-growing areas and population growth in Central America, which has led to pressure to convert coffee plots into housing and shopping malls.
The generic industry is being driven by the aging of the population, escalating health care costs, political and financial pressure to accommodate generic drug growth, and increased generic penetration, especially in Japan, Italy, Spain and France.
Labour MP Frank Field and Conservative Nicholas Soames - who campaign on the issue of immigration - said it was "more evidence of the pressure that uncontrolled immigration will place on our population, and therefore our quality of life".
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