Woo is also hopeful about China because of urbanization and the spread of high-speed rail.
Many eventually went into real estate, where demand was also good because of rapid urbanization and demographic change.
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The researchers said Mozambique Channel in particular is facing pressures from population growth, overfishing, urbanization and energy exploration.
And some are at the stage of specifying areas that could see investment breakthroughs like urbanization and rural reforms.
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However, the sector continues to hold its long-term growth factors of increasing global urbanization and growing energy demand from emerging economies.
He begins by citing five attributes that will enable cars to address the trends of urbanization and aging small, shared, electric, networked, autonomous.
Such differences result from various assumptions regarding unknowns such as changing urbanization and other land use influences that contaminate surface temperature recordings.
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Unexpectedly, urbanization and education is creating a further divide between the sexes.
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The hillside was once covered in rich vegetation but trees had been felled over time to make room for urbanization and small-scale agriculture.
Habitat, says the organization is helping Kenya to tackle some of the challenges brought about by population growth, urbanization and a rapid increase in motor-vehicle ownership.
These native plants, found in nature before urbanization and modern development, are short by nature, reducing the amount of mowing required for them to stay low.
Compounding this imbalance is the fact that continuing urbanization and property development have taken large amounts of farmland out of production, threatening grain supply and agricultural development.
He also raised the issue of the competition over water, which is increasing worldwide and will deepen with population growth, urbanization and the impacts of climate change.
Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends.
Global population growth, increased urbanization and rising energy consumption will continue to drive the need for sustainable solutions and manufacturers have a substantial role in developing sustainable solutions that address these drivers.
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This dynamic can be seen not just in economic life but in the evolution of all things, from cuisine, urbanization and legal systems to our own existence as a species on this planet.
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And expectations are the population and GDP growth in these countries will eclipse those of the developed world, resulting in rapid urbanization and expansion of the middle class in the emerging markets, says Awad.
The deserted mall is also a symbol of China's rapid urbanization and runaway investment in real estate projects, where massive development projects have been given the go ahead without proper marketing and business research.
However, there are numerous factors endangering its viability, such as social changes resulting from urbanization and industrialization, the influence of national and foreign cultures, and the migration of young Uygur to cities for work.
The FAO also reports that food production needs to rise by 70% in the next 40 years to meet population growth, while there will be less available land due to urbanization and climate change.
IKEA's biggest markets include Germany, the U.S., France and the U.K. Mr. Ohlsson said in an interview last year that high urbanization and growing middle classes in emerging markets make them an important source of revenue growth.
The speakers before me laid out the demographic case for the inevitability of a great many changes the aging populations of small towns, increasing urbanization and the steep decline of conventional manufacturing bases in small industrial cities across Ontario and around the world.
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Urbanization and rapid social changes, which have split extended families and sent all those who are capable of working into the marketplace, mean that many hands once available to care for elderly relatives - whether suffering from dementia or simple infirmity - are not there.
Due to pressure on land resources, urbanization and social transformations, the traditions and cultural practices associated to the Kaya settlements are fast diminishing, posing great danger to the social fabric and cohesiveness of the Mijikenda communities who venerate and celebrate them as their identity and symbol of continuity.
As natural disasters and wars rip apart societies, and as large-scale modernization projects, urbanization, and transnational migration bring about sudden dislocations, the endurance of cultural beliefs, values, practices, and knowledge, and their transmission across generations have become significant concerns.
Intel notes the inarguable trends in a growing global population, urbanization, and automobile ownership which will continue to make physical travel more time consuming, expensive and an impossible hassle.
In addition, the long-term growth factors for Caterpillar remain intact as rising world population, prosperity and urbanization will increase demand for energy and resources, promoting growth across its industrial businesses: construction, mining and power systems.
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"We expect regional development and urbanization, industrial upgrading, fostering small and medium enterprise development to be some of the main themes, " she wrote in a research note.
This population growth coupled with industrialization and urbanization in developing markets like China, India and Africa will result in an increasing demand for water.
But as China hurtles headlong into rampant modernization and urbanization, producing millions of new homeowners, its social fabric and thousands of years of its history will no doubt become fundamentally, and irrevocably, altered.
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