Urbanization

And quite interestingly, over something like a 60 year period, we're seeing the doubling in life expectancy, over that period where the urbanization has trebled.

Over time, urbanization was unavoidable as cities remained the centre of economic growth and attracted people searching for better living conditions.

1.2.3 Spatial Distribution Migrations and Urbanization

Urbanization also became a major concern.

And that urbanization is extraordinary, accelerated pace.

Urbanization, integration, coming together, leads to a new renaissance.

You think of, you know, urbanization, consumerism, the workplace, technology.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

The urbanization of poverty and the increasing vulnerability of youth

However, it's hard sometimes to remember the extent of that urbanization.

The world is changing though, and urbanization is a big driver of everything.

Urbanization and the concentration of people in hazard prone areas are but two examples.

The urbanization process has significant implications in demographic characteristics of population and family units.

In Asia, the rate of urbanization had been less rapid because of agricultural sector development.

There has also been a rapid increase in urbanization in most non Annex I Parties.

It was just a much smaller city, and the pace of urbanization is incredible and enormous.

Urban poverty, however, threatened national stability and it was therefore necessary to formulate sustainable urbanization policies.

Fifty seventh session Threats to Human, Regional Security from HIV AIDS Urbanization of Poverty, April 2001.

The dominant demographic event of our time is this screamingly rapid urbanization that we have going on.

Ms. Tibaijuka (Executive Director of UN Habitat) said that sustainable urbanization was a condition for sustainable development.

The Tenth Development Plan, which began in 2003, incorporated shelter and urbanization issues into national development policies.

Growing urbanization has led to people living in inhuman conditions, particularly in the shantytowns of Port au Prince.

As global investors navigate the uncertain waters of emerging markets in the next few years, they should remember that, for these economies, the wave of industrialization and urbanization and the associated productivity gains are far from over. With their faster growing populations and productivity, they will enjoy a growth advantage over developed economies for some time to come.

Rapid urbanization, especially in Africa, was a threat to sustainable development and could not coexist with high population growth.

The wave of urbanization that all countries were experiencing was intensifying and exerting pressure on land, housing and sanitation.

When humans began to move out of Africa, they carried some of their pathogens to new areas, where they switched over to native hosts while native pathogens took up residence in the newly arrived humans. Agriculture and urbanization subsequently exposed us to yet more pathogens.

They frequently explore themes of globalization and urbanization, and their home of Delhi is a frequent element in their work.

Two themes were considered for 2007 (a) the changing age structure of populations and development and (b) urbanization and development.

Persistent levels of poverty over the last decade, rapid urbanization and emerging social manifestations of transition from a command to a market economy, combined with a lack of institutions and resources to deal with these unintended consequences, continue to be major challenges for children from vulnerable families.

Aware of rapid urbanization trends in developing countries and related challenges in shelter provision, eradicating poverty and sustainable human settlements development,

Considering the increasing need to innovate in agriculture and food production to adapt, inter alia, to climate change, urbanization and globalization,

The main objective of these training activities is to achieve sustainable urbanization in the context of increasing responsibilities of local authorities.

Pursuant to Governing Council resolution 19 10, entitled Urban rural linkages and sustainable urbanization , the Programme has pursued normative and operational activities.

Several casebooks have been developed, including Lessons Learned in Implementing the Habitat Agenda and Sustainable Urbanization Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas.

With 37 per cent of its population already living in cities, Africa's urbanization rate would be approximately 48 per cent by 2015.

The Williams Treaties concerned however lands in close proximity of urbanization and protection of these rights for subsistence were not an issue.

The world is undergoing an unprecedented and irreversible wave of urbanization, with the share of the global population living in cities set to reach 60 by 2030. But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.

The Secretary General had rightly pointed out that in many developing countries poverty reduction strategies were not being linked to sustainable urbanization policies.

Other Parties used vulnerability indices, such as population distribution and growth, urbanization, mortality and water consumption, to evaluate the vulnerability of human settlements.

Given that promoting sustainable urbanization and improving coordination would bolster progress in other priority areas (including women s rights, climate change, youth unemployment, and literacy), sustainable urbanization must become a bureaucratic priority. And it must be complemented by a technological disruption, with investments channeled toward developing and distributing innovations that would make cities more livable, efficient, and sustainable.

Areas with a lot of economic activity with a lot of roads, with a lot of urbanization those areas have higher prevalence than others.

Several United Nations system organizations are working together to help eradicate poverty in urban areas, to promote sustainable urbanization and to enhance industrial development.

Urbanization was so rapid that cities could not fully absorb the new pool of labour, thus giving rise to the phenomenon of urban poverty.

Some Parties adopted a sectoral approach to integrating climate change concerns into development planning of the economy, urbanization, the environment and ecosystems, and forestry.