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Sustainable Development Indicator (SDI) Group SDI
Issue: Land Use/Urban Decay SDI Framework Element: Urban Urban Characteristic: Number of Cities Urban Energy Consumption (361) Definition: Energy consumed in urban areas as a percentage of total ... Related Products and Power Finished Fuels and Related Products and Power Characteristic: Energy Urban Migration (412) Definition: Number of people moving into cities greater than 100,000 Issue: ...
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Land Use Candidate SDI
Candidate SDI: Urban Public Parks (31 PCSD) Definition: urban green space, park space, and recreational areas SDI Framework Element: Urban (1.2.2.7) ... of Land Urban Land Conversion (20 PCSD) Definition: land area converted to urban use per year SDI Framework Element: Ecosystems, Land (1.2.2) Element Characteristic: Area of Land Urban Migration ...
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Tabe - Rural Population in China by Selected Definition, 1978 - 1990
China Statistical Yearbook to calculate the urban population in million. Source: This table was adapted from information in: Jianfa Shen (1995): Rural Development and Rural to Urban Migration in China 1978 - 1990. In ...
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IISD RS @ Third World Urban Forum (WUF3); Vancouver, Canada; Highlights for Friday, 23 June 2006
Lois Jackson, Chair, Greater Vancouver Regional District, noted that urban migration is caused by both lack of rural opportunities and the lure of the city, ... Colombia WUF website University of British Colombia's WUF website IDRC World Urban Forum and Youth CITYMAYORS World Urban Forum and LEAD Habitat +30 Habitat Jam Canada Mortgage and Housing ...
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GEO-2000: Chapter Two: The State of the Environment - North America - Urban areas
North America Urban areas North America urbanized rapidly early in the 20th century under the combined pressures of population increases, immigration from other regions, and rural/urban migration. Later, ... stabilize local air pollution problems despite the rise in vehicle emissions associated with urban sprawl and increased commuter distances. Production of municipal waste year total (1000 tonnes) ...
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Urban Environmental Management: LINKS
LEAD: Leadership for Environment and Development NAAEC: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) NASA: The Urban Environment Initiative (UEI) SEI: Stockholm Environment Institute's Urban Environment Programme UNCHS: The Urban ...
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Table - Migration between Provinces
They merely indicate the official inter-provincial migration within a five-year period, which is small compared with the actual population movements. It ... population of 2-3 million people. There is also an unknown number of illegal rural-urban migrants who have permanently moved to large cities and towns. They have found housing and ...
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Tourism and Migration | Planeta
IOL Tourism and Migration - Association of Social Anthropologists Pros and Cons of International Migration - IPS Cumbre de Comunidades Migrantes Latino Americanas (Mexico) Migration and corn - Huffington Post Tourism and Migration ... Tourism and Climate Change 2008 Ecotourism Challenges Dialogue 2007 Urban Ecotourism Conference September 2004 Environmental Impact of Transportation October ...
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California's urban protected areas: Progress despite daunting pressures
U.S. states (about 32 percent) or other countries (22 percent). Population growth, combined with an attachment to a spread-out, car-centered lifestyle, has led to urban ... Most protected areas have not been designed to protect biodiversity, and many of the wildlife migration corridors still existing are in danger of development, especially around Los Angeles (CWC 2001). ...
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ECOTEC - Urban Living Green Book Appraisals
We need more homes - but we need better designed, more ... housing strategy and policy; Understand market change -- migration, private rented sector, affordability; Evaluate your effectiveness; Plan and manage your activities. Service Portfolio: Urban Living Green Book Appraisals Building on our ...
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