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John Fielding, CEO
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Economic Growth Economic activities of Jakarta have increased at a higher growth rate than the population.
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Ben Werner, Student Newspaper Editor
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This was not helped by the rapid growth of towns and cities in the Industrial Revolution, with a failure of the Anglican parish system to adequately cover the needs of the new urban populations - the Church of England remained rooted in a rural parish system.
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Brian Mengel, Civil Servant
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Present indications are that the moratorium imposed in the Chesapeake Bay and more stringent harvest regulations have resulted in growth of the Chesapeake and Hudson River populations and that recovery is underway.
Therefore, national population growth should also be quantitatively discussed in sprawl program materials, using current US Census Bureau mid-range projections, which are considered to be the most likely outcome.
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Zhang Xian Qian, Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Prostate cancer growth is stimulated by male hormones, and high hormone levels have been linked to risk for the disease in various populations.
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Arthur Dawkins, Astro-physicist
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A project is in progress aimed at evaluating the relative growth performance of five yabby populations and at obtaining estimates of genetic parameters for economically important traits.
Populations introduces the concept of mathematical modelling by applying it to the prediction of the growth of fish stocks in the North Sea.
All these elements are proof or testimony to an uncontrolled growth of human populations and human activities leading to endangerment of the reefs.
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Josh Hogan, Commander
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Rapid population growth is placing Saudi Arabias existing water supply and waste water infrastructure under tremendous pressure and the problem is particularly acute in Riyadh where the population will double within the next 10 years.
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Bob Greenberg, Congressional Candidate
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Ignoring population growth, relying on Smart Growth as the sole means of curbing sprawl is ultimately delusive an exercise in winning battles, but losing the war.
Rapid population growth and economic change are occurring in a state increasingly characterized by a limited supply of developable land, environmental stress at the metropolitan fringe, and older communities in transition.
In places where analyses show that sprawl is due to population growth, the discussion in future sprawl reports should focus on this population growth and how to stop it.
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