Left unchecked, it will magnify existing problems and increase pressure on resources including land, water, energy, food and fish stocks.
Investment in these dimensions would not increase strain on resources, with potential benefit.
Focus is increasing on resource extraction in places such as the Athabasca tar sands, vast petroleum-rich soil deposits in northern Alberta.
A continuous increase in urban population strains the limited resources of a city, affects its resilience to the increasing demands on resources and urban governance faces ever increasing challenges.
World population growth has already had effects, increasing pressure on resources in general, especially energy, and their price levels.
Globalisation, the obsession with growth and the Asian boom have increased pressure on resources and climate.
Similar experiments with macro-parasites in vertebrates suggest that increased virulence could be the result of the costs of strain-specific immunity and an increased call on resources (Read and Taylor 2001).
Combined with an increased demand on resources, scores to identify patients who would most benefit are being increasingly used.
Combined with an increased demand on resources, scores to identify those patients who would most benefit are being increasingly used.
The Association of Chief Police Officers says in its guidance that such income generation can "help forces counter the effects of declining budgets and increasing pressure on resources".
