Cheap gasoline encouraged automobile ownership, which provided a substantial revenue source to the government, leading to the rapid expansion of highway development.
It is speculated that the increase in wildfires arises from a century of wildfire suppression coupled with the rapid expansion of human developments into fire-prone wildlands.
This is due to an increasing demand, fast growth of population density, rapid expansion of urbanization, high development of factories and industrial activities as micro- and macroscales, very poor management wastes and watershed management.
The rapid expansion of shale gas development within the northern Appalachians results in direct loss of such habitat at well sites, pipelines, and access roads; however the resulting habitat fragmentation surrounding such areas may be of greater importance.
Over the past few decades, a rapid expansion of fossil fuel development has converted those lands from net carbon sinks -- meaning they absorb more carbon dioxide than they emit -- into tremendous carbon emitters.
Now, as back then, legislation simply cannot keep the pace with the rapid expansion of nanotechnology research and development.
Positive rhetoric that promises broad social benefits has driven the rapid expansion of the sport-for-development sector since the UN International Year of Sport and Physical Education in 2005.
During tumor development, rapid expansion of cancer cells creates a hypoxic microenvironment that is followed by periods of reoxygenation to promote tumor progression.
However, there are also differences, for example in legislation and the funding of long-term care, the design and number of small-scale living facilities (more facilities in the Netherlands), the group size (groups are generally smaller in the Netherlands) and the speed of development (a more rapid expansion of small-scale living can be observed in the Netherlands) [ 8, 25].
With the rapid expansion of community owned energy comes the development of local smart grids to replace the now outmoded national grids.
