Role of Urban Centres in Regional Development

Concentrated in major centres in Cyprus

The two major sources of solid waste in the marine environment are urban centres (up to 75 per cent) and commercial and tourist activities

The department provides 14.1 million in annual operating funding for 17 emergency transitional shelters and four service providers located primarily in Alberta's major urban centres.

Malawi continues to establish youth centres in urban and rural areas.

UNHCR supports local settlement projects in rural areas and urban centres.

In the urban centres almost everything was destroyed by the cyclone.

The large majority of their populations already lives in urban centres.

The major roads connecting the major urban centres, in particular Route 13, have been significantly upgraded in recent years, but villages far from major roads can be reached only through unpaved roads that may not be accessible year round.

The Government of Sri Lanka regarded the urban centres that were emerging all over the country as a major driving force in the expansion of its economy.

Urban poverty and the urban environment were among the major issues discussed at the Conference.

The transfer of three other major urban centres in the West Bank Nablus, Jenin and Hebron has been left by the parties for discussion at a later date.

The issue is much more evident in small and medium sized urban centres

New growth centres are being created to reduce pressure on existing urban areas.

Day care centres were a new and expensive phenomenon in the urban areas.

Immigrants and members of visible minority communities, who make up 28 per cent of Canadian youth, tend to live in major urban centres and face linguistic and cultural challenges.

Second, by the creation of economic opportunities in urban centres and areas outside drylands.

Most coastal urban centres do not have a municipal policy for solid waste management

Many refugees and asylum seekers were detained for being in urban centres without authorization.

Canada has also completed development and construction of EMSAT, a mobile telecommunications satellite that will provide users in remote regions with services comparable to those available in major urban centres.

Coastal urban centres are generating annually 30 to 40 million tonnes of municipal solid waste.

Preschool education is not regulated by organic law and exists only in certain urban centres.

Structure plans have been prepared for four urban centres with a view to strengthening national institutions for the management of the urbanization process and to promoting the role of urban centres in economic development, among other activities.

Upgrading Women's Studies Centres at five major universities to full fledged departments.

In the urban centres life expectancy for women is 74 years compared to 67 years for men.

Sea disposal of solid wastes is still a common practice for small and medium sized urban centres

The perceived employment opportunities in urban centres induces many of the rural underemployed and unemployed to migrate.

The Government is planning to set up such centres in all major cities.

The major waste problems occur in urban areas, coastal areas and the seas.

The mine cannot hire all those who need employment in the province of Espinar, located 4,000 metres above sea level and far from major urban centres, where few economic activities offer any prospect of success.

Australia is for historical and geographical reasons reliant upon fossil fuel dependent road transport because of the dispersed distribution of population centres across the continent and the low density of settlements within major urban areas.

With the rapidly changing social environment, even this safety net is fraying, most notably in the urban centres.

The project is expected to provide recommendations and demonstrate practical strategies in this field for other urban centres.

Agricultural land surrounding urban centres is often converted into squatter settlements, housing thousands of migrants from the countryside.

In the urban centres, virtually all commercial, private and public installations had either been destroyed or seriously damaged.

A major vaccination campaign and vitamin A programme was undertaken in all reception centres.

The development of municipal governance in particular has become important in view of the continued growth of urban centres.

359. Less than one third of the populations of Africa and Asia lives in urban centres, while three quarters of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean is urban.

The study shows that the major source of litter into the marine environment is from coastal urban centres owing to the lack of coastal solid waste management, to inadequate management or to the failure of such management.

Major conurbations The Greater London Urban Area is by far the largest urban area in England and one of the busiest cities in the world.

In the 21st century, modern pharmaceuticals and medical procedures remain inaccessible to large numbers of African people due to their relatively high cost and concentration of health centres in urban centres.

Living conditions in the urban centres of some of those countries have become so difficult that urban out migration is being experienced for the first time since the Second World War.

Habitat II would have to address the problems of overcrowded urban centres, slums and shanty towns phenomena resulting from urban migration which was a problem that urgently needed to be addressed.

Also notable are the high economic growth rates in Afghanistan's urban centres over the past three and a half years.

One company is responsible for producing and distributing electricity in the Niger and it covers only the main urban centres.