Sentences with phrase «demand for these scarce resources»

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In this perspective, energy conservation plays the role of decreasing world energy demand, decreasing the need for both nuclear power (and its attendant problems) and scarce mineral resources.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

Greinke is still in demand because starting pitching is so scarce, which means there's an argument for keeping the scarce resource around.

Never before have resources been so scarce and demand for services so high.»

Which makes the Carbon Cycle's services scarce, as they exhibit a limit that is exceeded by demand for the resource.

As for destruction of the economy, tell me, what should a fiscal conservative believe more harmful to the economy: obsolete technology propped up by corrupt governments, subsidies and tax gifts while a scarce private resource goes to whatever wastrel wants it for free; or, applying the Law of Supply and Demand to the scarce, capitalizable, rivalrous, excludable, marketable carbon cycle to let the democracy of Free Enterprise decide the right level of its exploitation?

The book is an operating manual for adaptation to three mega-trends that the author says every business must face: climate change, resource constraints (and costs) and technology - driven demands for transparency — or «hotter, scarcer and more open.»

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

As tuition revenue decreases due to slackened demand for legal education, we will see how these same decision makers re-allocate scarce resources among competing wants and needs.

Literature on bGT for depression remains scarce, as there do not exist any published articles prior to our first proof of concept study.35 Due to the demand for low - threshold treatments, 36 we designed a CBT - based psychoeducational intervention entailing principles of resource - oriented psychotherapy and self - management therapy.