As this article from the Fulton County Daily Report (10/17/07) describes, record droughts across Atlanta are leading to increased litigation over
how scarce resources will be allocated.
She touched so many people's lives — in Kenya, across Africa, and around the world — because she embodied values and characteristics that they wanted in themselves: to aspire to an idea bigger than themselves and to make a difference no matter what their station or
how scarce their resources.
The study of
how scarce resources are allocated among competing uses.
Those with money could set the rules governing
how scarce resources should be invested.
Not exact matches
Behind all this banter lies a big idea: That by de-emphasizing economic growth and considering other things that people value, societies could make much better decisions about
how to use their
scarce resources.
People are mindful when they spend a limited
resource, but they may not understand
how scarce an organization's time is.
In spite of
how much communities desire entrepreneurship, first - time entrepreneurs often find themselves in a desert of
scarce resources.
Basically, it is the study of
how societies make efficient use of
scarce resources.
Economics is the study of
how men and society end up choosing, with or without the use of money, to employ
scarce productive
resources that could have alternative uses, to produce various commodities and distribute them for consumption, now or in the future, among various people and groups in society.
The study of
how to distribute
scarce resources among alternative ends.
The study of supply and demand in markets and
how they allocate
scarce resources.
The study of
how individuals and societies choose to allocate
scarce productive
resources among competing alternative uses and to distribute the products from these uses among the members of the society.
In addition, religious leaders often have the stature to advocate and negotiate with the most senior national decision - makers as countries make tough decisions on
how to allocate
scarce resources for health.
How do we live in a world of
scarce resources?»
If your audience is no longer glued to local network broadcasts, eyes firmly on your ads for lack of other options,
how do you use
scarce resources to first find them and then target them with the appropriate messages?
The project studies water
resources in the Phoenix area with the goal of understanding decisions about
scarce water
resources and their impacts:
How do water managers think about climate uncertainty?
An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for
scarce food in the desert often face a similar dilemma:
How long should they look for more of their needed
resource before they move on to look elsewhere?
It revealed the molecular mechanism behind
how these hamsters avoid breeding in the fall and winter, thereby preventing births during the cold,
resource -
scarce winter months.
Wasser hadn't come to Africa to work on elephants; he was there studying
how female baboons curtail their reproduction when
resources grow
scarce, and he was interested in measuring changes in the hormones that regulate stress and reproduction.
Understanding
how to connect with and influence others is a critical skill in science, especially in an environment of
scarce resources.
When a mother and her developing baby are subject to nutritional deficiencies,
how does evolution partition
scarce resources?
On this surface level, the guidebook answers philanthropists» «
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How should I allocate my
scarce resources to maximize impact?»
Maintaining focus requires discipline to determine
how to use financial and human capital — especially when good initiatives might consume
scarce resources.
Financial pressures force schools to make difficult decisions about
how to allocate
scarce resources, and field trips are increasingly seen as an unnecessary frill.
Educational policymakers around the globe regularly make tough decisions about
how to improve their educational systems with the
scarce resources available to them.
Therefore, it is not a decision about
how to target
scarce resources to one specific subgroup at the expense of another.
Our hope is to make this tool publicly available so that governments and agencies can track children's development globally over time, and make more informed decisions about
how to allocate
scarce resources to benefit the largest number of children.
Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter
how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting
scarce public
resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.
The real questions in Arizona public education today involve
how we will best utilize
scarce resources in order to provide a quality education for EVERY student; the most effective ways to replicate successful, innovative schools; and the fastest means to develop these schools in the neighborhoods where they are needed most.
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how to provide excellence in rural education, despite the challenges faced when
resources are
scarce
Her efforts were largely focused in her home state of Michigan, where 80 percent of state charter schools are run by for - profit entities with little transparency around
how those schools spend public money, and charter and traditional schools are wasting
scarce resources competing for students.
Those that run non-profits look at
how they have done on their missions, amid
scarce resources.
How can anyone justify unnecessary waste (needing to wear sweaters inside during the summer, stripping down to t - shirts inside in the winter, driving around or waiting for several minutes to get 1 parking lot row closer to a building door, throwing petroleum - based plastic and other
scarce resources in land - fills???)?
The more scientists and journalists talk, the more likely it is that the public — through the media — will appreciate what science can (and can not) offer as society grapples with difficult questions about
how to invest
scarce resources.
Observe
how the global warming alarmists, scientists and politicians alike, are gradually preparing their exit routes, after decades of false scaremongering and fraudulent misappropriation of
scarce global
resources on a fabricated, non-existent crisis.
b) almost as a rule, jurisdictions have measures that constrain most exploitation of specific
scarce resources — this is the very basis of Capitalism — and so are familiar with
how well this generally works, for instance with mobile telecommunications and the regulated auction of bandwidth, or laws against kidnap or extortion for ransom;
How should
scarce public
resources be applied?
If this represents a sensible use of
scarce resources, I would love to hear acclaimed climate expert and economist Leonardo DiCaprio explain
how.
In all facets of life, people must make decisions about
how to allocate
scarce resources.
The responses of humans to climate change —
how humans use
resources when they become more
scarce, or migrate as sea levels rise — will have a major impact.
A separate agreed programme among skeptical scientists to cooperate to advance specific areas would help because it would focus attention on
how the science isn't settled, and focus the use of
scarce resources to best effect.
How are climate change,
scarcer resources, population growth and other challenges reshaping society?
In a time when we're struggling to figure out
how we're going to feed everyone in the face of a changing climate, severe droughts, and increasingly
scarce freshwater
resources, the news that we currently waste about a third of all the food produced in the US should be cause for serious concern.
So
how does a case like this wend its way through our clogged system, squandering
scarce judicial and community
resources, while no one watches the public purse?
Whether providing greater legal representation in civil cases to the less fortunate serves a social good and, if so,
how best to allocate
scarce resources to accomplish that goal is certainly worthy of debate for a democratic society to undertake via the legislative process.
Put another way, as long as they pay their $ 127 to bring a motion, parties can litigate away without regard for
how their conduct is affecting the use of a
scarce public
resource...
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.
With interest rates at low levels for many years now, IOLTA incomes remain historically low and law foundations across the country are considering
how best to allocate
scarce resources to organizations on the frontlines of access to justice.
As a result of the
scarce judicial
resources, judges must make decisions about
how to best use these
resources if the public system wants to maintain its position as the primary system in adjudicating civil disputes and in driving the development of civil case law.
Like adult detainees, juvenile detainees with serious mental disorders have a constitutional right (under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments) to receive needed treatment.5 Mental health professionals believe that providing psychiatric services to juvenile detainees could improve their quality of life and help reduce recidivism.6 - 8 Until we have better data, we can not know
how best to use the system's
scarce mental health
resources.9, 10