Sentences with phrase «include scarcity»

These notable properties include scarcity, value, and portability.

But Espaillat insisted that the issues, including the scarcity of affordable housing, immigration reform, low wages, and poor health outcomes, were of universal significance.

There are severe constraints on scientific research in many of the least developed countries (LDCs), including a scarcity of qualified personnel, poor laboratory infrastructure, and no local investment in research.

Plenty of other female critics, besides me, are flagging the problem, which includes a scarcity of substantial and complex female characters in narrative films, whether Hollywood or indie, that fail to pass the Bechdel test (at least one scene with two female characters who have names, talking to each other about anything other than a man).

But major barriers — including a scarcity of high - quality, teacher - training programs targeted at teachers of color; the educational debt students of color must shoulder; and the general lack of esteem in our society for teaching — stand in the way of producing an optimal pool of teachers.

Not exact matches

Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

«Overstock is pro-freedom, including the freedom of individuals to communicate information about value and scarcity without relying on a medium created through the fiat of unaccountable government mandarins.

The IRS doesn't provide a formula for value determination, so you should consider all of the items» factors, including desirability and scarcity.

However, factors including anonymity and scarcity are in favor of the coin.

This leads a lot of us (myself included) to experience poverty as a trial that has a purpose, when really scarcity is never part of the deal with God.

First, although it is very important to see that development includes more than merely reducing economic scarcity, it seems unhelpful to define poverty as «deprivation of basic capabilities»» i.e., the absence of freedom.

Hormel Foods also recognizes that water scarcity and sourcing from water stressed regions is a growing concern across all industries — including the food industry — and companies need to play an active role in ceasing this trend.

These include such enduring hurdles as stakeholder resistance, resource scarcity and profitability concerns.

These include a lack of research into innovative practice in parliamentary strengthening, a scarcity of information about how particular programmes or approaches have been successfully adapted to different contexts, and an inadequate understanding of the different actors that engage in parliamentary strengthening and their distinct approaches to that task.

He explained that the initial amount budgeted for the settlement of subsidy claims only covered the period from January to September adding that it was important to include October to December in the budget in order to avert scarcity of fuel.

Writing in the journal, Conservation Biology, scientists recommend the adoption of measures to mitigate against a range of effects including; food scarcity (where fisheries compete for the same resources), being caught in fishing nets, oil pollution and climate change.

The letter, which was spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warns of the numerous threats posed by climate change — including extreme weather events, regional water scarcity, heat waves and wildfires.

There are, of course, multiple problems associated with growing global demand for metals, including the environmental consequences of extraction and the long - term potential of metal scarcities.

«For the United States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems,» the updated 2016 letter says.

This book provides a thorough assessment of the factors that influence global food insecurity, including rising energy prices, water scarcity, increased biofuel use, and expanding populations.

Due to the scarcity of minerals in our food supply, it is very important to eat as many mineral - rich foods as possible, including grass - fed red meat.

Economic terms students will learn about while playing include: deflation, embargo, exports, GDP, GDP per capita, globalization, hyperinflation, imports, inflation, monopoly, protectionism, quota, resources, scarcity, standards, subsidies, surplus, tariff, trade barrier, and trade deal.

Economic concepts experienced in this simulation include: capitalism, entrepreneurship, ownership, supply, demand, scarcity, addition, subtraction, scarcity, costs, benefits, and other market economic principles.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

I have also included a nice and detailed worksheet that covers key economics concepts including factors of production and scarcity.

Additionally, student financial needs often extend beyond tuition and books to now include transportation, housing, food scarcity and healthcare.

Although their influence is now somewhat diminished, for more than a century they ran a text book marketing campaign that ensured they earned vastly inflated prices for their shiny little rocks - first by buying up the newly discovered South African diamond mines so that they effectively controlled the market, then by creating the impression of scarcity by ruthlessly controlling supplies; and then, in their pièce de résistance, commissioning one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history to create the tradition of giving diamonds as engagement gifts; which includes the famous «diamonds are forever» advertising campaign and sponsoring movies such as Gentleman Prefer Blonds (1953), To Catch A Thief (1955) and The Pink Panther (1963).

European e-book markets are still nascent for several reasons, including a lack of affordable e-readers, high e-book prices, and a scarcity of books in digital formats.

Breeds go up and down in price based on many factors including: overall popularity or demand, specialization for specific jobs (hunting, police work, etc.), scarcity or how few dogs of the breed actually exist, how long the breed has been in existence, whether it is a status symbol, and finally the «C» or celebrity factor (think Paris Hilton and micro Pomeranians).

Their initial desire was to include work by Irish and black American artists but, due to what they perceived as a scarcity of Northern Irish artists covering the period, the duo instead focused on the work of artists across the Atlantic.3 In contrast to their Northern Irish counterparts, successive generations of African American contemporary artists have returned to the images, iconographies and key events of the Civil Rights movement in their work.

Recent exhibitions and screenings include CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016/17); Historicode: Scarcity & Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China, (2016/17); fugue states, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2015); Ripples on The Pond, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2015); MOTHS, Summerhall, Edinburgh (2015); 3 Scripts for Future - telling, a performance for Tenletters, Glasgow (2015); Our Extra-Sensory Selves (premiere), Glasgow International Film Festival (2015); Let The Body Be Electric, Let There Be Whistleblowers, an exhibition with Allison Gibbs, Ken Jacobs and Joachim Koester at Dan Gunn Berlin, curated by Heidi Ballet and Anselm Franke (2014); Spirits of Ecstasy (Murnau's Death Mask), The Happy Hypocrite - Heat Island (issue 7 spring 2014 edited by Isla Leaver - Yap); Kelly, Glasgow International (2014) and SPIRIT SHADOW SPECTRE BONES and PHANTOM, Intermedia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013).

Halter's work has been widely presented, including in Low Res: Spatial Politics in the Cloud, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York (2017); Two to Tango, Sperling Gallery, Munich (2017) and HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing (2016).

Scarcity of food sources from destruction of farmland and pastoral areas because of changing climatic conditions, he said, has helped foment wars in his country, including the one in Darfur.

According to the report, if current trends are not reversed, the Asia - Pacific region could be the most important driver of global resource use and related environmental impacts, including resource scarcity and climate change.

These include issues such as drug resistance and other cross-border health risks, financial crises contagion, money laundering, water scarcity, fisheries collapse and, of course, climate change.

Health eff ects from changes to the environment including climatic change, ocean acidification, land degradation, water scarcity, overexploitation of fisheries, and biodiversity loss pose serious challenges to the global health gains of the past several decades and are likely to become increasingly dominant during the second half of this century and beyond.

For the United States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems.

[2] Expected impacts include a sea level rise up to 6 - 7m, melting permafrost in the arctic regions, large - scale agricultural losses, increased water scarcity, a collapse of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean and an increase of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts or devastating storms.

The costs of this global ecological overspending include deforestation, drought, fresh - water scarcity, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

These include possible increased anecdotal reporting of extreme events through increased use of technology like camcorders, or scarcity of data for certain land regions.

This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress and economic instability?

The potential impacts of increasing biomass recovery could include nutrient scarcity, loss of biodiversity and changes to ecosystem function.

With the era of dam building coming to an end in much of the developed world, places such as California and Australia are turning to local and less expensive methods to deal with water scarcity, including recycling wastewater, capturing stormwater, and recharging aquifers.

These risks include heat stress, extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, landslides, air pollution, drought, and water scarcity.

The consequences of deforestation, including soil drying and erosion as well as scarcity of fuel, became so severe that government actions were quickly taken.

As noted above, IPCC (and others) have observed that hiatuses occur from time to time in climate models but didn't disclose the scarcity of hiatuses of the length of the present negative trend (13 years from 2001 to 2013, a period that does not include the 1998 El Nino).

Anna Taylor, of the Stockholm Environment Institute in Oxford has no PhD at all, her research focuses on «stakeholder engagement in adapting to multiple stresses, including climate variability and change, water scarcity, food insecurity and health concerns» — not climate science, and has simply not been alive long enough to join the ranks of the specialists of specialisms that Dessler demands of sceptics.

The new model is able to take these parameters into account by including data about the present state of the ocean and atmosphere, something that's been difficult to do in the past because of a scarcity of data for the ocean.

Environmental issues affecting the Arab world include widespread desertification, water scarcities, soil degradation and declining land productivity.

His current research includes a global assessment of the sustainability of future food production under socioeconomic and climate change, and water scarcity.