Sentences with phrase «increasingly scarce resources»

Competition for increasingly scarce resources may exacerbate the level of conflict.»

Climate change impacts that intensify competition for increasingly scarce resources like freshwater and arable land, especially in the context of population growth, are areas of concern.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

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.

We do this by helping improve plant breeds, better manage increasingly scarce resources such as water, and keep pests and diseases at bay.

Giving consumers the ability to «buy back» an increasingly scarce resource — their time — is the future of consumerism.

Merely offering a good education in the traditional fields, it's thought, isn't enough to have your college stand out in a way that will gain the increasingly scarce resource called the college - bound student.

Not exact matches

I say all the time that time is our scarcest resource, that attention is the new currency, and that increasingly we will only make space for what we're interested in, but not everyone's in a hurry every day.

In the current economic climate, it can be difficult to justify certain expenses, such as charitable donations, when resources seem to be increasingly scarce.

Over the long term, net exporters may want to alter trade policies to avoid creating their own water shortages or raise prices to reflect the cost of increasingly scarce water 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.

It is that simple, and it is hurting our schools when scarce state resources are increasingly directed to health care,» he said about Medicaid, and called for accepting the money.

Increasingly, intervention means going door - to - door in neighborhoods where veterinarians and pet stores are scarce, building relationships with pet owners and offering animal care resources.

«Cape Town has shown us that certain resources are becoming increasingly scarce; we are living in a new normal,» he explains.

Golf courses continue to spring up throughout China despite a 2004 ban to protect the country's increasingly scarce land and water resources.

And many US opponents such as Venezuela and Russia would continue to reap the benefits of their increasingly scarce remaining oil and natural gas resources.

«I have no doubt that slavery will return as the world's energy resources get increasingly scarce.»

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.

An argument can also be made that rising ethnic conflicts can be linked to competition over natural resources that are increasingly scarce as a result of climate change, but many other intervening and contributing causes of inter - and intra-group conflict need to be taken into account.

In response, Yates (2011) called for «methods that use less therapist time, use less client time, minimize client transportation costs as well as brick - and - mortar space, and use less of other increasingly scarce and costly resources.»

According to a July 2017 article by Business Tech, popularity of electric and hybrid cars are become increasingly rational in resource - scarce South Africa.