Sentences with phrase «scarcity problem»

For this reason, we argue that focus on oil futures should shift away from attention on oil as purely a scarcity problem toward a focus on managing the impacts (both social and environmental) of oil substitution.

Of course we have a resource scarcity problem, but it pays to actually understand the problem.

In partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, or Sida, USAID is offering up $ 25 million in grants, ranging from $ 100,000 to $ 3 million, for big ideas that solve the water scarcity problems in the agricultural production chain.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

At the same time, another 23 % have experienced a significant decrease in water availability, for 9 % aggravating water scarcity problems.

But interventions tend to solve water scarcity problems at a local level, while aggravating water scarcity downstream.

In keeping with the spirit of the season - and our past coverage of North Carolina's water scarcity problems - we had to pass on this timely story detailing the effects the drought - the state's worst on record - has had on the state's Christmas tree population.

Not exact matches

Lall points out that the water scarcity could also pose huge problems for the burgeoning domestic energy industry.

I think something that keeps becoming a problem for various sort of consumer - driven initiatives here is that people demand a level of security and predictability and reliability out of [healthcare that keeps them from being able to walk out of a doctor's office and say no, or keeps them from being willing to accept the consequences of a market, which, after all, rely to some degree on scarcity.

The problem comes because of the scarcity of assets, one reason why high - yield credit spreads have been tightening even as short term funding rates have risen.

«While blockchain has the ability to eliminate incentives of scarcity, that is only the halfway mark to end our social problems.

The pastor's problem is not scarcity but excess: «God's inexhaustible creation, limitless grace, relentless mercy, enduring purpose, fathomless love: it is just too much to contemplate, assimilate, understand.»

He points out that economic theory considers itself as the science of scarcity, whereas «the economic problem has been morethan solved among the rich sixth of the world's population.

Are we prepared to undertake the rigorous examination of parish, family and personal life styles called for in a world of scarcity, and as a Christian community to make a serious effort to understand and confront the systems which perpetuate the problem of separation between the rich and the poor?

Calling a halt to scientific work would not remedy the basic problem of modern man, and backbreaking scarcity would be no more «spiritual» in its impact than an economy of abundance.

Whether we are liberal or conservative Christians, we must confess that the central problem of our lives is that we are torn apart by the conflict between our attraction to the good news of God's abundance and the power of our belief in scarcity — a belief that makes us greedy, mean and unneighborly.

To compound the problem, there is so much scarcity in the market, the only way we can get one is by breaking the vault and get some real cash out.

While I have no problem recognizing that food scarcity is a real issue facing a huge number of students, I concur with Bettina that the cafeteria is a better venue for getting nutritional food to those students.

«I have directed all members of this committee to go back to their constituencies to investigate the problem at the grassroots so that we take approximate measures to address the scarcity.

This was not the only problem you were confronted with as a child (population explosion, environmental proctection, ressource scarcity etc. etc), so while living in the 80s was culturally a good time, the future outlook was rather grim.

The problem is that the scarcity of social housing has allowed a new and more hateful narrative to develop around its purpose.

«We were happy that fuel scarcity during the yuletide had become history, only for the problem to resurface now.

As illustrated by recent headlines of South Africa's countdown to «Day Zero,» or the day the water taps are expected to run dry, water scarcity continues to be a growing problem across the globe.

Study coauthor Peter McIntyre, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, notes that wealthier nations can manage the problem with complex sanitation facilities and other engineering schemes while the underlying issues — water scarcity and pollution — continue to intensify.

So the STEM mantra won't create industries and innovations that drive a flourishing economy, and it won't bring through those who will solve the problems of climate change and energy, food and water scarcity.

Years of worsening water scarcity passed before those ranchers began to appreciate how their practices — and the laws guiding them — were contributing to the problem.

The good news is though that I think he does feel that it is still possible to take some kinds of actions to respond to problems of climate change, to do a better job of trying to conserve top soil, to try to address the problems of water scarcity all over the world and so forth; that we can actually head off a lot of these problems.

And it becomes increasingly clear that there are no simple and quick solutions to overcome the scarcity and allocation problems.

Chartres, C. & Varma, S. Out of Water: from Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems (Pearson Education, 2011).

In my paneled session on resource scarcity, I end my 3 - minute «pitch» hoping for not much more than small strides toward putting the problem of global forest sustainability — the pure science of which we all seem to agree is largely done — into the hearts and hands of some of these mind - blowingly successful businessmen and social entrepreneurs.

Water scarcity is not a problem just for the developing world.

But despite what appears to be an insurmountable problem, according to researchers from McGill and Utrecht University it is possible to turn the situation around and significantly reduce water scarcity in just over 35 years.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

«Importing water - intensive goods from one water - scarce region to another doesn't solve the problem of water scarcity — it just shifts the pressure to other regions,» says co-author Klaus Hubacek, a researcher at the University of Maryland and an alumnus of the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program.

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.

According to the United Nations Department of Economic Affairs (UNDESA), water scarcity is among the main problems to be faced by many societies and the world in the 21st century.

The solution to the very visible global problems of deforestation, desertification and food scarcity may be hiding in plain sight: the transformative ability to restore degraded land to productive use.

When he has all six, his plan is to kill off half of the living things with a snap of his fingers, believing that it will end the problem of the scarcity of resources throughout the universe.

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).

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.

When learning can truly integrate unobtrusively with our day to day problems of motivation and time - scarcity are easily overcome.

The problem is — there is no scarcity, readers have all the power, ebooks cost less to make and sell than paper books and everyone knows it, there is infinite competition, readers aren't stupid.

This eastern tip is known as the driest area in Bali and the scarcity of water is a daily problem in this area especially during the hot season.

Hopefully the game will add more legends along the way, because the only problem we see right now is the scarcity in playable characters, as the rest all looks amazing!

The main problem is that the bloody thing isn't an inventory item - so you have to trek back with a full inventory every time you want to use it (which leads to another complaint, which is that there's a real scarcity of fast travel points).

564 SecularA said, «The «problem» will be «solved» long before that, by famine, water scarcity, disease and war.»

Successful students in first semester introductory economics (at least at Wesleyan) learn that the least cost solution to an exhaustible resource problem (we do discounting right off the bat) is to calculate a scarcity rent, apply it immediately to the price of the resource, and let it grow at the rate of interest.

This Mother Jones report does a good job of giving an overview of how their scarcity presents a number of problems to revving the clean energy economy up to full speed.

What we can do, however, is develop strategies of adaptation and mitigation, how humans will be affected, how our lives will change, and how we can prevent a dramatic loss of life due to ecological disaster, scarcity of resources, or other significant problems.

This analytical report, prepared by the UNU Maastricht Economic and social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU - MERIT), focuses on an Integrated Innovation Policy for an Integrated Problem: Climate Change, Resource Scarcity and Demographic Change.