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| | The Mint: Ideas for Teachers: Scarcity, Choice&Decisions |
 | | A discussion of some students' hypothetical budgets can be used to assess the students' understanding of the concept of scarcity and opportunity costs. | | | One copy of Scarcity, Choice, and Decisions, Activity 2, for each student. | | | The interrelated concepts of scarcity, choice, and costs form a basic economic trilogy. |
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http://www.themint.org/teachers/scarcity.php
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| | The Misconception of Scarcity |
| | The abolition of scarcity was a pillar of the paradigm shift to the "new economy". | | | This scarcity accounts for the stratospheric erstwhile valuations of dotcoms and telecoms. | | | But this is man-made ("internal") scarcity and can be undone by Man. It is truer to assume, for practical purposes, that most natural resources - when not egregiously abused and when freely priced - are infinite rather than scarce. |
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http://samvak.tripod.com/scarcity.html
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| | The Scarcity Shortage |
| | The result is that there is no scarcity, and no profit. | | | Today, there are an infinite number of brokers to choose from, all offering essentially the same service. | | | The only way to make a profit is by trading in something that's scarce. |
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/sgodin.html
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| | The Ingenuity Gap |
| | Severe scarcity often shortens society's time horizons and thereby shifts funds from savings to consumption; it also shifts investment from long-term adaptation to immediate tasks of scarcity management and mitigation. | | | Scarcity can generate "social friction" that impedes the supply of social ingenuity in the form of new and reformed institutions, such as markets. | | | But there are also real disadvantages to waiting: future generations may have to face scarcities much more complex and urgent than today's, which could raise the need for ingenuity; furthermore, future societies may experience greater social friction due to scarcity, which could impede ingenuity supply. |
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http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pcs/ingen/ingen.htm
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| | Resource Scarcity, Institutional Adaptation, and Technical Innovation: Can Poor Countries Attain Endogenous Growth?, ... |
| | One exception is an analysis by Deacon that attempts to test empirically across 120 countries for three possible causes of deforestation: growth in income, population pressure, and insecure property rights as reflected in correlations between deforestation and measures of political turmoil and repression. | | | Yet, Homer-Dixon argues, resource scarcity often reduces the availability of human and financial capital for the production of ingenuity by shifting investment "from long-term adaption to immediate tasks of scarcity management and mitigation." | | | Second, Barbier assumes that the long-run effects of resource scarcity will just offset additional innovation; that is, increased resource scarcity will so disrupt social and technical innovation that there is no net generation of innovation. |
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http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pcs/eps/social/social1.htm
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| | Scarcity and Choice |
| | When there is scarcity and choice, there are costs. | | | The cost of any choice is the option or options that a person gives up. | | | As individuals, limited income (and time and ability) keep us from doing and having all that we might like. |
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http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/Introduction/ScarcityNChoice.html
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| | Scarcity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One of the roles of the economist is to discover the relationship between demand and supply and to develop mechanisms (such as pricing, incentives, or penalties) to achieve an optimal outcome (in terms of consumer welfare). | | | That is, the resource cost of giving someone the title of "knight of the realm" is much less than the value that individuals attach to that title. | | | These things are said to derive all or most of their value from their scarcity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity
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| | Economics - Scarcity |
| | Scarcity occurs when the need or want for an item or resource is greater than the available resources. | | | Ask the students to identify the scarce resource in Japan. | | | (NOTE: You may want to read student logs to check their understanding of scarcity and plan for additional instruction if needed before going on to Activity 2.) |
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http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade3/Econ_Scarcity.html
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| | Water Scarcity in the Middle East: Regional Cooperation as a Mechanism Toward Peace |
| | The extreme water scarcity and increasing costs of supply are very serious constraints to economic growth across the region. | | | By focusing on problems related to regional water scarcity, the participants in the process have been able to transcend the realm of competing interests and create a situation in which all parties share benefits. | | | In addition, with increasing scarcity, pressures to overexploit groundwater resources will grow, and competition over water among different sectors and among countries may intensify. |
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http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa93528.000/hfa93528_0.htm
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| | Foundation for Teaching Economics Scarcity and Choice |
| | Scarcity - Scarcity means that people cannot obtain as much of something as they want, without making a sacrifice or bearing a cost. | | | People acting individually or collectively through government must choose which methods to use to allocate different kinds of goods and services. | | | Supply - The relationship of prices to the quantities of a good or service sellers are willing to offer for sale, at any given point in time. |
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http://www.fte.org/teachers/lessons/efl/efllesson1.htm
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| | Scarcity - Outline |
| | Scarcity exists because human wants and needs exceed the quantity of goods and services that can be produced using all available resources. | | | So, faced with scarcity, individuals, government and society in general must make choices. | | | Economists are fond of saying that "there is no free lunch," which means that, even if something is "free" to us, there is a cost to society in terms of the alternative foregone. |
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http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvfordc/survey/scarcity/scarcityout.htm
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| | Beyond Greed and Scarcity by Bernard Lietaer - alternative monetary systems |
| | What's nice about local currency is that when people create their own money, they don't need to build in a scarcity factor. | | | In fact, the job of central banks is to create and maintain that currency scarcity. | | | As soon as you have an agreement between two people about a transaction using Time Dollars, they literally create the necessary "money" in the process; there's no scarcity of money. |
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http://futurenet.org/2Money/Lietaer.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. |
| | Homer-Dixon's status as a first-rate global analyst was established with this monumental study. | | | The endnotes would have been more useful as footnotes but are quite good. | | | SIPs: links between environmental scarcity, supplyinduced scarcity, severe environmental scarcity, constrained economic productivity, how environmental scarcity (more) |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691089795?v=glance
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| | The Water Page - Water Scarcity |
| | Adopting a global figure to indicate water scarcity should therefore be done with great caution. | | | For this reason drought management policy must take into account a wide variety of factors. | | | In general, national average figures are used which mask annual variability from year to year, seasonal variability and the regional variability within countries. |
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http://www.thewaterpage.com/drought_water_scarcity.htm
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| | Ohlsson, 1999: "Environment, Scarcity, and Conflict" |
| | Based on new research, it is argued that scarcities of natural resources quickly show up as a scarcity of adapative capacity to manage these scarcities. | | | Social resource scarcity - Searching for the roots of a concept reformulated: | | | How environmental scarcity paved the way for genocide in Rwanda: |
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http://www.edcnews.se/Reviews/Ohlsson1999.html
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| | The Water Page - Water and Social Resource Scarcity |
| | The heuristic value of such a concept would be to indicate where the need for institutional building is greatest in order to pre-empt outbreaks of internal conflicts, and consequently the need for a shift in donor countries' and developmental agencies' attention to these sectors. | | | Adaptive capacity is a most general and multi-facetted concept, however, intuitively comprising general socioeconomic development, education, human rights (including and stressing women’s rights), general institutional capacity, etc. For water issues, it certainly ought to include some measure of water legislation, and water resources management capabilities. | | | Water scarcity increasingly is perceived as the limiting factor for both agriculture and industry in many developing countries; as the most probable source of conflict between countries over a renewable natural resource; and as a source of increasing competition between rural agricultural areas and the urban industrial sector. |
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http://www.africanwater.org/SoicalResourceScarcity.htm
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| | One Third of World's Population Will Experience Severe Water Scarcity By 2025, Says New Study |
| | "Water scarcity is already a major destabilizing force within countries because different sectors of the economy are vying for scarce water resources," said Seckler. | | | Category 3: These countries have to increase water development between 25 and 100 percent to meet 2025 needs, but have more financial resources to do so. | | | Category 2: These countries face "economic water scarcity." They must more than double their efforts to extract water to meet 2025 water needs, but they will not have the financial resources available to develop these water supplies. |
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http://www.futureharvest.org/news/03171999.shtml
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| | The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : Scarcity of Super Phosphate, DAP hits farmers hard |
| | Paddy farmers also urge the State Government to establish at least 15 direct purchase centres in Kulithalai and Krishnarayapuram taluks to prevent middlemen from taking away the benefits of the farmers. | | | The Government should plan things in advance and not try to establish DPCs late and blame the ryots for not selling paddy to these centres, they point out. | | | Paddy has also been raised in another 200 hectares in the Karur taluk of the district. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/19/stories/2005101902630300.htm
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| | History of Economics: HES List Guest Editorial -- Mosselmans |
| | The scheme is reproductive, since growth itself is good but should be balanced; the scarcity is internal since it is not due to external circumstances, but to the misbehaviour of human free will. | | | How can the dramatic shift from internal to external scarcity be explained? | | | Internal scarcity remains present to a certain extent, as expressed in the possibility for education to extend the period of time in which the external scarcity may be redistributed. |
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http://www.eh.net/HE/hes_list/Editorials/mosselmans.php
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| | InfoChange India News & Features development news on Water Resources in India |
| | Institutional reforms, differential water pricing and water conservation are pivotal issues that need to be addressed in order to tide over the present and emerging situation of water scarcity. | | | Further, there is a need to identify and strengthen local institutions that ensure equitable and sustainable use of water within ecological confines. | | | In the emerging situation of water scarcity, the central issue is that of redefining water governance. |
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http://www.infochangeindia.org/WaterResourceIbp.jsp
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| | Water Scarcity Could Affect Billions: Is This the Biggest Crisis of All? |
| | The report is intended as an alarm call, launched in advance of the World Water Forum taking place in Kyoto, Japan this month, when it is hoped that governments and policy makers will make a new commitment to get to grips with the water problem internationally. | | | Water Scarcity Could Affect Billions: Is This the Biggest Crisis of All? | | | By the middle of the century, it says that, in the worst case, no fewer than seven billion people in 60 countries may be faced with water scarcity, although if the right policies are followed this may be brought down to two billion people in 48 nations. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0305-05.htm
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| | Vital Water Graphics, United Nations Environment Programme |
| | By 2050, the number of countries facing water stress or scarcity could rise to 54, with their combined population being 4 billion people - about 40% of the projected global population of 9.4 billion (Gardner-Outlaw and Engleman, 1997; UNFPA, 1997). | | | Today 31 countries, accounting for less than 8% of the world's population, face chronic freshwater shortages. | | | Water scarcity occurs when the amount of water withdrawn from lakes, rivers or groundwater is so great that water supplies are no longer adequate to satisfy all human or ecosystem requirements, resulting in increased competition between water users and demands. |
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http://www.unep.org/vitalwater/21.htm
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| | Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa |
| | See the XML upon which this page is based (you may need to choose "view source" in your browser after clicking the link). | | | Chapter 7— Global Assistance for Development: Choosing an Appropriate Policy to Cope with Scarcity | | | Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa |
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http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9p3009f9
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| | When scarcity is scarce .... - Copywriters Board |
| | is the concept of scarcity really one of a scarcity that wasn't contrived by the marketer in the first place. | | | 2) If the offer is good enough, the web surfer is ready to buy, what you offer is sufficiently differentiated from other offers, then do you really need a scarcity clause at all? | | | 3) If you do need a scarcity clause, does it have to be contrived, or is there a way of doing it ethically and honestly? |
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http://copywritersboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=777
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| | Homeglossary.com - The World's Most Complete Real Estate Directory |
| | When there is a scarcity of housing, it results in price increases of those available. | | | Joints that are formed by bevel cutting the ends at the proper angles so that the boards fit together on an even level. |
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http://www.yourwebassistant.net/glossary/s4.htm
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| | For Rent |
| | Economic Outcome: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the historical development and current status of economic principles, institutions, and processes needed to be effective citizens, consumers, and workers in American society. | | | Economic Concepts: Production, Opportunity Cost, Decision Making, Scarcity | | | (This would be a good time to talk about the scarcity of summer vacation homes, how that puts the homes that are available in higher demand and in what kinds of environments summer vacation homes are in demand.) Ask what they would decide if the class had this same choice of renting the shed. |
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http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade2/For_Rent.html
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| | Basic Economics: Scarcity and Choices Part 2 |
| | If you have only a certain amount of money, then you'll have to buy the strawberries using some of the money you had planned to spend on other foods. | | | Lastly, sometimes scarcity is created only because a supplier has sold out of a certain product. | | | Scarcity has forced you to make a choice between foods. |
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http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/economics/scarcityandchoices2.htm
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| | Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, and You |
| | Students participate in a group activity that illustrates the concepts of scarcity, opportunity cost, tradeoffs, and consequences. | | | Standard: Defines and applies the concepts of scarcity, decision-making, choice, and opportunity cost to problem situations. | | | The concept of scarcity leads to decision making-situations at both personal and societal levels. |
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http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/lptools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=7702
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| | Scarcity amid plenty: A paradox |
| | The Government would do well to come out with a clear discussion paper outlining the various alternatives in terms of costs, feasibility and strategic implications. | | | A well-informed national debate on the options will help the emergence of a consensus on a well-articulated policy to deal with the current crisis of scarcity amidst plenty. |
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http://www.blonnet.com/2001/10/01/stories/040120ju.htm
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| | Scarcity |
| | Dealing with scarcity means that every economy must make decisions about how land, labor, and capital should be used. | | | Scarcity is the basic problem which affects every economy and every individual in the world. | | | How these basic economic questions are answered determines which sort of economic system will be followed. |
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http://www.cssd.ab.ca/tech/social/tut9/lesson_6.htm
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| | Water-Scarce Countries |
| | By 2025, India's population is expected to exceed 1.4 billion under the UN's medium projection, and the chronic water scarcity that already plagues many regions of the country is all but certain to intensify. | | | For several countries varying population scenarios could mark the difference between potentially manageable water stress and outright water scarcity in 2025. | | | China, today's most populous nation (1990 annual per capita water availability: 2,427 cubic meters), only narrowly will miss the water stress benchmark in 2025, according to all three UN projections. |
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http://www.cnie.org/pop/pai/water-14.html
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| | The problems of Scarcity & Abundance |
| | New businesses start to provide new alternatives for high priced scarcities. | | | Indeed, their very existence is to provide goods or services cheaper or faster or better. | | | When they lose their proprietary edge they are left with few alternatives, other than service offerings to satisfy their old customer base. |
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http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/abundance.html
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| | CDs and the Scarcity Principal |
| | Prices are high because a cartel controlled by DeBeers, has managed to dominate the world market, hoarding these frankly common gems to keep prices artificially, and extraordinarily, inflated. | | | The greater the scarcity, the easier it is to raise prices every year. | | | Today the record companies self-righteously scream that their products are worth twenty dollars a CD and they say even that is a bargain. |
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http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/scarce.html
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| | Popcorn Scarcity Economics Lesson |
| | identify choices societies made as a result of scarcity. | | | Following the activity, students relate the concept of scarcity to situations in school and their community. | | | Capital goods (resources) are goods produced and used to make other goods and services. |
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http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/popcorn.htm
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| | Agalmics: The Marginalization of Scarcity |
| | One clear trend in a technological society is the marginalization of scarcity. | | | As time goes on, the technology of agriculture and manufacture teaches us how to produce goods with more efficiency, at less cost. | | | The comments from working economists and sociologists were of particular interest, and I can see that they are going to produce some changes in the essay. |
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http://users.openverse.com/%7Edtinker/agalmics.html
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| | Eco-Economy Indicators: WATER SCARCITY |
| | Water scarcity may be the most underestimated resource issue facing the world today. | | | China's Fen River, the major watercourse in Shanxi Province, which once flowed through the capital of Taiyuan and merged with the Yellow, no longer exists. | | | As world water demand has more than tripled over the last half-century, signs of water scarcity have become commonplace. |
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http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/indicator7.htm
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| | Environment: Environment, scarcity, and violence. . - Books of Note - Brief Article - book review |
| | Another offers a superb review of the relevance of the exponential increase in global population in recent decades. | | | The aim of the book is to elucidate how and the extent to which environmental scarcities might contribute to the incidence of armed conflict, whether directly or indirectly (the author argues for the latter). | | | He concludes that the conflicts are most likely to take several specific forms, especially intrastate ethnic clashes arising from resulting refugee movements and intrastate insurgencies, banditry, and governmental overthrows arising from resulting losses in economic productivity and livelihood. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1076/is_4_44/ai_85700420
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| | Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Chapter 2: Emerging Water Shortages--A Food ... |
| | The question for each of these countries, and for the entire world, is not whether the bubble will burst, but when. | | | Andrew Keller, R. Sakthivadivel, and David Seckler, Water Scarcity and the Role of Storage in Development, Research Report 39 (Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute, 2000), p. | | | In which countries will the loss of irrigation water from aquifer depletion translate into an absolute decline in grain production? |
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http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB/PBch2_ss6.htm
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| | Concepts & Cases: Social Water Scarcity in Tajikistan |
| | After years of internal war and neglect of infrastructure maintenance, the recent drought simply tipped the sensitive balance into social disaster. | | | Societies may adapt to conditions of very harsh natural resource scarcities - but it takes a lot of social resources, and requires a benevolent social environment, free from violent social conflicts. | | | The following report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA, Reliefweb) Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) demonstrates how the immediate scarcity in Tajikistan rather may be regarded as one of social resources. |
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http://www.edcnews.se/Research/TajikistanDrought.html
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| | Scarcity vs. abundance (3rd in a series) |
| | Currently, the market price of products are based on scarcity - supply and demand. | | | This is getting dangerously close to sounding like those andquot;replicatorsandquot; that were on Star Treck TNG. | | | re: Scarcity vs. abundance (3rd in a series) |
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http://www.eds.com/sites/cs/blogs/eds_next_big_thing_blog/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8138
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| | Furdlog » A Look At The FCC’s Scarcity Policy |
| | Furdlog » A Look At The FCC’s Scarcity Policy | | | The Scarcity Rationale is based on fundamental misunderstandings of physics and economics, efficient resource allocation, recent field measurements, and technology. | | | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. |
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http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.php?p=3506
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| | [E] - Sandra Postel : The Coming Age of Water Scarcity (by Jim Motavalli and Elaine Robbins) |
| | Now director of the Global Water Policy Project in Amherst, Massachusetts, Postel has become one of the world's leading authorities on how the world uses water, and how it can conserve for the future. | | | She didn't start out as a guru, but since the publication of her book Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (Norton) in 1992, Sandra Postel has become one. | | | [E] - Sandra Postel : The Coming Age of Water Scarcity (by Jim Motavalli and Elaine Robbins) |
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http://www.emagazine.com/september-october_1998/0998conversations.html
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| | International Water Management Institute - www.iwmi.org |
| | The IWMI Global Water Scarcity Study is a groundbreaking piece of research for the Institute and an important new planning tool for the worldwide water and development community. | | | IWMI's conclusion is that, while the world must continue investing in water development projects to meet future food demands, investments in research to improve crop water productivity could be a cost-effective means to limit the requirement for new dams. | | | For many countries, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, it will be difficult to mobilize the necessary financial and other resources to achieve this goal. |
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http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/home/wsmap.htm
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| | John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Fatness and scarcity revisited |
| | Via Dienekes: Ember and colleagues (2005) address the question of whether cultural preferences for fatness or thinness in women are related to the prevalance of resource scarcity in a society. | | | In this case, the predicted variable is cultural preference, which means that even a significant correlation with scarcity still leaves many other factors to account for the preference. | | | Food storage is not significantly related either to the valuation of fatness in women or to any of our three measures of resource scarcity, but it does modulate their relationships to one another. |
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http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/behavior/ember_fatness_scarcity_2005.html
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| | Environment, Scarcity, and Conflict - erbjudande (990108) |
| | Environment, Scarcity, and Conflict - A study of Malthusian concerns. | | | The most pernicious effects of a failure to adapt to scarcities are conflicts within countries, a feature coincidental with current perception of problems for the international system of states. | | | Synthesizing previous attempts, the study describes in detail the specific and important role environmental scarcity of land played in making it possible for the genocidal regime in Rwanda to mobilize such a large part of the population as perpetrators in the final solution. |
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http://www.omvarldsbilder.se/1999/990108.html
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| | Abundance and Scarcity by Dale Ryan |
| | Afterall I've been working on scarcity management skills for a long time. | | | Scarcity is a big-time, major-league, world-class issue for me. Over the years of my recovery I have come to see that scarcity-orientation is not, for me, just a situational reality. | | | If you must adapt to a situation of scarcity in order to survive, then scarcity may shape what you expect all of life to be like. |
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http://crc.iugm.org/nacr/dale/scarcity.htm
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| | From flood to scarcity of water: re-defining the water debate in Bangladesh |
| | It argues that water scarcity is a problem where there is a failure to gain access to the service (or services) that water resources provide. | | | It is this more complex, subtle concept of scarcity that is the basis of the analysis of the situation in rural Bangladesh. | | | A recent study found that scarcity not excess of monsoon floodwaters appeared to be the primary concern of the majority of livelihood groups. |
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http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC8204.htm
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