infrequency undersupply rareness Antonyms excess surplus abundance glut surfeit superfluity Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002 Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this...
drought- a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season" drouth dryness,waterlessness,xerotes- the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) ...
The final section of the report responds to various issues prominent in debates about the role of scarcity in causing conflict. These include: 1) the fact that people have fought over resources for centuries; 2) conflicts will generally occur in states of little international importance; 3) ...
Growing demand and scarcity of supply have made access to and use of natural resources a salient issue, with calls for the [...] daccess-ods.un.org 日增的需求和供应的不足使 获取和利 用自然资源成为一个突出的问题,要求取消这类产品的出口税和配额, 但出口国却用其来促进粮食安全、贸易条...
Water resources resilience and social perception of water scarcity in Tacloban, PhilippinesTacloban, Philippines, the city most harshly devastated by typhoon Haiyan in 2013, faces severe water supply constraints, particularly on the northern relocation sites which are expected to accommodate part of its ...
The possibility and repercussions of this choice is the subject matter of economics. The choice is optimised by choosing various commodities that can be produced from the available resources in such a way that no other combination of commodities that is also feasible is preferred to the one ...
In other words, scarcity rents represent the market mechanism needed to signal resource shortages and provide incentives for new investment in resources.10Furthermore, this mechanism allows the loads, through demand-side offers, to determine how much generation capacity is needed. Proponents ofscarcity...
ENVIRONMENTAL SCARCITY AND GLOBAL SECURITY: THE ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENT RELATED CONFLICTS IN BANGLADESH, SENEGAL-MAURITANIA, PHILIPPINES AND EL SALVADOR Environmental threats and conflicts have become the epicenter of many problems we now face globally. The environmental problems do not concern just poor...
This paper reviews the management of water resources in the Asia㏄acific region, for countries with significant irrigated area: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Korea〥PR, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam....
The understanding of historic hydroclimatic variability is basic for planning proper management of limited water resources in northeastern Mexico. The obje... J Villanueva-Diaz,DW Stahle,BH Luckman,... - 《Climatic Change》 被引量: 160发表: 2007年 The dynamics of smallpox epidemics in Britain,...