Resource scarcity

Keywords Irrigation, Management, Quality, Resources, Scarcity, Water... 

This book unites visions on the particular problems of water quality and resource scarcity in the regions belonging to Mediterranean climate. Some of the chapters... 

Solutions to America s interrelated problems of scarce energy, clean environment, and price inflation require a comprehensive analysis of the economic consequences of policy alternatives before policy is changed. Major policy changes, in the face of resource scarcities, are greatly modifying the structure of the economy. Structural changes are resulting in totally new economic trends in supplies, demands, and prices. 

Last, but not least, we still have to take into account resources scarcity fossil fuels for which oil reserves, the cheapest ones and those of best quality, are concentrated in politically unstable areas of the planet and do not remain superseding today for the great majority of the vehicle fleet. 

In short, the government introduction of resource scarcity where none has existed before will create incentives for both conservation and appropriation within the context of an oligopoly. This implies the need for a modification to the basic accumulation tax. A premium must be added to the accumulation tax in order to remove the incentives for hoarding the resource. 

While uranium yellowcake prices have risen steeply in recent years there is no immediate or medium-term prospect of fuel resource scarcity, nor do rising prices have much impact on the economics of nuclear power. CESSA notes, however, that a global shift from replace nuclear with nuclear towards policies of nuclear expansion could put uranium supply under pressure and hence greatly improve the economics of reprocessing. 

Climate change—leading to loss of infrastructure, resource scarcity and mass displacement of peoples, causing civil unrest, intercommnnal violence and international instability. 

Fires are, in general, very complex in nature. The complexify arises because of interaction of phenomenon of turbulence, combustion, radiation, etc., which control fire and smoke development with each other and with the surroundings. Reduced-scale experiments although provide useful information, yet they alone are not sufficient to reproduce full-scale features whereas the full scale experiments are costly and expensive. In marine industry, full scale experiments are ruled out due to high initial investment and resource scarcity. Therefore, solution to this lies on mathematical modeling, although, the results should be validated with reduced or full scale experiments wherever possible to find a practical solution. 

Helmi, A., Gallucci, F. and Van Sint Annaland, M. (2014) Resource scarcity in palladium membrane applications for carbon capture in integrated gasification combined cycle units. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39 (20), 10498-10506. 

Resources scarcity (supply, people, and transportation capacity). 

Arrangements that offer a wide range of solutions to such problems as operational inefficiency, resource scarcity, lack of facilities to take advantage of economies of scale... 

The Resource Scarcity Crisis, which ranks high on the geopolitical agenda, i.e., the need to recover as much resource from our food waste in order to secure the supply of raw materials to industry, in a world in which the growing economies (e.g., India, China, Brazil) are exerting an increasing pressure on the market of primary raw materials. 

This chapter details a theory for decoding the multiplicity of microbial strategies to extract and channel mass and energy flows under simultaneous environmental stresses, with a focus on resource scarcity. Elucidating tradeoffs between resource availability and microbial physiology provides a theoretical basis for systemic analyses of omics data, and a rational basis for controlling miaobes in medical, environmental and industrial applications. 

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