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Breaking the Asia-Pacific region’s glass ceiling will require dismantling several barriers, including cultural expectations that women should prioritize childcare over their careers, a lack of suitable or affordable childcare, unconscious bias in the workplace, and a scarcity of role models and sponsors.
The resultant power cuts and fuel scarcity undermined water distribution in the country.
Technological advances have led to an explosion of information, and that has produced a “paradox of plenty”: an abundance of information leads to scarcity of attention.
Indeed, the region’s population explosion and rapid urbanization, along with the accelerating pace of tourism development, already means water scarcity is holding back growth.
In the climate of scarcity that characterizes debt deflations, the specificity of bailout operations inevitably leads to intense political debate.
On the contrary, oil scarcity is less of a concern today than ever before, owing not only to energy-efficiency initiatives, like the European Union’s nearly zero-energy buildings policy, but also to rising competition between shale producers and traditional oil exporters.
The scarcity of savings in the region reflects the weak incentives embedded in poorly designed tax and pension systems.
We must see environmental problems and energy scarcity for what they are: threats to mankind as a whole.
Scarcity requires them to make difficult choices like pulling children out of school or deciding which family member can afford to skip a meal.
If poverty were caused by scarcity of land or natural resources, emigration should result in higher life standards in the country of origin and lower in the country where immigrants arrive.
What they often overlook is that nature is the world’s original infrastructure, and nature-based solutions can help cities address some of the biggest planning challenges they face, such as air and water pollution, water scarcity, and extreme heat, all of which are now being exacerbated by climate change.
This is important, because nearly half of all cities around the world experience periodic water scarcity, with those that rely on surface water especially vulnerable.
Much has been written about possible ecological shocks triggered by the impact of a growing human population’s demands on the biosphere, and about the social and political tensions stemming from resource scarcity or climate change.
As Latin America entered the 1950s and new export sectors failed to emerge, dollar abundance turned into dollar scarcity.
Businesses are starting to wake up to the mounting risks that water – whether in overabundance or scarcity – can pose to their operations and bottom line.
The Rising Cost of NatureA fundamental global trend nowadays is growing natural resource scarcity.
There is, of course, no single correct response that would simultaneously and uniformly deal with resource scarcity, fossil-fuel depletion, climate change, and the risks of nuclear power.
Today, food scarcity is no longer a problem, at least in high-income countries.
Of course, the rest of the world still faces problems of scarcity; roughly one-third of the world’s population struggles to get enough food.
Under conditions of scarcity, the only way to ensure a fair outcome would be to award the vaccines through a lottery.
Each region, increasingly, must find its own path to economic development, energy and food security, and effective infrastructure, and must do so in a world threatened by climate change and resource scarcity.
Blurring that distinction – thereby disregarding the problem of scarcity – is no solution.
But population density and water scarcity will certainly be inhibiting factors in their exploitation.
But in times of scarcity, the survival program kicks in to slow the aging process.
Climate change, weapons of mass destruction, water scarcity, migration, and energy are the greatest threats we face, according to the 750 experts surveyed for the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2016.
The speculators argue: we are not the cause of the problem; we are simply engaged in “price discovery” – in other words, discovering – a little late to do much about the problem this year – that there is scarcity.
Water scarcity is largely the result of inadequate sanitation and a lack of necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers.
Furthermore, water scarcity means food scarcity.
In addition to increasing water supply in the short term, action must be taken to address the long-term issue of scarcity.
And the economic costs of restricted access to healthcare and education, on top of the scarcity of clear air and potable water, will be crippling in the mid- and long-term.
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