(1) The quantitative difference of potential evapotranspiration and actual precipitation resulted in natural deficits of soil moisture.
She now makes room for the social contribution to "natural" deficits (see Wasserman 1998; Terzi 2009), recognizing that most capabilities bear only a contingent, environmentally-mediated relationship to people's "natural endowment".
It's now five years since Louv published Last Child in the Woods, a huge and unexpected US bestseller that explores what happens, to individuals and society, when kids stop going out into the natural world to play ("nature deficit disorder" he called it – the term has caught on).
Today's kids are largely disconnected from the natural world and many suffer from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
"China, with its rapidly growing natural resources deficits, is the region's largest trading partner, and will have a huge impact on the development patterns" of the region, Josh Newell writes in his new book, "The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development".
A transitory surge in the government's budget deficit is natural under these circumstances and need not be a cause for alarm.
In an economy constrained by low interest rates, a stubborn trade deficit and natural demand for the world's reserve currency, there is little to cushion the blow of austerity.Spending down, Fed upA last lifeline for the president is the hope of support from the Federal Reserve.
Solid sorption air-to-water apparatus driven by solar energy has a great potential for the advantages of being widespread application and efficient in the remote areas with deficit of natural fresh water and electricity supply.
All of these are the natural product of the deficit of ethics and courage we each face within.
Ted Cruz, despite a deficit of natural charisma, nonetheless managed to rally his troops with well-crafted, impassioned arguments.
