Resource insecurity lingers witness the 20% stake taken this week by Chinese state firms in Libra, a giant Brazilian offshore oilfield but it is no longer the driving force.
"This suggests that the prehistoric populations of the Atacama were subject to periodic episodes of resource insecurity and associated micronutrient deficiencies," the researchers conclude.
There's a virtuous circle between patient and staff contentment; but under the stress of inadequate resources, job insecurity and inequalities in patient treatment, it can turn into a vicious one, with carers and patients in conflict.
Implications for sustainability are discussed given the likelihood that the negative trends of reduced access to natural resources and insecurity will continue.
This extra labour is needed because of management changes in response to natural resource conflict, insecurity and uptake of alternative livelihood strategies.
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This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes the insecurity arising from water dependence and scarcity.
The overall decline in well-being across the study in both groups may reflect the wider changes in the NHS of continuing reorganisation, recession, declining resources and job insecurity.
Under these conditions, little attention is paid to the growing community of the elderly people in Kosovo [ 22] which, combined with the inadequacy of financial resources, the economic insecurity and the unclear and unstable development of the health sector, pose a serious barrier for elderly people to access medical care.
Corporations might not be overly concerned about climate change, resource scarcity, food insecurity and so on today, but you can bet they will be tomorrow when these planetary problems set their profits plummeting.
