Lecture halls are swamped; first-year medical students camp out early for scarce places.
A fall in EU students would free up scarce places and mean more UK students could get onto the course of their choice.
As recently as 18 months ago, private bankers were pouring into Geneva, jostling with other new arrivals for the best properties in the city's tight housing market and for scarce places for their children in its international schools.
I had barely gotten myself settled in the absurdly full airport shuttle at O'Hare when more people came along, looking for scarce places".We need a market!" said one of the economists on board (and with the conference happening, everyone on board was an economist).
The problems of boundary maintenance between the poor and non-poor and the administrative resources needed to decide on eligibility for scarce places may be inefficient.
He follows several youngsters who long for a better school and are forced to participate in lotteries to win one of the scarce places in those free private schools.
We can all see the droughts, heatwaves and floods are affecting more and more countries but how can the 2 billion people who already live in water-scarce places respond?
It seems likely, on current patterns of use, that our global fisheries will collapse by 2050 and, already, fresh water is becoming scarcer, placing global food security at ever greater hazard.
There has been increased prevalence in the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for the assessment and planning of the urban environment in recent years, spurred not only by the decreasing costs of computational resources, but also by increasing demand for enhanced living conditions, especially in densely populated and land-scarce places like Singapore.
Information on the extinct Baltic languages is extremely scarce (mostly place-names).
