In areas where other fuels are scarce, the production of brown coal far exceeds that of bituminous coal.
With many rare and important resources already becoming scarce, oil production at its peak and declining, and urgent concerns over fresh water supplies, the reality of the situation looks very grim indeed.
Obtaining an adequate sputum sample from patients with scarce sputum production is challenging in HIV-positive patients.
The theory suggests that freer trade benefits the "abundant," but harms the "scarce," factors of production.
Mr Piketty is sympathetic to David Ricardo's view of the importance of the scarce factor in production: gains from growth will tend to be captured by that which is most scarce in the economy.
More subtle pleasures are scarce in this production, though it has been staged with crackle and clarity by Michael Grandage (the departing artistic director of the Donmar) and acted with snarling intensity by a cast that includes Ben Daniels and Alex Kingston.
As is the case in the majority of farm households in the country, land is one of the scarce factors of production in the study area.
Growth is expected to slow next year as spare production capacity becomes scarce, economic stimulus measures are unwound and economic growth in the advanced economies remains relatively flat, the World Bank said, lowering its 2011 forecast to 7.8 percent from the 8 percent it had projected in April.
(One thing you won't see are Africans, which feels a little disconcerting, even though humans are intentionally scarce in these productions. The only person we see is an anonymous, faceless diver).
Controversy over the substitutability of natural and human-made capital has divided proponents of weak and strong sustainability; the former argue that the two types of capital are largely interchangeable, whereas the latter insist that natural capital is increasingly the scarcest factor of production.
