Because land is so scarce, property prices are sky-high, hotel rooms are costly and family-friendly amusements are hard to find.
But, these days, developable land on Long Island is scarce, property taxes are rising and local governments are increasingly buying and preserving open spaces — and developers' offers to communities to gain support for their projects seem to be both larger and more common than in the past.
Once land became scarce, property could only be legitimated by the creation of political society.
As resources become more scarce, property rights systems need to adapt to reduce conflict and provide incentives for saving water.
When construction loans grew scarce two years ago, property development along Manhattan's High Line, which had been fast and fierce, stumbled.
And many more delinquencies and defaults are expected in 2010, when five-year interest-only loans issued in 2005 begin to mature and borrowers are unable to refinance them because credit is scarce and property values have declined instead of risen.
In Hong Kong land is scarce and property prices are at world beating levels.
While there is some validity in such claims, it is also true that as natural resources become more valuable and hence scarcer, local property rights are undermined by the arrival of powerful external claimants, including the state.
Specific information on social networks and on their contact structures is still scarce, but common properties have been revealed for many networks [ 7]: it has been shown that the degree distribution of social networks are frequently highly skewed, i.e. they are bound together by just a few very highly connected individuals.
Nobody owns the forest or wilderness where rattan usually grows and as a result it is increasingly scarce.Establishing such property rights is hard; it may mean the exclusion of "outsiders", often other poor people or even refugees, from using wildlife resources.
