The rising cost of housing is due in no small part to the scarcity of its availability, especially in areas that are already densely populated.
This raises the issue of pastoralism's sustainability as a way of life, which is further threatened by increasingly 'strong circumstantial evidence that the islands have been drying out over the last few hundred years' (Miller et al. [2003]: 79) and the ensuing chronic scarcity of resource availability.
Thus, early findings and initial hypotheses about the effects of HAART use on the proximate and underlying determinants of fertility may be incomplete, as they were indirectly predicated on the novelty and scarcity of HAART availability.
Scarcity in availability of raw materials will be a relevant challenge to the development of capric acid based industry.
A scarcity of information is available online.
UCB is the basis for an internationalised form of circulation made possible by forms of transaction that involve distributions of quality, price, scarcity and availability.
Soqotrans' subsistence pastoralism is practiced according to the rhythm of the two monsoons, and the seasonally programmed availability, or scarcity, of key environmental resources.
The extreme seasonality in availability and scarcity of water, superimposed by the pluriannual cycles of flooding and extreme drought, make the Amazon floodplains unique environments in which to study effects of stress and disturbance on the vegetation and on plant adaptation.
Conventional power plants suffer from issues like fuel scarcity, availability of site and other environmental concerns.
Factors such as scarcity of its usual prey, the regular availability of human corpses--from epidemics, for example--or injuries that make hunting fast prey difficult can initially lead a lion to resort to man-eating, say the authors.
