Far better if everyone did their bit to alleviate social scarcity and packed their bags for Torremolinos.
Environmentalists talk about impending natural scarcities, but Hirsch drew attention to a more intriguing phenomenon - social scarcity, or things whose supply is limited not by nature but by social crowding.
The authors are least convincing when they reach beyond poverty for more general conclusions — for example, assimilating loneliness into the analysis under the guise of "social scarcity".
Women, and by extension their children, are particularly disadvantaged by the social housing scarcity.
Those last three questions obviously pointed toward issues of social policy, scarcity and equity, and scholars in the field soon recognized that few issues in bioethics could be isolated from the larger framework of how health care was delivered and who had access to it.
The latest evidence to suggest directors are ignoring the reality of climate change, resource scarcity, social injustice and biodiversity collapse comes from Joining Forces: Collaboration and Leadership for Sustainability, a comprehensive survey conducted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), MIT Sloan Management Review and the UN Global Compact.
Thanks largely to immigration trends, the United States is on track to grow from 306 million today to 439 million by 2050, an increase in population with enormous implications for water scarcity, social cohesion, quality of life, educational attainment, the environment and our dependence on oil.
In turn, architecture is shaped by such social concerns as scarcity, justice, and social relations and obligations.
It could, thus, be hypothesised that longer working hours, time scarcity, social commitments, changing family structures and greater availability of foods may all have contributed to the changing trends seen in energy and macronutrient distribution in the current analysis.
Fukuyama [ 24] and Putnam [ 13] also discussed the relationship between levels of trust, the household and social capital; however, scarcity of data sampled entirely at the household level (as opposed to sampling one member per household [ 25, 26]) means that social capital research has been unable to fully explore this context.
The Whole Earth Catalog itself became the voice of a new kind of environmental advocacy that, rather than shunning science as nature's enemy, embraced it as the key that could unlock the door to personal freedom and create a post-scarcity social utopia.
