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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"resource scarcity"”.
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EXPLORING NATURAL RESOURCE SCARCITY MITIGATION APPROACHES IN SUPPLYNETWORKS
… their manufacturing operations due to unexpected resource availability issues. This has led to growing scrutiny on the sustainable use of natural capital, requiring firms to incorporate natural resource scarcity (NRS) risks into their operational strategies. However, as demonstrated in the review …
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Sustainable urban development under climate change and resource scarcity
… and global environmental trends in regard to resource scarcity, climate change and degrading environmental quality. Urban complexity, cross-scale impacts, socio-institutional diversity and adaptability become crucial when thinking about alternative development pathways. This dissertation seeks …
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The impact of institutional variables on measures of resource scarcity
… dissertation examines annual price data of two resources, copper and zinc, to test the hypothesis that these resources have become more scarce during the years 1870 to 1985. A theoretical model is developed which incorporates the effects of endogenous technological change and monopolistic market …
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Three approaches to measuring natural resource scarcity : theory and application to groundwater
Summary Efficient pricing of a resource incorporates both marginal cost of extraction and scarcity rents. Since groundwater resources exhibit natural supply constraints, scarcity rents must be imposed on current users. Given the difficulty of establishing clear groundwater ownership rights, …
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Belonging to the West Coast : an ethnography of St Helena Bay in the context of marine resource scarcity
… and in-migration. The pressure placed on local resources by these processes has been exacerbated by the rationalisation of the local fisheries - there are fewer jobs in the formal industry and small-scale fishing rights have become circumscribed. In the neighbourhood of Laingville, …
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Physical and Economic Models of Natural Resource Scarcity: Theory and Application to Petroleum Development and Production in the Lower 48 United States, 1955-1985
… for the 1955 to 1985 period. The physical scarcity model calculated the energy return on investment (EROI) for petroleum development and production. The EROI is the ratio of the petroleum energy added to reserves or produced to the energy used in the development and production process. The …
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Future perfect : reintegrating housing and production in the Berlin Block/
… housing, the decline of manufacturing, resource scarcity and global warming - we seem to be immersed in a state of constant emergency, which offers opportunity for design. Architecture has the ability to play a critical role in the reimagination of an alternate future explored through …
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An analysis of farmers-herdsmen conflict and the resolution mechanisms in Benue State, Nigeria.
… climate change, environmental degradation, resource scarcity and identity discrimination among others. The study uses environmental/resource scarcity theory and identity construction theory to explain the causes of farmers-herdsmen conflict and dual concern theory to underscore its …
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Social vulnerability of fishing communities in the southern Cape to change, including additional pressures of COVID-19
… are faced with many challenges such as resource scarcity, climate change and variability, policy and regulation and the more recent COVID-19 pandemic. This dissertation examines the social vulnerabilities of SSFs in the southern Cape, particularly in the two fishing towns of Bitouville …
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The Impact of Environmental Variability on Perceptions of Parental Ability From Bodily Cues
… I further considered how salience of resource scarcity might heighten perceptions of a potential mate as an effective parent when possessing features that connote underlying resource availability (e.g., body fat). Participants were primed with resource scarcity or a control condition …
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Examining priority setting and resource allocation practices in county hospitals in Kenya
… interventions. Understanding how hospitals use resources is therefore an important question. Priority setting research has however focused on the macro (national) and micro (patient) level, and neglected the meso (organizational, hospital) level practices. There is also a dearth of literature on …
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A Model Institute: The Mansouria Agricultural Learning Laboratory and Community Center
Inadequate rural housing, poor sanitation, resource scarcity, lack of adequate income and a general substandard level of living, forces a mass migration from rural areas into overtaxed urban centers in Egypt. Unable to sustain their families on increasingly smaller and less productive agricultural …
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How social ventures successfully mobilize resources
… self-determination around the world. However, resource scarcity places severe constraints on their impact. Existing literature has not yet adequately explored several key aspects of this phenomenon, leading to limited applicability and effectiveness of current theory. This research endeavors to …
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Classifying Interdependencies in the Food and Agriculture Critical Infrastructure Sector
… (4) delay, and (5) human, economic, and natural resource interdependencies. An analysis of these inter- dependencies and their intricacies provides the opportunity to generalize these ideas across other critical infrastructure sectors and model infrastructure restoration and resilience with …
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An investigation into the association between role stress and absenteeism among nurses in the South African public health sector
… of the results revealed that constant change and resource scarcity were weak yet significant predictors of nurse absence frequency. The remaining role stress constructs had no influence on the outcome variables. A major finding of the research was that the association between the role stress …
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Exploring The Roles, Responsibilities, And Leadership Styles Of Rural School Principals
… in poor areas, understaffed, and subject to resource scarcity. In addition to these challenges, rural school leaders are often assigned or assume additional roles and responsibilities as school principals. My goal was use Northouse’s (2016) leadership theory to perform a qualitative …
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Planning for the Margins: Mapping Conceptual Implications of Profound Intellectual Disability and Informality through Slovo Park, Johannesburg
… in situations of compounded vulnerability and resource scarcity. In doing so, it documents vitally important kin and care networks existentially challenged by neoliberal market forces. It argues that profound disability ought to be a central planning concern, informing how we transform social …
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Rational Corporate Risk Management Policy: An Extension of Traditional Risk Management Theory to Incorporate Observed Managerial Behavior
… deviations support strong arguments based in resource scarcity, cost and availability of capital, employee/community stability, and the increases in bankruptcy costs that these risk management deviation are in the interest of shareholders. When considered in the context of the long-term impact …
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Defeat in victory : organizational learning dysfunction in counterinsurgency
… constrained; high civilian participation and/or resource scarcity force often force militaries to adopt political strategies that are less congenial but more effective in restoring state authority. This study tests the theory against six empirical cases: Indochina, the Indochina-Algeria …
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"We must be responsible for our children" : the makings of motherhood in Ocean View
… to improve maternal and child health in a resource-poor context. Based on data collected from participant observation and interviews, three major themes have emerged from the research: the framing of Ocean View and its residents within a discourse of deficiency, the responsibilization of …
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