Collocations withscarcity
These are words often used in combination withscarcity.
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artificial scarcity
His principal purpose is to bring about an artificial scarcity ill order to raise prices.
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conditions of scarcity
Furthermore, protecting the sources of that information, in conjunction with the overall conditions of scarcity, helped patrons to justify their personalised interventions into bureaucratic processes.
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growing scarcity
Both factors helped to overcome ecological constraints imposed by a growing scarcity of land and timber.
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increasing scarcity
Increasing scarcity makes it worthwhile for producers to go further into open access forests.
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relative scarcity
This is probably an artefact caused by the relative scarcity of saplings and a few larger saplings found close to adult trees.
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resource scarcity
We leave it to future research to more fully investigate the link between resource scarcity/relative distribution, conflicts, and herd mobility.
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scarcity of data
Meaningful analysis of female occupation and illiteracy is thus non-viable because of the scarcity of data.
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