resource scarcity
Not enough available
Resource scarcity is the condition of having insufficient supply to meet demand—whether of raw materials, labor, time, or money.
Economics is sometimes defined as the study of how societies allocate scarce resources.
Water scarcity threatens agriculture in the region.
The concept applies beyond physical goods: We're facing a scarcity of qualified candidates.
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- running outApproaching total depletion
- povertySevere lack of resources
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- carrying capacityPopulation an environment sustains
famine · water shortage · water wars · unemployment · housing crisis · finite · Malthusian · zero-sum · overfishing · rationing · empty shelves · supply chain · triage · deforestation · desertification · food insecurity · climate change impacts · overpopulation
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- deprivationlack, deprivation, need, want, shortage
- Post-Apocalypsewasteland, fallout, survivors, apocalypse, collapse
- global crisesclimate crisis, financial crisis, debt crisis, energy crisis, food crisis
- poverty factorsdeprivation, hardship, low income, low wages, joblessness
- postwar economicsMarshall Plan, economic recovery, currency reform, Wirtschaftswunder, recovery programs
resource scarcityabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · plentifulness · surplus · oversupply · glut
resource scarcitypost-scarcity
Economy without resource limits
affluence · prosperity · material wealth · opulence · self-sufficiency