Resource Scarcity Energy
Systems modeling of the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus: Insights from a region facing structural water scarcity in southern Spain. Environmental Management.
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WHAT IS PLANETARY HEALTH?
Resource Scarcity
The limited availability of freshwater, rare earth metals, and arable land is an enormous challenge in many parts of the world.
The supply of natural resources such as soil, water, and minerals is diminishing due to climate change and consumption patterns. Their scarcity ripples outward to other systems humans rely on for survival, such as agriculture and aquaculture, aquifers, woodlands, renewable energy sources, and medical technology and supplies.
In particular, demographic changes are driving sharp increases in global water and energy demand at a time when climate change and unsustainable water use promises to increase water scarcity in a variety of ways, and the emissions and runoff from mining activities negatively impact water, air, and soil quality. Ironically, the demand for renewable energy also increases the need for rare earth metals which are extracted at the expense of nature. Competition for scarce resources has also been linked to displacement of populations and conflict.
Generations of resource extraction and overuse of ecosystem services have scarred the natural environment: the planet cannot support current levels of human consumption, and the benefits we derive from ecosystem services and natural resource consumption can no longer justify the destruction of the environment. Research to better characterize these challenges and identify systems-level solutions to competing needs for ecosystem services is urgently needed.
Resource Scarcity Resources
Chemical Pollution Resource Scarcity
What is eutrophication?
Life Stage and Reproductive Health, Demographic Transitions
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Land Use and Land Cover Change Resource Scarcity
Modelling relationships between land use and water quality using statistical methods: A critical and applied review. Journal of Environmental Management.
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Resource Scarcity Health and Care Systems
Environmentally sustainable design guide for haemodialysis facilities: An Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology initiative. Nephrology.
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Resource Scarcity
UN World Water Development Report 2024
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