Abstract Scarcity sharpens the conflict between short term gains and long sustainability. Psychological research documents that decision makers focus on immediate needs under scarcity use available resources more effectively. However, also borrow too much from future overall performance decreases as a consequence. Using an online experiment, we study how affects borrowing decisions in groups. W...

Abstract Water scarcity poses one of the most prominent threats to well-being smallholder farmers around world. We studied association between rural livelihood capitals (natural, human, social, financial, and physical) resilience water scarcity. Resilience was denoted by farmers’ self-reported capacity have avoided, or adapted to, Proxies for were collected from two-hundred in South Sulawesi, I...

With increasing demand of new wireless applications and increasing number of wireless user’s problem of spectrum scarcity arises. Cognitive Radio technology supports dynamic spectrum access to address spectrum scarcity problem. Reliability of cognitive operation entirely depends upon how effectively task of spectrum sensing has been performed. Spectrum sensing is a process of discovering voids ...

Metrics of water scarcity and stress have evolved over the last three decades from simple threshold indicators to holistic measures characterising human environments and freshwater sustainability. Metrics commonly estimate renewable freshwater resources using mean annual river runoff, which masks hydrological variability, and quantify subjectively socio-economic conditions characterising adapti...

Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicators used to characterize and map water scarcity worldwide. We improve upon past efforts by using estimates of blue water footprints (consumptive use of ground- and surface water flows) rather than water withdrawals, accounting for the flows needed to sustain critical ecological functions and by c...