We study the effect of scarcity on decision making by low income Swedes. exploit random assignment welfare payments to their borrowing decisions within pawn and mainstream credit market. document that higher educated borrowers borrow less frequently choose lower loan value ratios when budget constraints are exogenously tighter. In contrast, low-educated do not respond temporary elevated levels ...

Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify global cycle, altering distribution in space time. This is expected to result wet areas getting wetter dry drier. As key life, scarcity likely provoke conflict. Using grid-cell data for Africa central America over years 2002 2017, we provide empirical evidence a link between likelihood local conflict mass declines. We measure anomalies...

A global water scarcity assessment for the 21st century was conducted under the latest socio-economic scenario for global change studies, namely Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). SSPs depict five global situations with substantially different socio-economic conditions. In the accompanying paper, a water use scenario compatible with the SSPs was developed. This scenario considers not only qu...

Saudi Arabia (SA) faces a water shortage, and it further challenges sustainable agriculture, industrial development the well-being of people. SA uses more than 80% its resources for agricultural purposes. Groundwater extractions account most this demand, which is not sustainable. Hence, study aims to analyze management practices used in propose viable workable solutions achieve scarce resources...