Resource supply and demand, as a research topic, examines how the availability (supply) and utilization (demand) of biophysical, economic, or infrastructural resources interact to shape system dynamics, constraints, and allocation outcomes. It typically involves quantifying supply potentials (e.g., production capacities, regeneration rates, stocks) and demand drivers (e.g., population, technology, consumption patterns) and analyzing their temporal and spatial mismatches. Methodologically, it uses models from resource economics, systems ecology, and operations research to assess scarcity, resilience, trade-offs, and feedbacks, often informing policies on sustainable management, pricing, and planning under uncertainty and external shocks.
Forecasters expect the El Niño now underway in the tropical Pacific to strengthen into a strong or very strong climate driver later this year.
Ecology
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The global push for a transition to green energy has sparked demand for critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, copper and cobalt. These are needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels. Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Environment
Jun 29, 2026
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The Netherlands is a major agricultural exporter. But look beyond euros to land, animal feed, calories and protein, and a different picture emerges. In a study published in Nature Food, researchers at Wageningen University ...
Agriculture
Jun 24, 2026
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The past five years have not been easy for the people of the Pacific. COVID restrictions disrupted tourism and upended supply chains, while global fuel shocks raised prices and hit island economies hard.
Environment
Jun 23, 2026
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The cause of future food shortages may not be a lack of farmland, but a shortage of agricultural workers. Amid low birth rates and rural decline, a joint international research team from KAIST has developed a new data-driven ...
Agriculture
Jun 18, 2026
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Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers have become the backbone ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2026
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Agriculture today is a massive, globally interconnected industry. That interconnectivity has brought jobs and varied foods to people who might not otherwise be able to access them.
Ecology
Jun 8, 2026
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Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active mine site.
Environment
Jun 6, 2026
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Millions of people in central Africa rely on wild meat for their nutrition, especially in rural areas around the Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. Here, meat from domestic animals is scarce ...
Ecology
May 31, 2026
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Sitting at the northwestern edge of North America, Alaska stretches across a vast Arctic land of wilderness, culture, and wealth beneath the surface. Among its resources is the Donlin Gold deposit, located in southwestern ...
Earth Sciences
May 29, 2026
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