scarcity

Since the start the Islamic Revolution, 31,000 of Iran’s 69,000 villages have been abandoned, with water scarcity a major contributing factor.

It could also help address a scarcity of dollars, a major economic challenge that has for decades fueled catastrophic runs on the country’s currency, the peso.

Maybe this is the natural endpoint of the year’s strangest aesthetic trend: finding beauty in scarcity.

A parliamentary committee said the scarcity of useful land "stops some communities flourishing."

Caroit said "scarcity is everywhere, and including in France, because of budgetary constraints".