Nowadays, with land scarce, and environmental regulations ever more complex, even a starter golf course can cost $20 million.

Roads, and much of the region's scarce arable land, will disappear.

This caused considerable discontent amongst the local population as these settlers took scarce land and water resources away from them.

But the other villagers are upset: if the couple stays, then they will eventually have to be given scarce land to farm.

With land scarce, tourist development drove up the cost of living.

As time passed, the frontier land became occupied, which placed a higher price on scarce land (Shrestha).

With land scarce, the only way to increase the housing supply is to allow more living units on each acre.

The thing is, as several years have passed, you realize the extent of the issue of scarce land.

China's farmers have long used techniques such as fertilization and irrigation to increase the productivity of their scarce land.

Another was that with land scarce and expensive, shopping was going to have to be vertical.