FROM THE MARSHY LANDS THEY cut reeds and built huts
As raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed.
Building materials are scarce in the Bikaner Desert located in Rajasthan. People in this area build their homes using sand, mud, and other materials that nature provides for them.
scarce food supplies
All resources are scarce.
The problem of scarce resources relative to human wants
That productive resources are scarce relative to economic wants.
No, it is mainly about the allocation of scarce resources. There are many different branches of this such as finance, development and game theory, but they are all stemmed from the main economic problem of scarce resources.
Local building materials and traditional building materials differ in the sense that whereas local building materials are those that naturally occur on a building site or its vicinity[1], traditional building materials are those local building materials that a culture/ society has adopted to use in its architecture, with norms and values attached to the different elements as is in the case of African traditional architecture.It's therefore true to add that a material can be local, but not traditional.[1] Anderson, Arnsby, Johansson& Astrand, A solution to rural housing problems, Lund Sweden, 1986
All of them. They were short on food, raw materials, crude oil...
As raw materials became more and more scarce people resorted to storing away food and materials in an attepted to future proof themselves against the constant shortages
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Sod houses were first built by European settlers in North America during the 19th century. The exact date of when sod houses were first invented is not clear, but they became popular in regions where building materials such as wood were scarce.