| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Making scarcity -- Scarcity: language and politics / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- Untangling scarcity / Lyla Metha and Amber Huff -- Rethinking the relationships between scarcity, poverty and hunger: an anthropological perspective / Rick Wilk -- Renewable energy: a story of abundance and scarcity: a scientific / Neil Fromer -- Part 2: The power of projection -- Growth in the anthropocene / Fredrik Albritton Jonsson -- The great resources myth / Dave Rutledge -- Escapology, or how to escape Malthusian traps / Jirg Friedrichs -- Part 3: Coping, managing, innovating at different scales -- U.S. mobilization in World War II as a model for coping with climate change / Hugh Rockoff -- Scarcity and innovation: lessons from the British economy during the U.S. Civil War / W. Walker Hanlon -- China's great leap famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao, and material scarcity / Sigrid Schmalzer -- Encounters with scarcity at a micro-scale: householders responses to drought as a continuum of "normal" practice / Heather Chappells -- Part 4: Dynamics of distribution -- A climate of scarcity: electricity in India, 1899-2016 / Elizabeth Chatterjee -- Lagos "scarce-city": investigating the roots of urban modernity in a colonial capital, 1900-1928 / David Lamoureux -- Energy shortages and the politics of time: resilience, redistribution and "normality" in Japan and East Germany, 1940s-70s / Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann -- Food shortages: the role and limitations of markets in resolving food crises during the 2012 famine in the Sahel / Emma C. Stephens. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2019). |
| Summary |
"Scarcity in the Modern World brings together world-renowned scholars to examine how concerns about the scarcity of environmental resources such as water, food, energy and materials have developed, and subsequently been managed, from the 18th to the 21st century. These multi-disciplinary contributions situate contemporary concerns about scarcity within their longer history, and address recent forecasts and debates surrounding the future scarcity of fossil fuels, renewable energy and water up to 2075. This book offers a fresh way of tackling the current challenge of meeting global needs in an increasingly resource-stressed environment. By bringing together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this volume provides an innovative multi-disciplinary perspective that corrects previous scholarship which has discussed scientific and cultural issues separately. In doing so, it recognizes that this challenge is complex and cannot be addressed by a single discipline, but requires a concerted effort to think about its political and social, as well as technical and economic dimensions. This volume is essential for all students and scholars of environmental and economic history."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Scarcity.
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Supply and demand -- History.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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History: earliest times to present day.
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Economic history.
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General & world history.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00902213
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Scarcity. (OCoLC)fst01106535
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Supply and demand. (OCoLC)fst01139115
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Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Brewer, John, editor.
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Fromer, Neil Alan, editor.
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Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972- editor.
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Trentmann, Frank, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scarcity in the modern world. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019 9781350040915 (DLC) 2018033017 |
| ISBN |
1350040924 (electronic book) |
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9781350040939 (electronic book) |
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1350040932 (electronic book) |
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9781350040922 (electronic book) |
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9781350040915 (hardcover) |
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