Scarcity in the modern world : history, politics, society and sustainability, 1800-2075 /
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2019.
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Table of 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.