Scarcity in the modern world : history, politics, society and sustainability, 1800-2075 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Brewer, John (Editor), Fromer, Neil Alan (Editor), Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972- (Editor), Trentmann, Frank (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.