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

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"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 contri...

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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.
Subjects:
Scarcity.
Supply and demand > History.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Rareté (Économie politique)
Offre et demande > Histoire.
History: earliest times to present day.
Economic history.
General & world history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Economics > Sociological aspects
Scarcity
Supply and demand
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.