Scarcity in the modern world history, politics, society and sustainability, 1800-2075
"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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2019.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654918606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making scarcity
- Jean-Laurent Rosenthal: scarcity: language and politics
- Lyla Metha and Amber Huff: untangling scarcity
- Rick Wilk: rethinking the relationships between scarcity, poverty and hunger: an anthropological perspective
- Neil Fromer: renewable energy: a story of abundance and scarcity: a scientific
- Perspective
- The power of projection
- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson: growth in the anthropocene
- Dave Rutledge: the great resources myth
- Jirg Friedrichs: escapology, or how to escape Malthusian traps
- Coping, managing, innovating at different scales
- Hugh Rockoff: U.S. mobilization in World War II as a model for coping
- With climate change
- Walker Hanlon: scarcity and innovation: lessons from the British economy during the U.S. Civil War
- Sigrid Schmalzer: China's great leap famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao, and material scarcity
- Heather Chappells: encounters with scarcity at a micro-scale: householders responses to drought as a continuum of "normal" practice
- Dynamics of distribution
- Elizabeth Chatterjee: a climate of scarcity: electricity in India, 1899-2016
- David Lamoureux: Lagos "scarce-city": investigating the roots of urban modernity in a colonial capital, 1900-1928
- Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann: energy shortages and the politics of time: resilience, redistribution and "normality" in Japan and East Germany, 1940s-70s
- Emma Stephens: food shortages: the role and limitations of markets in resolving food crises during the 2012 famine in the Sahel.
