Scarcity in the modern world : history, politics, society and sustainability, 1800-2075 / / Edited by John Brewer, Neil Fromer, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson & Frank Trentmann

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, NY : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2019; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.5/213
• Soggetto topico: Scarcity; Supply and demand - History; Economics - Sociolotical aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): BrewerJohn; FromerNeil Alan; JonssonFredrik Albritton <1972->; TrentmannFrank
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• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Scarcity in the modern world
• ISBN: 1-350-04094-0; 1-350-04093-2; 1-350-04092-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910552995203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II