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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972- editor.

Brewer, John, editor.

Fromer, Neil Alan, editor.

Trentmann, Frank, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scarcity.

Supply and demand--History.

Supply and demand.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Scarcity in the modern world.

ISBN:

9781350040915

1350040916

OCLC:

1045650303

Publisher Number:

40028945486