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Scarcity in the Modern World brings together world-renowned scholars in an open access book 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.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer, Neil Fromer and Frank Trentmann
Part 1 Making Scarcity
2. Scarcity: Language and Politics, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
3. Untangling Scarcity, Amber Huff and Lyla Mehta
4. Rethinking the Relationships between Scarcity, Poverty and Hunger: An Anthropological Perspective, Richard Wilk
5. Renewable Energy: A Story of Abundance and Scarcity, Neil Fromer
Part 2 The Power of Projection
6. Growth in the Anthropocene, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
7. The Great Resources Myth, David Rutledge
8. Escapology, or How to Escape Malthusian Traps, Jörg Friedrichs
Part 3 Coping, Managing, Innovating at Different Scales
9. U.S. Mobilization during the Second World War as a Model for Coping with Climate Change, Hugh Rockoff
10. Scarcity and Innovation: Lessons from the British Economy during the U.S. Civil War, W. Walker Hanlon
11. China's Great Leap Famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao and Material Scarcity, Sigrid Schmalzer
12. Encounters with Scarcity at a Micro-Scale: Householders' Responses to Drought as a Continuum of Normal Practice, Heather Chappells
Part 4 Dynamics of Distribution
13. A Climate of Scarcity: Electricity in India, 1899-2016, Elizabeth Chatterjee
14. Lagos 'Scarce-City': Investigating the Roots of Urban Modernity in a Colonial Capital, 1900-1928, David Lamoureux
15. Energy Shortages and the Politics of Time: Resilience, Redistribution and 'Normality' in Japan and East Germany, 1940s-1970s, Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann
16. Food Shortages: The Role and Limitations of Markets in Resolving Food Crises during the 2012 Famine in the Sahel, Emma C. Stephens
Acknowledgements
Index
