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Land and Resource Scarcity

Author : Andreas Exner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136223177
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Land and Resource Scarcity written by Andreas Exner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be created. The book combines natural science with emancipatory thinking, focusing on bottom up alternatives and social struggles to change the world by taking action. The volume introduces original contributions to the debates on peak oil, land grabbing and social alternatives, thus creating a synthesis to gain an overview of the multiple crises of our times. The book sets out to analyse how crises of energy, climate, metals, minerals and the soil relate to the global land grab which has accelerated greatly since 2008, as well as to examine the crisis of profit production and political legitimacy. Based on a theoretical understanding of the multiple crises and the effects of peak oil and other scarcities on capital accumulation, the contributors explore the social innovations that provide an alternative. Using the most up to date research on resource crises, this integrative and critical analysis brings together the issues with a radical perspective on possibilites for future change as well as a strong social economic and ethical dimesion. The book should be of interest to researchers and students of environmental policy, politics, sustainable development and natural resource management.

Beyond Resource Wars

Author : Shlomi Dinar
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262014971
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Resource Wars written by Shlomi Dinar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that resource scarcity and environmental degradation can provide an impetus for cooperation among countries.

Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World

Author : Philip Sadler
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317047796
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World written by Philip Sadler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society. In it he predicted that business would experience the most radical transformation since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. This transformation has now taken place. In his latest book, Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World, Sadler charts developments once envisaged by Keynes, Chase, Galbraith and Packard, and more recent radical thinkers such as Chris Anderson. Sadler describes how many goods and services have moved from relative scarcity to relative abundance, and asks how this trend can be reconciled with the global issues of population growth and climate change. He assesses the impact of new technologies, new energy sources, new materials and the development of artificial intelligence, on business, government and economics, and discusses the challenges ahead - the creation of new business models, the need to meet people's legitimate expectations of improved living conditions while avoiding environmental catastrophe, and the need to adapt ideas developed in scarcity to conditions of abundance. Why is it that in countries foremost in creating post-scarcity conditions, millions are still in poverty, and billions, worldwide, still lack basic necessities of life? Philip Sadler agrees with those who say the relief of global poverty cannot rely on aid and corporate philanthropy. He explores the idea of re-engineering products and delivering them into bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) markets, and concludes that the more global companies take this route, as some are already doing, the more profitable they will find it, and this will in turn help the poorest people who currently pay more for goods and services - the 'poverty penalty' - than the rich.

Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World

Author : Mr Philip Sadler
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409459616
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World written by Mr Philip Sadler and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society. In it he predicted that business would experience the most radical transformation since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. This transformation has now taken place. In his latest book, Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World, Sadler charts developments once envisaged by Keynes, Chase, Galbraith and Packard, and more recent radical thinkers such as Chris Anderson. Sadler describes how many goods and services have moved from relative scarcity to relative abundance, and asks how this trend can be reconciled with the global issues of population growth and climate change. He assesses the impact of new technologies, new energy sources, new materials and the development of artificial intelligence, on business, government and economics, and discusses the challenges ahead – the creation of new business models, the need to meet people's legitimate expectations of improved living conditions while avoiding environmental catastrophe, and the need to adapt ideas developed in scarcity to conditions of abundance. Why is it that in countries foremost in creating post-scarcity conditions, millions are still in poverty, and billions, worldwide, still lack basic necessities of life? Philip Sadler agrees with those who say the relief of global poverty cannot rely on aid and corporate philanthropy. He explores the idea of re-engineering products and delivering them into bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) markets, and concludes that the more global companies take this route, as some are already doing, the more profitable they will find it, and this will in turn help the poorest people who currently pay more for goods and services – the 'poverty penalty' – than the rich.

Scarcity and Growth Revisited

Author : R. David Professor Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113652472X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Scarcity and Growth Revisited written by R. David Professor Simpson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth‘s limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book‘s more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

Author : Julia Wright
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849772738
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity by : Julia Wright

Download or read book Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity written by Julia Wright and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s. The author identifies the policies and practices required for such an achievement under conditions of petroleum-scarcity and in doing so, challenges the mainstream globalized and privatized food systems and food security strategies being driven through in both industrialized and more vulnerable developing regions. Paradoxically, the book dispels the myth that Cuba turned to organic farming nationwide, a myth founded on the success of Cuba's urban organic production systems which visitors to the country are most commonly exposed to. In rural regions, where the author had unique access, industrialized high-input and integrated agriculture is aspired to for the majority of domestic production, despite the ongoing fluctuations in availability of agrochemicals and fuel. By identifying the challenges faced by Cuban institutions and individuals in de-industrializing their food and farming systems, this book provides crucial learning material for the current fledgling attempts at developing energy descent plans and at mainstreaming more organic food systems in industrialized nations. It also informs international policy on sustainable agriculture and food security for less-industrialized countries.

Global Groundwater

Author : Abhijit Mukherjee
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128181729
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Global Groundwater written by Abhijit Mukherjee and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions presents a compilation of compelling insights into groundwater scenarios within all groundwater-stressed regions across the world. Thematic sub-sections include groundwater studies on sources, scarcity, sustainability, security, and solutions. The chapters in these sub-sections provide unique knowledge on groundwater for scientists, planners, and policymakers, and are written by leading global experts and researchers. Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions provides a unique, unparalleled opportunity to integrate the knowledge on groundwater, ranging from availability to pollution, nation-level groundwater management to transboundary aquifer governance, and global-scale review to local-scale case-studies.

From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security Exploring New Limits to Growth

Author : Dennis Pirages And Ken Cousins
Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171885541
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security Exploring New Limits to Growth by : Dennis Pirages And Ken Cousins

Download or read book From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security Exploring New Limits to Growth written by Dennis Pirages And Ken Cousins and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Edward B Barbier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135036616
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals) by : Edward B Barbier

Download or read book Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals) written by Edward B Barbier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded. Using insights provided by environmentalism, ecology and thermo-dynamics, this book – first published in 1989 – outlines an economic approach to the use of natural resources and particularly to the problem of environmental degradation. Edward Barbier reviews and critiques the long past of environmental and resource economics and then goes on to elaborate an economics which allows us to develop alternative strategies for dealing with the problems faced. With examples drawn from Latin America and Indonesia, he not only develops a major theoretical advance but shows how it can be applied. Barbier’s work is an important and relevant contribution to the discussion surrounding the economics of environmental sustainability.

Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity

Author : Saeid Eslamian
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351851160
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity by : Saeid Eslamian

Download or read book Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity written by Saeid Eslamian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines the environmental aspects of drought such as groundwater and soil contamination, river low-flow, urban water quality, and desertification. It also examines the effects of climate change and variability on drought, and discusses the differences in groundwater, rainfall, and temperatures and their related effects. It presents analytical modeling for better understanding drought in uncertain and changing climates.

Scarcity in the Modern World

Author : Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350040916
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Scarcity in the Modern World written by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

On the Edge of Scarcity

Author : Michael N. Dobkowski
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629436
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book On the Edge of Scarcity written by Michael N. Dobkowski and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernization and Industrialization have presented the human race with many problems, inflicting deprivation, poverty, war and premature death on millions of people. Until recently, however, solutions were achievable. Drawn from the much-acclaimed Coming Age of Scarcity and adapted here for general classroom use, this work will be an ideal introduction to courses in population, environment and resources, genocide studies, and social conflict. As we enter the twenty-first century, several components converge, namely population, land for cultivation, energy resources, and environmental carrying capacity. Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann establish a realistic projection of the disastrous future that awaits humankind as surplus populations collide with dwindling resources. Scholars from a variety of disciplines investigate the problems and suggest ways to maximize individual and collective survival, discussing cause-and-effect scenarios concerning industrialization, biophysical limits, exponential population growth, and genocide.

Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity

Author : Saeid Eslamian
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351851179
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity by : Saeid Eslamian

Download or read book Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity written by Saeid Eslamian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines the environmental aspects of drought such as groundwater and soil contamination, river low-flow, urban water quality, and desertification. It also examines the effects of climate change and variability on drought, and discusses the differences in groundwater, rainfall, and temperatures and their related effects. It presents analytical modeling for better understanding drought in uncertain and changing climates.

Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene

Author : Hans Günter Brauch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319975625
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene by : Hans Günter Brauch

Download or read book Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene written by Hans Günter Brauch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into Anthropocene-related studies by IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission. The first three chapters discuss the linkage between disasters and conflict risk reduction, responses to socio-environmental disasters in high-intensity conflict scenarios and the fragile state of disaster response with a special focus on aid-state-society relations in post-conflict settings. The two following chapters analyse climate-smart agriculture and a sustainable food system for a sustainable-engendered peace and the ethnology of select indigenous cultural resources for climate change adaptation focusing on the responses of the Abagusii in Kenya. A specific case study focuses on social representations and the family as a social institution in transition in Mexico, while the last chapter deals with sustainable peace through sustainability transition as transformative science concluding with a peace ecology perspective for the Anthropocene.

The Globalization of Environmental Crisis

Author : Jan Oosthoek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317968956
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Globalization of Environmental Crisis written by Jan Oosthoek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community. The contributors include social scientists, environmental historians, anthropologists, and science policy researchers, and together they give an overview of the history of the globalization of environmental crisis over the past several decades, both in terms of the science of measurement and the types of policy and public responses that have emerged to date. The specific issue areas addressed in the book cover a wide range of topics, including international environmental governance, North-South inequalities, climate change, global warming, tropical forests, air pollution, economic and paradigm shifts, sustainability, indigenous peoples and eco-conservation, EU environmental policy, the United States and politicized climate science, and more. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis will be of particular interest to all those concerned with the on-going debate over the state of the global environment and what to do about it.

Climate Change and Resource Conflict

Author : Judith M. Bretthauer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317282973
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Resource Conflict written by Judith M. Bretthauer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the links between climate change and resource scarcity to violent conflict. Does climate change cause conflicts? This book analyses the economic, political and social conditions under which countries with low levels of freshwater or arable land experience armed conflict. There are strong theoretic arguments linking climate change and scarcity of livelihood resources to conflict. However, empirical accounts are contradictory. Using qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), this book compares 22 political, economic and social conditions across 30 countries experiencing scarcity of available freshwater or arable land. The results show that there are three types of resource-scarce countries that experience conflicts: (neo)patrimonial states, oil-rich states that are poorly integrated into the global economy and least developed states. In addition, the results reveal that there are two types of resource scarce countries that remain peaceful: non-agrarian countries with either even development between groups or high integration into the global economy with high levels of adaptive capacities. This explains the contradictory results of previous empirical studies and suggests that resource scarcity might contribute to conflict in least developed countries. This book will be of much interest to students of climate change, critical security, peace and conflict studies, and IR in general.

International Trade, Economic Crisis and the Sustainable Development Goals

Author : Tonmoy Chatterjee
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1837535868
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book International Trade, Economic Crisis and the Sustainable Development Goals written by Tonmoy Chatterjee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing international trade as a path for achieving the SDGs, this curated collection envisions a more equitable and sustainable world, one where the benefits of international trade are fairly distributed, where economic crises are met with resilience and innovation and where the SDGs are not just aspirations but lived realities.