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Scarcity in the Modern World : History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075, Hardback Book

Scarcity in the Modern World : History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075 Hardback

Edited by John (California Institute of Technology, USA) Brewer, Neil (California Institute of Technology, USA) Fromer, Fredrik (University of Chicago, USA) Albritton Jonsson, Professor Frank (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) Trentmann

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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.

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