Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781844074570
,
9781136538940
Series Statement:
The Earthscan Science in Society Series
Note:
Cover -- The Limits to Scarcity -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword by Steve Rayner -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Why Does Scarcity Matter? -- Commentary -- 1 The Scare, Naturalization and Politicization of Scarcity -- 2 Everybody's Got the Fever: Scarcity and US National Energy Policy -- 3 The Ghosts of Malthus: Narratives and Mobilizations of Scarcity in the US Political Context -- Part II Economics and Scarcity -- Commentary -- 4 Economics and Scarcity: With Amartya Sen as Point of Departure? -- 5 Deconstructing Economic Interpretations of Sustainable Development: Limits, Scarcity and Abundance -- 6 Water Can and Ought to Run Freely: Reflections on the Notion of 'Scarcity' in Economics -- 7 A Bit of the Other: Why Scarcity Isn't All It's Cracked up to Be -- Part III Resource Scarcity, Institutional Arrangements and Policy Responses: Food, Agriculture, Water and Energy -- Commentary -- 8 'Scarcity' as Political Strategy: Reflections on Three Hanging Children -- 9 Seeing Scarcity: Understanding Soil Fertility in Africa -- 10 Chronic Hunger: A Problem of Scarcity or Inequity? -- 11 A Share Response to Water Scarcity: Moving beyond the Volumetric -- 12 Advocacy of Water Scarcity: Leakages in the Argument -- 13 The Construction and Destruction of Scarcity in Development: Water and Power Experiences in Nepal -- 14 Afterword: Looking beyond Scarcity? -- Appendix: Institute of Development Studies Conference Statement on Scarcity -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Mehta, Lyla The Limits to Scarcity Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9781844074570
Language:
English
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