Resource Scarcity Economic Growth And The Environment

Author : R. David Simpson,Michael A. Toman,Robert U. Ayres
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136524738

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Scarcity and Growth Revisited by R. David Simpson,Michael A. Toman,Robert U. Ayres Pdf

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.

Author : Harold J. Barnett,Chandler Morse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135989170

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Scarcity and Growth by Harold J. Barnett,Chandler Morse Pdf

In this classic study, the authors assess the importance of technological change and resource substitution in support of their conclusion that resource scarcity did not increase in the Unites States during the period 1870 to 1957. Originally published in 1963

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Economic development
ISBN : LOC:00170579136

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Resource Scarcity, Economic Growth, and the Environment by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government Pdf

Author : Ralph David Simpson,Michael A. Toman,Robert U. Ayres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114111508

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Scarcity and Growth Revisited by Ralph David Simpson,Michael A. Toman,Robert U. Ayres Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Edward B Barbier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135036621

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

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.

Author : Prem C. Garg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351593632

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Optimal Economic Growth with Exhaustible Resources by Prem C. Garg Pdf

Originally published in 1979. For decades conservationists have argued that increasing population will eventually out-strip the limited natural resources of the earth. Economists have responded by saying that any resource scarcity will be forestalled by changes in tastes and technology, induced by the appropriate price signals. This study is an attempt to develop a theoretical framework for analysing some of the issues related to this debate. Using an optimal growth theory framework, the author analyses the problem of optimally allocating a finite stock of the resource over time. In the process the author points out the crucial parameters and value judgments relevant to the various issues. This title will be of interest to students of environmental economics.

Author : Lucas Bretschger,Sjak Smulders
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402062933

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Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics by Lucas Bretschger,Sjak Smulders Pdf

The chapters in the book cover a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development. The book surveys existing literature as well as adds to frontier research. In particular, the following topics are studied: incentives for adoption and diffusion of clean technology, resource scarcity and limits to growth, international convergence of energy intensity, and the social norms shaping resource depletion.

Author : V. Kerry Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135989385

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Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered by V. Kerry Smith Pdf

Current views on resource availability are examined, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply. Originally published in 1979

Author : Alberto Quadrio Curzio,Marco Fortis,Roberto Zoboli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642788550

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Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth by Alberto Quadrio Curzio,Marco Fortis,Roberto Zoboli Pdf

The analysis of the interactions between natural resource scarcity, technological innovation and the dynamics of eco- nomic systems has a long-standing tradition in economics. During the 1980s and the early 1990s, a new phase of these interactions initiated under the effects of technological revolution and the problem of the environment. The general concept behind this book is that the issue of natural resou- cesand the environment in relation to economic growth can- not be addressed without due consideration for the effects of technological innovation on thedynamics of economic sy- stems. Technological innovation alone, however, is not a sufficient condition for the sustainability of economic growth. Policies may have a role in solving the internatio- nal distribution problems generated by the non-converging development path of developed and developing countries. In particular, the new international order shaped by the events of the 1980s, made it possible for world management to ad- dress the problems of poverty and the environment.

Author : Clement Allan Tisdell
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034788781

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Natural Resources, Growth, and Development by Clement Allan Tisdell Pdf

Focuses on the environmental consequences of economic change and argues that the management and conservation of biological resources is a requirement for sustained economic growth. The author suggests a course of action which will allow economic growth while protecting resources.

Author : Dennis Pirages And Ken Cousins
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 8171885543

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

Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139493468

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Scarcity and Frontiers by Edward B. Barbier Pdf

Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates incentives in all economies to innovate and conserve more of these resources. However, economies have also responded to increasing scarcity by obtaining and developing more of these resources. Since the agricultural transition over 12,000 years ago, this exploitation of new 'frontiers' has often proved to be a pivotal human response to natural resource scarcity. This book provides a fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in key eras of world history. This not only fills an important gap in the literature on economic history but also shows how we can draw lessons from these past epochs for attaining sustainable economic development in the world today.

Author : Edward A. Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429726125

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Japan: Economic Growth, Resource Scarcity, And Environmental Constraints by Edward A. Olsen Pdf

This study evaluates, from a neo-Malthusian perspective, Japan's current status and its prognosis in the context of the country's economic vulnerabilities. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Malthus, N. Georgescu-Roegen, H. and M. Sprout, and assorted environmental-ecological doomsayers, the author reaches pessimistic conclusions about Japan's very long term prospects, but holds out some slim hope for Japan if international cooperation of nearly Utopian dimensions can be achieved.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1617260002

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Scarcity and Growth by Anonim Pdf

For almost 60 years, RFF has pioneered the application of economics as a tool to develop more effective policy about the use and conservation of natural resources. It remains the world's premier institution for the study of environmental economics. This collection of eight books represents many of the best works that RFF has published, including writings by Nobel Prize winning economists.The RFF Library Collection brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as the pre-eminent...

Author : Michael N. Dobkowski,Isidor Wallimann
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815629435

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On the Edge of Scarcity by Michael N. Dobkowski,Isidor Wallimann Pdf

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.