Scarcity And Frontiers

Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139493468

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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 Barbier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0511986904

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Scarcity and Frontiers by Edward 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 : Julie Michelle Klinger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501714610

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Rare Earth Frontiers by Julie Michelle Klinger Pdf

Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible teverything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the miniaturization of the phone?s circuitry. On the periodic table rare earth elements comprise a set of seventeen chemical elements (the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium). There would be no Pokémon Go without rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography. Klinger looks historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning.

Author : Andreas Exner,Peter Fleissner,Lukas Kranzl,Werner Zittel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136223174

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Land and Resource Scarcity by Andreas Exner,Peter Fleissner,Lukas Kranzl,Werner Zittel Pdf

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.

Author : John F. Richards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520230752

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The Unending Frontier by John F. Richards Pdf

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Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107179264

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Natural Resources and Economic Development by Edward B. Barbier Pdf

The second edition of this landmark book explores how natural resources contribute to development in poor economies.

Author : Peter Wagner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509557103

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Carbon Societies by Peter Wagner Pdf

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of fossil fuels. Population growth, desire for freedom from want and profit-seeking all played major roles in shaping human history, but there has been no inevitable drive towards heating up the atmosphere in the pursuit of social objectives. To sustain a growing population, more natural resources are required, but their use does not need to generate climate change. No logic of modernity links freedom with a kind of material abundance that requires the burning of fossil fuels. No logic of capital necessarily ties the search for profit to the extraction of fossil resources. Examining the critical junctures in human history when resource regimes changed, this book identifies the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels and the power hierarchies that shaped the decisions to use them. Wagner argues that the key choices that led to the climate emergency were made relatively recently, during the second half of the 20th century: they are close enough in time for us to undo the prevailing social logic of fossil fuels. By redefining the key problems that humankind is facing and reshaping the existing mechanisms of power, we can take the decisive action needed to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change.

Author : Adam Szirmai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107045958

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Socio-Economic Development by Adam Szirmai Pdf

Taking a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, this textbook offers a non-technical introduction to the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation.

Author : John N. Drobak,John V. C. Nye
Publisher : Emerald Group Pub Limited
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0122222407

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The Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics by John N. Drobak,John V. C. Nye Pdf

The New Institutional Economics incorporates a theory of institutions into economics. It builds upon the fundamental assumptions of scarcity and competition but abandons institutional rationality. Consequently, NIE assumes that individuals make choices based on incomplete information and limited mental capacity, forming institutions to reduce uncertainty in human exchange. These insights have implications for technological change, property rights, and public choice. The Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics presents new essays written specifically for this volume. These essays Provide an introduction to the nature and practice of the New Institutional Economics, with a special emphasis on economic history and political economy. Among the contributors are Nobel Prize winners Douglass North and Robert Fogel. Key Features * Contains essays by Nobel Prize winners Douglass North and Robert Fogel * Presents a field of economics useful to students of political science and sociology. * Applicable to studies of technological change, property rights, and public choice

Author : Tomoko Shiroyama
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811303753

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Modern Global Trade and the Asian Regional Economy by Tomoko Shiroyama Pdf

This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s. Since then, Japanese historians of the socioeconomic history of Asia have explored how the traditional trade relations that had developed over the centuries in Asia responded to the so-called Western impacts in the mid-nineteenth century, including the opening of ports and tariff reduction under free trade regimes and the advance in transportation technology. Against this academic background, the four chapters in this volume examine how overseas Chinese, some of the key actors in regional and local trade, dealt with their Western counterparts, and how Asian commodities penetrated other parts of the world through the newly created web of global commerce. The book reviews discuss theoretical issues to explore various connections among and comparisons of the economies in the region. This volume provides readers with critical insights into the Asian region in the past and present by investigating the long-term trajectory of its linkages to the global economy.

Author : Josefina Maestu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415638210

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Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity by Josefina Maestu Pdf

Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it. One of the key water management options for water demand is water trading. This book explores the role of water trading, as an instrument of integrated water resources management.

Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139503068

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Capitalizing on Nature by Edward B. Barbier Pdf

The basic unit of nature – the ecosystem – is a special form of wealth, which we can think of as a stock of natural capital. However, perhaps because this capital is free, we have tended to view it as limitless, abundant and always available for our use, exploitation and conversion. Capitalizing on Nature shows how modeling ecosystems as natural capital can help us to analyze the economic behavior that has led to the overuse of so much ecological wealth. It explains how this concept of ecosystem as natural capital sheds light on a number of important issues, including landscape conversion, ecological restoration, ecosystem resilience and collapse, spatial benefits and payments for ecosystem services. The book concludes by focusing on major policy challenges that need to be overcome in order to avert the worsening problem of ecological scarcity and how we can fund novel financing mechanisms for global conservation.

Author : Edward Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781108830829

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Economics for a Fragile Planet by Edward Barbier Pdf

As global environmental challenges mount, this book offers a policy blueprint for building a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.

Author : Neva R. Goodwin,Frank Ackerman,David Kiron
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597267908

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The Consumer Society by Neva R. Goodwin,Frank Ackerman,David Kiron Pdf

The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluent consumers.The Consumer Society provides brief summaries of the most important and influential writings on the environmental, moral, and social implications of a consumer society and consumer lifestyles. Each section consists of ten to twelve summaries of critical writings in a specific area, with an introductory essay that outlines the state of knowledge in that area and indicates where further research is needed. Sections cover: Scope and Definition Consumption in the Affluent Society Family, Gender, and Socialization The History of Consumerism Foundations of Economic Theories of Consumption Critiques and Alternatives in Economic Theory Perpetuating Consumer Culture: Media, Advertising, and Wants Creation Consumption and the Environment Globalization and Consumer Culture Visions of an Alternative This book is the second volume in the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought series, which provides surveys of the most significant writings in emergent areas of economics -- an invaluable aid in fast-growing fields where genuine new ground is being broken. The series brings together economists, sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers to develop analyses that challenge and enrich the dominant neoclassical paradigm.The Consumer Society is an essential guide to and summary of the literature of consumption and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the deeper economic, social, and ethical implications of consumerism.

Author : Gus Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0394595696

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Scarcity by Gus Tyler Pdf