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Author : Harold J. Barnett
Release : 1967
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Scarcity and Growth by : Harold J. Barnett
Download or read book Scarcity and Growth written by Harold J. Barnett. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resources management.
Author : Andreas Exner
Release : 2013
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 614/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Land and Resource Scarcity by : Andreas Exner
Download or read book Land and Resource Scarcity written by Andreas Exner. This book was released on 2013. 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.
Author : Edward B. Barbier
Release : 2010-12-23
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 655/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scarcity and Frontiers by : Edward B. Barbier
Download or read book Scarcity and Frontiers written by Edward B. Barbier. This book was released on 2010-12-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marcelle C. Dawson
Release : 2018
Genre : Natural resources
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Book Rating : 022/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Global Resource Scarcity by : Marcelle C. Dawson
Download or read book Global Resource Scarcity written by Marcelle C. Dawson. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional bounds of the interests of competitive nation states.
Author : Jean-David Gerber
Release : 2018-01-17
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Instruments of Land Policy by : Jean-David Gerber
Download or read book Instruments of Land Policy written by Jean-David Gerber. This book was released on 2018-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to standard land use plans. Effectively steering spatial development requires a keen understanding of these instruments of land policy. This book not only presents how such instruments function, it additionally examines how public authorities strategically manage the scarcity of land, either increasing or decreasing it, to promote a more sparing use of resources. It presents 13 instruments of land policy in specific national contexts and discusses them from the perspectives of other countries. Through the use of concrete examples, the book reveals how instruments of land policy are used strategically in different policy contexts.
