Book Description
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 : Marcelle C. Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : 9781138241022
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 : Marcelle C. Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1315281597
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. 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. The interdisciplinary background of the book’s contributors shifts the focus of the analysis beyond narrow theoretical treatments of international relations and resource diplomacy to broader examinations of the practicalities of cooperation in the context of competition and scarcity. Combining the insights of a range of social scientists with those of experts in the natural and bio-sciences—many of whom work as ‘resource practitioners’ outside the context of universities—the book works through the tensions between ‘thinking/theory’ and ‘doing/practice’, which so often plague the process of social change. These encounters with scarcity draw attention away from the myopic focus on market forces and allocation, and encourage us to recognise more fully the social nature of the tensions and opportunities that are associated with our shared dependence on resources that are not readily accessible to all. The book brings together experts on theorising scarcity and those on the scarcity of specific resources. It begins with a theoretical reframing of both the contested concept of scarcity and the underlying dynamics of resource diplomacy. The authors then outline the current tensions around resource scarcity or degradation and examine existing progress towards cooperative international management of resources. These include food and water scarcity, mineral exploration and exploitation of the oceans. Overall, the contributors propose a more hopeful and positive engagement among the world’s nations as they pursue the economic and social benefits derived from natural resources, while maintaining the ecological processes on which they depend.
Author : Andreas Exner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136223177
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 : Michael Klare
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780805055764
Klare argues that wars in the near future will be fought over the control of dwindling natural resources like oil and water.
Author : Harold J. Barnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135989176
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 : Resources for the Future
Publisher : [Baltimore] : Published for Resources for the Future by the Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN :
A detailed examination of the adequacy of natural resources in the U.S. to provide the standard of living expected.
Author : Dennis Pirages And Ken Cousins
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9788171885541
Author : Shlomi Dinar
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262014971
An argument that resource scarcity and environmental degradation can provide an impetus for cooperation among countries.
Author : Edward B Barbier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1135036616
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 : André Marcel Diederen
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9059724259