Tag: Scarcity

International water scarcity and variability managing resource use across political boundaries


Free Download International water scarcity and variability: managing resource use across political boundaries By Dinar, Ariel;Dinar, Shlomi
2017 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 0520283074 | EPUB | 10 MB
Introduction : the debate on climate change and water security — Theory of scarcity-variability, conflict, and cooperation — Emergence of cooperation under scarcity and variability — Institutions and the stability of cooperative arrangements under scarcity and variability — Incentives to cooperate : political and economic instruments — Evidence-how do basin riparian countries cope with water scarcity and variability — Conclusion and policy implications;"International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholarship tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward war, Shlomi Dinar and Ariel Dinar prove that there are many examples of and mechanisms for more peaceful dispute resolution regarding natural resources, even in the face of water paucity and climate change. The authors base these arguments on both global empirical analyses and case studies. Using numerous examples that focus on North America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, this book asks scholars and policy makers to consider strategies and incentives to help lessen conflict and motivate cooperation under scarcity and increased variability of water resources"–Provided by ✅Publisher.

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The Invention of Scarcity Malthus and the Margins of History [Audiobook]


Free Download The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9VYR5NT | 2023 | 8 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Deborah Valenze
Narrator: Suzanne Toren

With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production. Valenze returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the ways that people adapted to the challenges of subsistence needs.

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