The Limits to Scarcity

by Mehta, Lyla

• ISBN13: 9781844075423
• ISBN10: 1844075427
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores case study material from the UK, the US and the Netherlands and draws conclusions relevant to conflicts and policies in all jurisdictions.

Author Biography

Lyla Mehta is a sociologist and Research Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Foreword	p. xvii
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. xxi
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
Why Does Scarcity Matter?
Commentary	p. 11
The Scare, Naturalization and Politicization of Scarcity	p. 13
Everybody's Got the Fever: Scarcity and US National Energy Policy	p. 31
The Ghosts of Malthus: Narratives and Mobilizations of Scarcity in the US Political Context	p. 49
Economics and Scarcity
Commentary	p. 69
Economics and Scarcity: With Amartya Sen as Point of Departure?	p. 73
Deconstructing Economic Interpretations of Sustainable Development: Limits, Scarcity and Abundance	p. 93
Water Can and Ought to Run Freely: Reflections on the Notion of 'Scarcity' in Economics	p. 109
A Bit of the Other: Why Scarcity Isn't All It's Cracked up to Be	p. 127
Resource Scarcity, Institutional Arrangements and Policy Responses: Food, Agriculture, Water and Energy
Commentary	p. 145
'Scarcity' as Political Strategy: Reflections on Three Hanging Children	p. 149
Seeing Scarcity: Understanding Soil Fertility in Africa	p. 165
Chronic Hunger: A Problem of Scarcity of Inequity?	p. 179
A Share Response to Water Scarcity: Moving beyond the Volumetric	p. 195
Advocacy of Water Scarcity: Leakages in the Argument	p. 215
The Construction and Destruction of Scarcity in Development: Water and Power Experiences in Nepal	p. 233
Afterword: Looking beyond Scarcity?	p. 253
Appendix: Institute of Development Studies Conference Statement on Scarcity	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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