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Author | : R. David Professor Simpson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-05-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 113652472X |
In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth‘s limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book‘s more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.
Author | : Harold J. Barnett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : 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 | : R. David Simpson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-05-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1136524738 |
In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth‘s limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book‘s more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ralph David Simpson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Edward B Barbier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
Genre | : 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 | : United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lucas Bretschger |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2007-07-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402062931 |
The chapters in the book cover a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development. The book surveys existing literature as well as adds to frontier research. In particular, the following topics are studied: incentives for adoption and diffusion of clean technology, resource scarcity and limits to growth, international convergence of energy intensity, and the social norms shaping resource depletion.
Author | : Alberto Quadrio Curzio |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642788556 |
The analysis of the interactions between natural resource scarcity, technological innovation and the dynamics of eco- nomic systems has a long-standing tradition in economics. During the 1980s and the early 1990s, a new phase of these interactions initiated under the effects of technological revolution and the problem of the environment. The general concept behind this book is that the issue of natural resou- cesand the environment in relation to economic growth can- not be addressed without due consideration for the effects of technological innovation on thedynamics of economic sy- stems. Technological innovation alone, however, is not a sufficient condition for the sustainability of economic growth. Policies may have a role in solving the internatio- nal distribution problems generated by the non-converging development path of developed and developing countries. In particular, the new international order shaped by the events of the 1980s, made it possible for world management to ad- dress the problems of poverty and the environment.
Author | : V. Kerry Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135989389 |
Current views on resource availability are examined, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply. Originally published in 1979