Scarcity in the modern world : history politics society and sustainability 1800 2075 Making scarcity Jean Laurent Rosenthal: scarcity: language and politics Lyla Metha and Amber Huff: untangling scarcity Rick Wilk: rethinking the relationships between scarcity poverty and hunger: an anthropological perspective Neil Fromer: renewable energy: a story of abundance and scarcity: a scientific Perspective The power of projection Fredrik Albritton Jonsson: growth in the anthropocene Dave Rutledge: the great resources myth Jirg Friedrichs: escapology or how to escape Malthusian traps Coping managing innovating at different scales Hugh Rockoff: U.S. mobilization in World War II as a model for coping With climate change Walker Hanlon: scarcity and innovation: lessons from the British economy during the U.S. Civil War Sigrid Schmalzer: Chinas great leap famine: Malthus Marx Mao and material scarcity Heather Chappells: encounters with scarcity at a micro scale: householders responses to drought as a continuum of normal practice Dynamics of distribution Elizabeth Chatterjee: a climate of scarcity: electricity in India 1899 2016 David Lamoureux: Lagos scarce city : investigating the roots of urban modernity in a colonial capital 1900 1928 Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann: energy shortages and the politics of time: resilience redistribution and normality in Japan and East Germany 1940s 70s Emma Stephens: food shortages: the role and limitations of markets in resolving food crises during the 2012 famine in the Sahel. Scarcity in the Modern World brings together world renowned scholars to examine how concerns about the scarcity of environmental resources such as water food energy and materials have developed and subsequently been managed from the 18th to the 21st century. These multi disciplinary contributions situate contemporary concerns about scarcity within their longer history and address recent forecasts and debates surrounding the future scarcity of fossil fuels renewable energy and water up to 2075. This book offers a fresh way of tackling the current challenge of meeting global needs in an increasingly resource stressed environment. By bringing together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines this volume provides an innovative multi disciplinary perspective that corrects previous scholarship which has discussed scientific and cultural issues separately. In doing so it recognizes that this challenge is complex and cannot be addressed by a single discipline but requires a concerted effort to think about its political and social as well as technical and economic dimensions. This volume is essential for all students and scholars of environmental and economic history. Bloomsbury Publishing