Scarcity and frontiers : how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation
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Scarcity and frontiers : how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation
Cambridge University Press, 2011
- : pbk
- : hbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates incentives in all economies to innovate and conserve more of these resources. However, economies have also responded to increasing scarcity by obtaining and developing more of these resources. Since the agricultural transition over 12,000 years ago, this exploitation of new 'frontiers' has often proved to be a pivotal human response to natural resource scarcity. This book provides a fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in key eras of world history. This not only fills an important gap in the literature on economic history but also shows how we can draw lessons from these past epochs for attaining sustainable economic development in the world today.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: scarcity and frontiers
- 2. The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC)
- 3. The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD)
- 4. The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to 1500)
- 5. Global frontiers and the rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914)
- 6. The Atlantic economy triangular trade (from 1500 to 1860)
- 7. The golden age of resource-based development (from 1870 to 1914)
- 8. The age of dislocation (from 1914 to 1950)
- 9. The contemporary era (from 1950 to present)
- 10. Epilogue: the age of ecological scarcity?
- Index.
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