Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800–2075

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nNotes on Contributors\n1 Introduction\nPart 1 Making Scarcity\n	2 Scarcity: Language and Politics\n	3 Untangling Scarcity\n	4 Rethinking the Relationships between Scarcity, Poverty and Hunger: An Anthropological Perspective\n	5 Renewable Energy: A Story of Abundance and Scarcity\nPart 2 The Power of Projection\n	6 Growth in the Anthropocene\n	7 The Great Resources Myth\n	8 Escapology, or How to Escape Malthusian Traps\nPart 3 Coping, Managing, Innovating at Different Scales\n	9 U.S. Mobilization during the Second World War as a Model for Coping with Climate Change\n	10 Scarcity and Innovation: Lessons from the British Economy during the U.S. Civil War\n	11 China’s Great Leap Famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao and Material Scarcity\n	12 Encounters with Scarcity at a Micro-Scale: Householders’ Responses to Drought as a Continuum of Normal Practice\nPart 4 Dynamics of Distribution\n	13 A Climate of Scarcity: Electricity in India, 1899–2016\n	14 Lagos ‘Scarce-City’: Investigating the Roots of Urban Modernity in a Colonial Capital, 1900–1928\n	15 Energy Shortages and the Politics of Time: Resilience, Redistribution and ‘Normality’ in Japan and East Germany, 1940s–1970s\n	16 Food Shortages: The Role and Limitations of Markets in Resolving Food Crises during the 2012 Famine in the Sahel\nAcknowledgements\nIndex