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Published by Routledge, 2010
ISBN 10: 1844075427ISBN 13: 9781844075423
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Published by Routledge India, 2022
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Published by Practical Action, 2011
ISBN 10: 1853396923ISBN 13: 9781853396922
Seller: Frabjous Books, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xix, 270 pp. "The social, ecological, technological, financial, and institutional dynamics surrounding CLTS with wider lessons for sanitation policy and practice." Bright clean copy. Covers have some light shelf wear.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
ISBN 10: 0230522254ISBN 13: 9780230522251
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Published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2009
ISBN 10: 8178299003ISBN 13: 9788178299006
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gently used, no markings. No dust jacket, as issued.
Published by Orient Blackswan, 2011
ISBN 10: 8125043993ISBN 13: 9788125043997
Seller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Foreword by Steve Rayner Preface to the South Asian Edition List of Acronyms and Abbreviations IntroductionLyla Mehta Part I Why Does Scarcity Matter CommentaryLyla Mehta 1 The Scare Naturalization and Politicization of ScarcityLyla Mehta 2 Everybody?s Got the Fever Scarcity and US National Energy PolicyNicholas Xenos The Ghosts of Malthus Narratives and Mobilizations of Scarcity in the US Political ContextBetsy Hartmann Part II Economics and Scarcity CommentaryLyla Mehta 1 Economics and Scarcity With Amartya Sen as Point of DepartureBen Fine 2 Deconstructing Economic Interpretations of Sustainable Development Limits Scarcity and AbundanceFred Luks 3 Water Can and Ought to Run Freely Reflections on the Notion of Scarcity in EconomicsSajay Samuel and Jean Robert 4 A Bit of the Other Why Scarcity Isn?t All It?s Cracked up to BeMichael Thompson Part III Resource Scarcity Institutional Arrangements and Policy Responses Food Agriculture Water and Energy CommentaryLyla Mehta 1 Scarcity as Political Strategy Reflections on Three Hanging ChildrenNicholas Hildyard 2 Seeing Scarcity Understanding Soil Fertility in AfricaIan Scoones 3 Chronic Hunger A Problem of Scarcity or InequityErik Millstone 4 A Share Response to Water Scarcity Moving beyond the VolumetricBruce Lankford 5 Advocacy of Water Scarcity Leakages in the ArgumentJasveen Jairath 6 The Construction and Destruction of Scarcity in Development Water and Power Experiences in NepalDipak Gyawali and Ajaya Dixit Afterword Look beyond ScarcityLyla Mehta Appendix Institute of Development Studies Conference Statement on Scarcity IndexScarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanitys survival on the planet It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact of our lives - be it of housing food water or oil But has the conception of scarcity been politicized naturalized and universalized in academic and policy debates Has overhasty recourse to scarcity evoked a standard set of market institutional and technological solutions which have blocked out political contestations overlooking access as a legitimate focus for academic debates as well as policies and interventionsTheoretical and empirical chapters by leading academics and scholar-activists grapple with these issues by questioning scarcitys taken-for-granted nature They examine scarcity debates across three of the most important resources - food water and energy - and their implications for theory institutional arrangements policy responses and innovation systems The book looks at how scarcity has emerged as a totalizing discourse in both the North and South The scare of scarcity has led to scarcity emerging as a political strategy for powerful groups Aggregate numbers and physical quantities are trusted while local knowledges and experiences of scarcity that identify problems more accurately and specifically are ignored Science and technology are expected to provide solutions but such expectations embody a multitude of unexamined assumptions about the nature of the problem about the technologies and about the institutional arrangements put forward as a fix Through this examination the authors demonstrate that scarcity is not a natural condition the problem lies in how we see scarcity and the ways in which it is socially generated 300 pp.
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Published by Institute of Development Studies 2021-12-23, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1032190787ISBN 13: 9781032190785
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
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Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
ISBN 10: 1138729183ISBN 13: 9781138729186
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Published by Weaver Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 1779223145ISBN 13: 9781779223142
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Published by Earthscan, London, 2010
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Softcover. Condition: Good+. Softcover; 270 pages. Purple glossy softcover with white and black text. Moderate shelfwear. Some corners slightly bumped. The pages are bright and clean. Two pages are dog-eared. GOOD+.
Published by Orient Blackswan, 2005
ISBN 10: 8125028692ISBN 13: 9788125028697
Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Contains pencil markings. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Published by Institute of Development Studies, 1999
ISBN 10: 185864285XISBN 13: 9781858642857
Seller: Buchpark, Trebbin, Germany
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Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
ISBN 10: 1349356972ISBN 13: 9781349356973
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
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Condition: New. Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or so-called 'development', are conditions which characterise the lives of millions across the globe.This book analyses a range of displacement situations, including development 'oustees', refugees and internally displaced persons." Editor(s): Grabska, Katarzyna; Mehta, Lyla. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFF; JFFN; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. . . 2008. Paperback. . . . .
Published by Routledge 2021-12-23, 2021
ISBN 10: 1032190795ISBN 13: 9781032190792
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Published by Routledge 2019-05-31, 2019
ISBN 10: 1138729167ISBN 13: 9781138729162
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Published by Taylor and Francis, 2010
ISBN 10: 1844074579ISBN 13: 9781844074570
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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