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Scarcity and frontiers : how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation /
"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 an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 748 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511992490 0511992491 9780511781131 051178113X 9786612967238 6612967234 9780511988707 0511988702 1107218861 9781107218864 0511993706 9780511993701 1282967231 9781282967236 0511991509 9780511991509 0511990529 9780511990526 0511986904 9780511986901 |