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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barbier, Edward, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > History.
Natural resources.
Scarcity.
Economic development.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Histoire.
Ressources naturelles.
Rareté (Économie politique)
Développement économique.
natural resources.
economic development.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Economic development
Natural resources
Scarcity
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Ausbeutung
Natürliche Ressourcen
développement économique > ressources naturelles > exploitation > origines > 21e s. (début)
économie > rareté > ressources naturelles.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : scarcity and frontiers
  • The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC)
  • The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD)
  • The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to 1500)
  • Global frontiers and the rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914)
  • The Atlantic economy triangular trade (from 1500 to 1860)
  • The golden age of resource-based development (from 1870 to 1914)
  • The age of dislocation (from 1914 to 1950)
  • The contemporary era (from 1950 to the present)
  • Epilogue : the age of ecological scarcity?

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