Book synopsis: Scarcity in the Modern World brings together world-renowned scholars to examine how concerns about the scarcity of environmental resources such as water, food, energy and materials have developed, and subsequently been managed, from the 18th to the 21st century. These multi-disciplinar...
Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society, and Sustainability, 1800-2075. Edited by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer, Neil Fromer, and Frank Trentmann. The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500–1870. By Paul Warde....
green leaf and 'stem' was studied in two varieties of perennial ryegrass during 30-week periods in each of the first two harvest years of a field exp... D Wilman,PT Wright - 《Journal of Agricultural Science》 被引量: 100发表: 1986年 Alien introgression in the grasses Lolium perenne (...
China has set an ambitious goal of developing a world-class megalopolis in the water-scarce Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region. This study investigates the water challenge the BTH region faces and the effects of main water conservation measures in the region towards the goal. An inter-city ...
Q1. In this world of petition, scarcity exists because people has unlimited wants. However goods don't mean free of charge but they are goods provided by nature, such as water. With the existence of free goods, scacity exists because free goods can not satisify all people's ...
1825-1848, and the Roots of Global Warming The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels are burnt in the world. How did we get caught up in this mess? This thesis returns to a crucial moment in the emergence of the fossil economy: ... ...
Water productivity has doubled. Australia’s system overcomes the usual objections because it confirms farmers’ rights to water and lets them have much of it for nothing.According to the third paragraph, which is true about water A. There is no such thing as water shortage in the world at...
The role of intellectual property (IP) in such a world is both controverted and critically important. Efforts to use IP to lock down the Internet have so far failed to stem the unauthorized distribution of content. But contrary to the predictions of IP theory, the result of that failure ...
While physical beauty has been argued to represent a scarce commodity due to genetic differences in physical attractiveness, we contend that the same notio
Changing energy profiles and consumption patterns following electrification in five rural villages, South Africa fuelwood has remained the most widespread fuel, and the amount used per month has not changed, despite increasing scarcity of wood in the local environmen... M Madubansi,CM Shackleton - ...