Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity write by William Ophuls. This book was released on 1977. Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the author's thesis, Yale, 1973. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [249]-284.
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited write by William Ophuls. This book was released on 1992. Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Plato's Revenge
Plato's Revenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato's Revenge write by William Ophuls. This book was released on 2011-08-19. Plato's Revenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of “sustainability.” In this provocative call for a new ecological politics, William Ophuls starts from a radical premise: “sustainability” is impossible. We are on an industrial Titanic, fueled by rapidly depleting stocks of fossil hydrocarbons. Making the deck chairs from recyclable materials and feeding the boilers with biofuels is futile. In the end, the ship is doomed by the laws of thermodynamics and by the implacable biological and geological limits that are already beginning to pinch. Ophuls warns us that we are headed for a postindustrial future that, however technologically sophisticated, will resemble the preindustrial past in many important respects. With Plato's Revenge, Ophuls, author of Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, envisions political and social transformations that will lead to a new natural-law politics based on the realities of ecology, physics, and psychology. In a discussion that ranges widely—from ecology to quantum physics to Jungian psychology to Eastern religion to Western political philosophy—Ophuls argues for an essentially Platonic politics of consciousness dedicated to inner cultivation rather than outward expansion and the pursuit of perpetual growth. We would then achieve a way of life that is materially and institutionally simple but culturally and spiritually rich, one in which humanity flourishes in harmony with nature.
The Limits to Scarcity
The Limits to Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits to Scarcity write by Lyla Mehta. This book was released on 2013-05-13. The Limits to Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scarcity 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 humanity's 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 interventions? Theoretical and empirical chapters by leading academics and scholar-activists grapple with these issues by questioning scarcity's 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.
Political Ecology
Political Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Ecology write by Tor A. Benjaminsen. This book was released on 2021-02-08. Political Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues. Drawing on discourse and narrative analysis, Marxist political economy and insights from natural science, the book points at similarities, differences and inter-connections between environmental governance in the global North and South. A wide range of carefully curated case studies are presented, with a particular focus on Africa and Norway. Key themes of power, justice and environmental sustainability run through all chapters. The authors challenge established views and leading discourses and present research findings that may surprise readers. Chapters cover topics including wildlife conservation, climate change and conflicts, land grabbing, the effects of population growth on the environment, jihadism in the African Sahel, bioprospecting, feminist political ecology, and struggles around carbon mitigation within a fossil fuel-based economy. This introductory text provides tools and examples for both undergraduate and postgraduate students to better understand on-going struggles about some of the world’s most urgent challenges.
