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رقم التسجيلة
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21081
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نوع المادة
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book
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ردمك
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9780521877732
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رقم الطلب
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333.7 B236s
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المؤلف
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Barbier, Edward
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العنوان
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Scarcity and frontiers : how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation / Edward Barbier
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بيانات النشر
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Cambridge, [UNITED KINGDOM]: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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الوصف المادي
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xviii, 748 p
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الملاحظات الببليوجرافية
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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المحتويات / النص
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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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المستخلص
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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المواضيع
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Natural resources
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الواصفات
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AGRICULTUREECONOMIC ASPECTSNATURAL RESOURCESECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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