Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800–2075
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- F Trentmann
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781350040939
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- 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-disciplinary contributions situate contemporary concerns about scarcity within their longer history, and address recent debates surrounding the future scarcity of fossil fuels, renewable energy and water up to 2075. The volume is innovative in bringing into dialogue historians with experts from economics, geography, political science, anthropology and material sciences. Through interdisciplinary collaboration this volume provides an innovative perspective that corrects previous scholarship which separated scientific and cultural issues. In doing so, it recognizes that this challenge is complex and requires a concerted effort to think about its political and social, as well as technical and economic dimensions. This collaboration required intense engagement on the part of the editors. The volume results from collaboration between the AHRC large grant project “Material Cultures of Energy” (Trentmann PI, 2014-17) and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). The collaboration involved an international conference in Pasadena and subsequent editorial work on select contributions plus the targeted recruitment of additional authors. Trentmann was awarded a Moore Distinguished Fellowship at CalTech. He was the primary organiser of the conference and primary editor overseeing the book proposal, dealing with the publisher, commissioning authors, and producing the book with targeted input from the other co-editors on matters of their expertise. The introduction was a shared effort. Trentmann is also responsible for half the substantive chapter (co-authored with Dr Hiroki Shin) on ‘Energy Shortages and the Politics of Time: Resilience, Redistribution and “Normality” in Japan and East Germany, 1940s–70s’. We are asking for this chapter to be assessed alongside and Trentmann’s overall editorial work and introduction.
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- Non-English
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