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Storage and Scarcity: New Practices for Food, Energy and Water (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice) - Hardcover

Osti, Giorgio

 
9781472483010: Storage and Scarcity: New Practices for Food, Energy and Water (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1472483014 ISBN 13: 9781472483010
Verlag: Routledge, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In an era of abundance, at least part of humanity has stopped thinking about the future provision of basic vital resources such water, energy and food. Storage actions, with all their variants whether real or imagined, are sources of innovation in the provision and treatment of crucial resources. This book deals with cases of water, food, energy and biodiversity storage as a response to a new era of scarcity. Examining multilevel storage policies, consumers’ practices and local organisations, author Giorgio Osti explores a variety of examples such as the need to stock agriculture produce, the industry and practices of food conservation, the role of artificial water basins in controlling floods and droughts and the development of batteries able to compensate for the intermittence of renewable energy sources. Storage and self-sufficiency can be achieved in many technical ways, at different territorial levels and according to different policies or philosophies. Being more a grasshopper or an ant - the two extreme positions - depends not only on the technologies available but also on different analyses of the environment and different attitudes to the future. This book offers an environmentalist perspective that uncovers hidden or absent activities of ultramodern societies that will be useful to students of environmental sociology as well as those researching and studying at the interface of environmental studies and geography.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Giorgio Osti is a rural and environmental sociologist at the University of Trieste, Italy.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1472483014
ISBN 13 
9781472483010
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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