Scarcity and frontiers : how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation /

Main Author: Barbier, Edward, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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245 1 |a Scarcity and frontiers :  |b how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation /  |c Edward B. Barbier. 
260 1 |a Cambridge, UK :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2011. 
300 1 |a xviii, 748 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 1 |a 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? 
650 1 |a Agriculture  |x Economic aspects  |x History. 
650 1 |a Natural resources 
650 1 |a Scarcity 
650 1 |a Economic development 
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