Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
|
Buy Now
Storage and Scarcity - New practices for food, energy and water (Hardcover, New Ed)
Loot Price: R4,442
Discovery Miles 44 420
|
|
Storage and Scarcity - New practices for food, energy and water (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.