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A Climate of Scarcity: Electricity in India, 1899–2016
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 forecasts and debates surrounding the future scarcity of fossil fuels, renewable energy and water up to 2075. This book offers a fresh way of tackling the current challenge of meeting global needs in an increasingly resource-stressed environment. By bringing together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this volume provides an innovative multi-disciplinary perspective that corrects previous scholarship which has discussed scientific and cultural issues separately. In doing so, it recognizes that this challenge is complex and cannot be addressed by a single discipline, but requires a concerted effort to think about its political and social, as well as technical and economic dimensions. This volume is essential for all students and scholars of environmental and economic history
Participatory authoritarianism: From bureaucratic transformation to civic participation in Russia and China
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this recordThis article explores the way in which Russian and Chinese governments have rearticulated
global trends towards active citizenship and participatory governance, and integrated them into preexisting illiberal political traditions. The concept of ‘participatory authoritarianism’ is proposed in order
to capture the resulting practices of local governance that, on the one hand enable citizens to engage
directly with local officials in the policy process, but limit, direct and control civic participation on the
other. The article explores the emergence of discourses of active citizenship at the national level and
the accompanying legislative development of government-organised participatory mechanisms,
demonstrating how the twin logics of openness and control, pluralism and monism, are built into their
rationale and implementation. It argues that as state bureaucracies have integrated into international
financial markets, so new participatory mechanisms have become more important for local governance
as government agencies have lost the monopoly of information for effective policy-making. Practices
of participatory authoritarianism enable governments to implement public sector reform while directing
increased civic agency into non-threatening channels.British Academ
Scarcity in the Modern World
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 forecasts and debates surrounding the future scarcity of fossil fuels, renewable energy and water up to 2075. This book offers a fresh way of tackling the current challenge of meeting global needs in an increasingly resource-stressed environment. By bringing together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this volume provides an innovative multi-disciplinary perspective that corrects previous scholarship which has discussed scientific and cultural issues separately. In doing so, it recognizes that this challenge is complex and cannot be addressed by a single discipline, but requires a concerted effort to think about its political and social, as well as technical and economic dimensions. This volume is essential for all students and scholars of environmental and economic history
Regulation and Enforcement of Competition Law in Tanzania’s Telecommunications Sector : Law, Institutional Design and Practice
Scarcity in the Modern World
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 forecasts and debates surrounding the future scarcity of fossil fuels, renewable energy and water up to 2075. This book offers a fresh way of tackling the current challenge of meeting global needs in an increasingly resource-stressed environment. By bringing together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, this volume provides an innovative multi-disciplinary perspective that corrects previous scholarship which has discussed scientific and cultural issues separately. In doing so, it recognizes that this challenge is complex and cannot be addressed by a single discipline, but requires a concerted effort to think about its political and social, as well as technical and economic dimensions. This volume is essential for all students and scholars of environmental and economic history