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oapen-20.500.12657-633642024-03-28T08:18:56Z The Return of Malthus Linnér, Björn-Ola Business & Economics Real Estate Science Environmental Science Technology & Engineering Environmental thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KF Finance and accounting::KFF Finance and the finance industry::KFFR Property and real estate thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled ‘neo-Malthusians’ for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the manner of the nineteenth-century father of scarcity economics. The book analyses the role of science and technology in securing food supply, the transmutation of older ideas about preserving nature into a new conservation ideology based on sustainable use, and the preoccupation of the industrialised nations with forestalling communism and controlling power relations. First published by The White Horse Press in 2003. Even more relevant today, this revised edition charts perceptions of and prescriptions for crises of population growth and resource shortage, which have had profound influence on agricultural, population and security policies from the Second World War to the present. 2023-06-07T05:45:26Z 2023-06-07T05:45:26Z 2023 book 9781912186747 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63364 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf The White Horse Press The White Horse Press 10.3197/63811987103618.book 10.3197/63811987103618.book c2fc20c8-9286-446f-8610-d8910244672b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781912186747 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) The White Horse Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled ‘neo-Malthusians’ for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the manner of the nineteenth-century father of scarcity economics. The book analyses the role of science and technology in securing food supply, the transmutation of older ideas about preserving nature into a new conservation ideology based on sustainable use, and the preoccupation of the industrialised nations with forestalling communism and controlling power relations. First published by The White Horse Press in 2003. Even more relevant today, this revised edition charts perceptions of and prescriptions for crises of population growth and resource shortage, which have had profound influence on agricultural, population and security policies from the Second World War to the present.
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