The Limits to Scarcity : Contesting the Politics of Allocation

By L. Mehta. 2010

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Subfields: Water Science and Technology

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1. I. Scoones
2. K. Mcafee
3. Angelo Basile
4. Fausto Gallucci
5. L. Mehta
6. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
7. J. Franco

Citations in the corpus

• Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “The 'economic scarcity' arguments say nothing about the socio-political and constructed nature of scarcity (cf. Mehta, 2010) and how FDI investments can create new scarcities.”
• Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania (2020, background): “Indeed, as Mehta (2010) observes, too simplistic cause and effect explanations contributes in diverting attention from more systemic causes that may compromize the interests of the relatively more powerful.”
• Green economy and carbon markets for conservation and development: a critical view (2016, background): “Neoclassical economics is essentially about the administration of scarcity: Markets are the means to manage human wants and desires, which are assumed to be unlimited, for goods and resources which are assumed to be in finite supply (Luks 2010; Mehta 2010).”
• Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes (2020, background): “Unfortunately, there is a growing concern on water shortage that is recognized widely in the world as a critical alarm (Jairath, 2010; McInerney, 2009), where the deteriorating quality and growing demand for clean water sources have created a significant challenge around the world (McInerney, 2009;…”
• Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (2013, background): “Thus, the rhetoric behind contemporary investment is dominated by scarcity not surplus (cf. Mehta, 2010; for the scarcity discourse, see Brown, 2011; Collier, 2007).”
• The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, background): “A renewed (neo-) Malthusian narrative relating populations to resources has thus evolved in recent years (49), with narratives of scarcity at the core (50).”