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Serie delle Risorse della Polity Serie

Questa serie approfondisce il pressante problema della diminuzione delle risorse globali e dei conflitti geopolitici che derivano dalla scarsità. Esperti di primo piano analizzano le intense lotte per il controllo delle materie prime vitali, dal petrolio all'acqua ai minerali rari. I libri offrono analisi acute delle complesse dinamiche di potere che plasmano il nostro futuro e le loro implicazioni per la stabilità globale. È una lettura essenziale per chiunque sia interessato alle relazioni internazionali e alla sostenibilità.

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    Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth.

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  • Fish

    Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfished or fished to their very limit. Governments have tried to tackle the problem with limited success. Many of their actions have been counterproductive or ineffective.

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  • Timber

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    Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It forms our homes and furniture, our disposable diapers and newspapers, and boxes our cereal and new appliances. The way we produce and consume timber, however, is changing. With international timber companies and big box discount retailers increasingly controlling through global commodity chains where and how much timber is traded, the world's remaining old-growth forests, particularly in the developing world, are under threat of disappearing - all for the price of a consumer bargain. --

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  • Land

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    Land is one of the world s most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way.

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