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Storage and Scarcity: New practices for food, energy and water book cover

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Storage and Scarcity New practices for food, energy and water

By Giorgio Osti Copyright 2016
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1: Accumulation vs networking: The terms of the storage issue



1.1 Storage, an eclipsed issue



1.2 Between storage and security



1.3 Why storage is once again important



1.4 Social analysis of storage



2: The modularisation of food processing and consumption



2.1 Food conservation, a broad and ambivalent matter



2.2 Food security practices



2.3 Healthy food: storage as preservation



2.4 Organisations no food waste



2.5 Rituals of food storage



2.6 Rationing and rationalising Chapter 3 – Water storage: a multidimensional task



3.1 The long march toward water channelling



3.2 River banks, detention basins and floodable areas



3.3 The art of water saving and harvesting 3.4 The big task of small farm ponds



3.5 In between network and storage



4: Energy storage



4.1 The issue



4.2 The legal, technological and social frames



4.3 The Tartar Steppe of energy storage



4.4 Power storage systems embedded in national policies



4.5 Thermal energy. The Cinderella of storage



4.6 Conclusions



5: Long-term life storage









5.1 Forms of biodiversity storage: natural parks, botanical gardens, seed banks











5.2 Beyond land sparing and land sharing











5.3 The mutual exchanges of biodiversity and storage











5.4 Mosaics of biodiversity











6: Multi-storey: the fortune of the grasshoppers and the ants

Biography

Giorgio Osti is a rural and environmental sociologist at the University of Trieste, Italy.

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