First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Foreword Steve Rayner Introduction Lyla Mehta Part 1: Why Does Scarcity Matter? 1. The Scare, Naturalization and Politicization of Scarcity Lyla Mehta 2. Everybody's Got the Fever: Scarcity and US National Energy Policy Nicholas Xenos 3. The Ghosts of Malthus: Narratives and Mobilizations of Scarcity in the US Political Context Betsy Hartmann Part 2: Economics and Scarcity 4. Economics and Scarcity: With Amartya Sen as Point of Departure? Ben Fine 5. Deconstructing Economic Interpretations of Sustainable Development: Limits, Scarcity and Abundance Fred Luks 6. Water Can and Ought to Run Freely: Reflections on the Notion of 'Scarcity' in Economics Sajay Samuel and Jean Robert 7. A Bit of the Other: Why Scarcity Isn't All It's Cracked up to Be Michael Thompson Part 3: Resource Scarcity, Institutional Arrangements and Policy Responses: Food, Agriculture, Water and Energy 8. 'Scarcity' as Political Strategy: Reflections on Three Hanging Children Nicholas Hildyard 9. Seeing Scarcity: Understanding Soil Fertility in Africa Ian Scoones 10. Chronic Hunger: A Problem of Scarcity or Inequity? Erik Millstone 11. A Share Response to Water Scarcity: Moving beyond the Volumetric Bruce Lankford 12. Advocacy of Water Scarcity: Leakages in the Argument Jasveen Jairath 13. The Construction and Destruction of Scarcity in Development: Water and Power Experiences in Nepal Dipak Gyawali and Ajaya Dixit 14. Afterword: Looking beyond Scarcity? Lyla Mehta