Current views on resource availability are examined, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply.
Originally published in 1979
Autorentext
V. Kerry Smith
Zusammenfassung
Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based crime control in England as a means of examining the prospects for this approach, its evolving relationship with criminal justice and social policies, and to assess the lessons internationally that can be drawn from this in the theory, research methods, politics and practice of crime control.At the same time the book advances an important new conceptual framework for understanding community-based crime control, focusing on an understanding of the diversity of control and preventative strategies, the locally particular conditions in which they are conducted, and the degree of choices open to local political actors involved in their conduct. Understanding diversity in this way is central to drawing lessons about the transferability of crime control theory and practice from one social context to another, avoiding the naAve emulation of practices in different contexts.
Inhalt
1: The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity: An Interpretative Introduction; 2: A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources; 3: Entropy, Growth, and the Political Economy of Scarcity; 4: Comments on the Papers by Daly and Stiglitz; 5: Fundamental Concepts for the Analysis of Resource Availability; 6: The Age of Substitutability: A Scientific Appraisal of Natural Resource Adequacy; 7: Comments on the Papers by Brobst and Goeller; 8: Scarcity and Growth Revisited; 9: The Adequacy of Measures for Signaling The Scarcity of Natural Resources; 10: Measures of Natural Resource Scarcity; 11: Summary and Research Issues