Storage and Scarcity

This book deals with cases of water, food, energy and biodiversity storage as a response to a new era of scarcity. Examining multilevel storage policies, consumers' practices and local organisations, the book explores a variety of examples such as the need to stock agriculture produce, practices of food conservation, the role of artificial water basins in controlling floods and droughts and the development of batteries to compensate for the intermittence of renewable energy sources. This book offers an environmentalist perspective that uncovers hidden or absent activities of ultramodern societies that will be useful to students of environmental sociology, environmental studies and geography.