Was there an energy crisis in Great Britain in the 17th century?

Thomas, Brinley

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“…The absolute quantity of firewood used was fairly constant from about 1560 until 1800. Though timber was increasingly imported to Britain, especially in the 19 th Century (Iriarte-Goñi and Ayuda, 2012), there does not seem to have been significant international trade in firewood (Thomas, 1986;Warde, 2007). Coal use increased 700-fold over the period.…”

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Directed Technical Change and the British Industrial Revolution

Stern¹,

Pezzey²,

2021

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Econom

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This Working Paper series provides a vehicle for preliminary circulation of research results in the fields of economic development and international trade. The series is intended to stimulate discussion and critical comment. Staff and visitors in any part of the Australian National University are encouraged to contribute. To facilitate prompt distribution, papers are screened, but not formally refereed.Copies are available at https://acde.crawford.anu.edu.au/acde-research/working-paperstrade-and-development.

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Directed Technical Change and the British Industrial Revolution

Stern¹,

Pezzey²,

2021

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Econom

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“…Source: Beveridge (1939), Hatcher (1993) of coal was an 'induced innovation' caused by shortages of wood has been widely debated among historians (Flinn 1959, 1978, Hammersley 1973, Thomas 1986, Hatcher 1993, Allen 2003. For our purposes, it is not essential to answer the question of why a transition to coal occurred, but only what its economic consequences were.…”

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Energy and natural resource dependency in Europe, 1600–1900

Warde¹

2020

History, Historians and Development Policy

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“…1 There has been a controversy suggesting that coal was adopted in circumstances of a crisis of exhaustion of timber supplies (Nef, 1932), but the current view is that coal-use developed because in England in particular it was a cheaper and more efficient energy resource for many purposes, initially indeed for domestic heating (Thomas, 1986; Allen, 2009). …”

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The Food-Energy-Climate Change Trilemma: Toward a Socio-Economic Analysis

Harvey

2014

Theory, Culture & Society

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The food-energy-climate change trilemma refers to the stark alternatives presented by the need to feed a world population growing to nine billion, the attendant risks of land conversion and use for global climate change, and the way these are interconnected with the energy crisis arising from the depletion of oil. Theorizing the interactions between political economies and their related natural environments, in terms of both finitudes of resources and generation of greenhouse gases, presents a major challenge to social sciences. Approaches from classical political economy, transition theory, economic geography, and political ecology, are reviewed before elaborating the neo-Polanyian approach adopted here. The case of Brazil, analysed with an `instituted economic process’ framework, demonstrates how the trilemma is a spatial and historical socio-economic phenomenon, varying significantly in its dynamics in different environmental and resource contexts. The paper concludes by highlighting challenges to developing a social scientific theory in this field.

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Was there an energy crisis in Great Britain in the 17th century?

Cited by 73 publications

References 13 publications

Directed Technical Change and the British Industrial Revolution

Directed Technical Change and the British Industrial Revolution

Energy and natural resource dependency in Europe, 1600–1900

The Food-Energy-Climate Change Trilemma: Toward a Socio-Economic Analysis

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