On the edge of scarcity
Subtitle: environment, resources, population, sustainability, and conflict
By: edited by Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann ; with a foreword by John K. Roth.
Contributors: Dobkowski, Michael N.; Wallimann, Isidor, 1944-
Edition: [2nd ed.]
Series: Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Natural resources; Scarcity; Economic development; Sustainable development; Population -- Economic aspects; Pollution -- Economic aspects; Human ecology; Social conflict; Economic forecasting
Other titles: Scarcity; Coming age of scarcity.
Description: Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann establish a disturbing but realistic scenario of the disastrous future that awaits humankind as surplus populations collide with dwindling resources. Authors consider a number of cause-and-effect situations on industrialization, biophysical limits, exponential population growth, and genocide, to name a few. This volume is a critical contribution to the field and will serve as an ideal introduction to courses in the environment, population, resources, genocide, and social conflict.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204).
Rev. ed. of: The coming age of scarcity. 1st ed. 1998.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword: Bottlenecks and the Ways Out; title: John K. Roth; title: Acknowledgments; title: Contributors; title: Introduction: On the Edge of Scarcity; title: Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann; title: Part One SkTAEME1NT OF THE PROBLEM; title: Introduction; title: 1. Globalization and Security: The Prospects of the Underclass; title: John B. Cobb, Jr.; title: 2. Global Industrial Civilization: The Necessary Collapse; title: Chris H. Lewis; title: Part Two SCARCITYAND CONFLICT; title: Introduction; title: 3. Biophysical Limits to the Human Expropriation of Nature; title: John M. Gowdy; title: 4. Our Unsustainable Societyand the Alternative; title: Ted Trainer; title: 5. Population and Immigration: Sliding into Tribalism; title: Virginia Deane Abernethy; title: 6. Population, Technology, and Development: The Vicious-Circle; title: Principle and the Theory of Human Development; title: Craig Dilworth; title: 7. Scarcity and Its Social Impacts: Likely Political Responses; title: Kurt Finsterbusch; title: 8. Foundations and Context of Contemporary Conflict; title: Joseph A. Tainter; title: 9. Sustainable Development and Human Security: Can We Learn; title: from Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and Haiti?; title: Waltraud Queiser Morales; title: Part Three CASE STUDIES OF SCARCITYAND MASS DEATH; title: Introduction; title: 10. Scarcity and Genocide; title: Roger W. Smith; title: 11. Globalization and Genocide: Inequality and Mass Death; title: in Rwanda; title: David Norman Smith; title: 12. The Feminization of Global Scarcity and Violence; title: Waltraud Queiser Morales; title: 13. Scarcity, Genocides, and the Postmodern Individual; title: Leon Rappoport; title: Works Cited.