On the edge of scarcity : environment, resources, population, sustainability, and conflict

Author(s)

• Dobkowski, Michael N.
• Wallimann, Isidor

Bibliographic Information

On the edge of scarcity : environment, resources, population, sustainability, and conflict

edited by Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann ; with a foreword by John K. Roth

（Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution）

Syracuse University Press, 2002

• : cl
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 195-204

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cl ISBN 9780815629184

Description

These essays address one of the most pressing and significant issues that humanity has confronted to date - the lack of life-sustaining resources. 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.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780815629436

Description

These essays address one of the most pressing and significant issues that humanity has confronted to date - the lack of life-sustaining resources. 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Bottlenecks and the Ways Out, John K. Roth Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: On the Edge of Scarcity, Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann Part One: Statement of the Problem Introduction Globalization and Security: The Prospects of the Underclass, John B. Cobb, Jr. Global Industrial Civilization: The Necessary Collapse, Chris H. Lewis Part Two: Scarcity and Conflict Introduction Biophysical Limits to the Human Expropriation of Nature, John M. Gowdy Our Unsustainable Society . . . and the Alternative, Ted Trainer Population and Immigration: Sliding into Tribalism, Virginia, Deane Abernethy Population, Technology, and Development: The Vicious-Circle Principle and the Theory of Human Development, Craig Dilworth Scarcity and Its Social Impacts: Likely Political Responses, Kurt Finsterbusch Foundations and Context of Contemporary Conflict, Joseph A. Tainter Sustainable Development and Human Security: Can We Learn from Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and Haiti? Waltraud Queiser Morales Part Three: Case Studies of Scarcity and Mass Death Introduction Scarcity and Genocide, Roger W. Smith Globalization and Genocide: Inequality and Mass Death in Rwanda, David Norman Smith The Feminization of Global Scarcity and Violence, Waltraud Queiser Morales Scarcity, Genocides, and the Postmodern Individual, Leon Rappoport Works Cited

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Details

• NCID: BA56398583
• ISBN:
  • 0815629184
  • 0815629435
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Syracuse, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 204 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10243432