On the edge of scarcity : environment, resources, population, sustainability, and conflict
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On the edge of scarcity : environment, resources, population, sustainability, and conflict
(Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution)
Syracuse University Press, 2002
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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.
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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
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