On the Edge of Scarcity
Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. February 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-8156-2943-6 (ISBN)
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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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8156-2943-6 (9780815629436)
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Persons
Michael N. Dobkowski is professor of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Isidor Walliman is lecturer in sociology at the School of Social Work in Basel and the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. They coauthored The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, also published by Syracuse University Press.
Content
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
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