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…mehr
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.
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.
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* 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
* 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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