| On the Edge of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict Contributor(s): Dobkowski, Michael (Editor), Wallimann, Isidor (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815629435 ISBN-13: 9780815629436 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: Addresses one of the most pressing and significant issues that humanity has confronted to date -- the lack of life -sustaining resources. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory - Nature | Natural Resources |
| Dewey: 333.7 |
| LCCN: 2002265899 |
| Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.12" W x 8.96" (0.74 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modernization and Industrialization have presented the human race with many problems, inflicting deprivation, poverty, war and premature death on millions of people. Until recently, however, solutions were achievable. Drawn from the much-acclaimed Coming Age of Scarcity and adapted here for general classroom use, this work will be an ideal introduction to courses in population, environment and resources, genocide studies, and social conflict. As we enter the twenty-first century, several components converge, namely population, land for cultivation, energy resources, and environmental carrying capacity. Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann establish a realistic projection of the disastrous future that awaits humankind as surplus populations collide with dwindling resources. Scholars from a variety of disciplines investigate the problems and suggest ways to maximize individual and collective survival, discussing cause-and-effect scenarios concerning industrialization, biophysical limits, exponential population growth, and genocide. |