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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
2002, Syracuse University Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 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 SkTAEME1NT OF THE PROBLEM
Introduction
1. Globalization and Security: The Prospects of the Underclass
John B. Cobb, Jr.
2. Global Industrial Civilization: The Necessary Collapse
Chris H. Lewis
Part Two SCARCITYAND CONFLICT
Introduction
3. Biophysical Limits to the Human Expropriation of Nature
John M. Gowdy
4. Our Unsustainable Societyand the Alternative
Ted Trainer
5. Population and Immigration: Sliding into Tribalism
Virginia Deane Abernethy
6. Population, Technology, and Development: The Vicious-Circle
Principle and the Theory of Human Development
Craig Dilworth
7. Scarcity and Its Social Impacts: Likely Political Responses
Kurt Finsterbusch
8. Foundations and Context of Contemporary Conflict
Joseph A. Tainter
9. Sustainable Development and Human Security: Can We Learn
from Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and Haiti?
Waltraud Queiser Morales
Part Three CASE STUDIES OF SCARCITYAND MASS DEATH
Introduction
10. Scarcity and Genocide
Roger W. Smith
11. Globalization and Genocide: Inequality and Mass Death
in Rwanda
David Norman Smith
12. The Feminization of Global Scarcity and Violence
Waltraud Queiser Morales
13. Scarcity, Genocides, and the Postmodern Individual
Leon Rappoport
Works Cited.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204).
Rev. ed. of: The coming age of scarcity. 1st ed. 1998.

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Syracuse, N.Y
Series
Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution
Other Titles
Scarcity, Coming age of scarcity.

Classifications

Library of Congress
HC85 .O63 2002, HC85.O63 2002, HB199 .C6352 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxi, 204 p. ;
Number of pages
204

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Open Library
OL3579821M
Internet Archive
onedgeofscarcity00mich
ISBN 10
0815629184, 0815629435
LCCN
2002265899
OCLC/WorldCat
49230803, 49894779
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1373472

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