On the Edge of Scarcity - Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict

Addresses one of the most pressing and significant issues that humanity has confronted to date -- the lack of life -sustaining resources.

About the author

Michael N. Dobkowski is professor of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is author of The Tarnished Dream: The Basis of American Anti-Semitism, The Politics of lndifference: Documentary History of Holocaust Victims in America, and Jewish American Voluntary Organizations.

Isidor Wallimann is senior lecturer in sociology at the School of Social Work, Basel, Switzerland, and a lecturer at the University of Fribourg. He is author of Estrangrement: Marx's Conception of Human Nature and the Division
of Labor.

Summary

This work establishes a 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Dobkowski
• Assisted by: Michael Dobkowski (Editor), Michael N. Dobkowski (Editor), Isidor Wallimann (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9780815629436
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-2943-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 326 g
• Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and; Syracuse Studies on Peace and; Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration