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

ISBN-13: 9780815629436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 204 str.

Michael N. Dobkowski; Isidor Wallimann; John K. Roth

Opis

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.