On the Edge of Scarcity

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.

• Foreword: Bottlenecks and the Ways Out, John K. RothAcknowledgmentsContributors Introduction: On the Edge of Scarcity, Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor WallimannPart One: Statement of the ProblemIntroduction Globalization and Security: The Prospects of the Underclass, John B. Cobb, Jr. Global Industrial Civilization: The Necessary Collapse, Chris H. LewisPart Two: Scarcity and ConflictIntroduction Biophysical Limits to the Human Expropriation of Nature, John M. GowdyOur Unsustainable Society . . . and the Alternative, Ted TrainerPopulation and Immigration: Sliding into Tribalism, Virginia, Deane AbernethyPopulation, Technology, and Development: The Vicious-Circle Principle and the Theory of Human Development, Craig Dilworth Scarcity and Its Social Impacts: Likely Political Responses, Kurt FinsterbuschFoundations and Context of Contemporary Conflict, Joseph A. TainterSustainable Development and Human Security: Can We Learn from Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and Haiti? Waltraud Queiser MoralesPart Three: Case Studies of Scarcity and Mass DeathIntroductionScarcity and Genocide, Roger W. Smith Globalization and Genocide: Inequality and Mass Death in Rwanda, David Norman SmithThe Feminization of Global Scarcity and Violence, Waltraud Queiser MoralesScarcity, Genocides, and the Postmodern Individual, Leon RappoportWorks Cited