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

by Michael N. Dobkowski (Editor), Isidor Wallimann

Seeing the end of modern industrialization and urbanization as the only alternative to destroying the environment humans depend on, but also that such an ending will itself threaten the lives and safety of many millions of people, social scientists and humanists seek a path between the two dangers. No index is provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

296 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2002

Reviews

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The essays in this books kind of bounce all over the place from shallow xenophobic analyses of immigration to brilliant explorations as to how the spread of global capitalism has resulted in an uptick in the frequency and brutality of genocides in recent decades.