The coming age of scarcity : preventing mass death and genocide in the twenty-first century / edited by Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann ; with a foreword by John K. Roth.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-325) and index.

The coming age of scarcity : an introduction / Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann -- The Threat to the underclass / John B. Cobb, Jr. --The paradox of global development and the necessary collapse of modern industrial civilization / Chris H. Lewis -- Biophysical limits to industrialization : prospects for the twenty-first century / John M. Gowdy -- Our unsustainable society : basic causes, interconnections, and solutions / Ted Trainer -- Defining the new American community : a slide to tribalism? / Virginia Abernethy -- The vicious circle principle : a contribution to the theory of population and development / Craig Dilworth -- The social impact of scarcity : the political responses of institutionally developed societies / Kurt Finsterbusch -- Competition, expansion, and reaction : the foundations of contemporary conflict / Joseph A. Tainter -- Scarcity and genocide / Roger W. Smith -- Postcolonial genocide : scarcity, ethnicity, and mass death in Rwanda / David Norman Smith -- Intrastate conflict and sustainable development : lessons from Bosnia, Somalia, and Haiti / Waltraud Queiser Morales -- Scarcity, genocide, and the postmodern individual / Leon Rappoport -- Critical reflections on the doomsday, apocalyptic vision / Craig A. Rimmerman.