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Soziale Ungleichheit im indischen Bildungssystem

Author : Henrik Nohr
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668887861
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Soziale Ungleichheit im indischen Bildungssystem written by Henrik Nohr and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Soziale Ungleichheit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die soziale Ungleichheit im indischen Bildungssystem. Die Republik Indien stellt mit 1,1 Milliarden Einwohnern 15% der Weltbevölkerung dar. Mit einem durchschnittlichen Alter von 5 Jahren ist sie nicht nur eine der jüngsten, sondern wegen des BIP-Wachstums von 7,1% ist es auch die siebtgrößte Volkswirtschaft. Bildung erhält durch diese Einsicht einen nennenswerten ökonomischen Wert, welcher in der Entstehungsgeschichte von Nationen eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Indien ist mit 1,4 Millionen staatlich anerkannten Schulen, 33 000 Colleges und 659 Universitäten eines der größten Bildungssysteme weltweit. Bisher verzeichnete der Bildungsfortschritt einen stetigen Erfolg, der sich in den deutlich steigenden Alphabetisierungsraten zeigt. Zudem entwickelte sich Indien zu einem führenden Akteur in der internationalen Informationstechnologie. Trotz dieser positiven ökonomischen Entwicklungen bestehen diverse strukturelle Ungleichheiten im System. Dazu zählen vor allem soziale und geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten. Im Folgenden wird ein Überblick über die gegenwärtige Situation der Schulbildung in Indien erläutert. Um den Kontext des Bildungssystems zu verstehen, soll die Historie des Landes dargestellt werden. Des Weiteren gilt es in dieser Arbeit historische und gegenwärtige Ungleichheiten im indischen Bildungssystem herauszuarbeiten. Es ist unbestreitbar, dass Indien in vielen Bereichen des Bildungssystems gute Fortschritte erzielt, wenngleich das System noch einige Defizite aufweist. Mit einer Bevölkerung, die zu den jüngsten der Welt zählt, und einem anhaltenden Wirtschaftswachstum hat Indien großes Potenzial, eine der größten Marktwirtschaften der Welt zu werden. Will Indien jedoch sein Potenzial nutzen, muss es primär auf die Verbesserung des Bildungssystems setzen. Es gilt bei den Jüngsten der Gesellschaft anzufangen, denn eine informierte, ausgebildete und wissende Bevölkerung bedeutet eine handelnde Gesellschaft.

Soziale Ungleichheit in Indien

Author : Gernot Saalmann
Publisher : Springer-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3658176245
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Soziale Ungleichheit in Indien written by Gernot Saalmann and published by Springer-Verlag. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gernot Saalmann kritisiert in diesem essential, dass die erhebliche soziale Ungleichheit in Indien meist entweder mit dem Begriff der Kaste oder dem der Klasse analysiert wird. Seines Erachtens könnte man jedoch zugespitzt formulieren, es gebe eigentlich gar keine Kasten, sondern eine Vielzahl von Phänomenen mit je anderen regionalen Namen. Genauso könnte man den auf das Ökonomische fixierten marxistischen Klassenbegriff hinterfragen. Pierre Bourdieu bietet einen anders gefassten Klassenbegriff an, mit dem sich die Verhältnisse in Indien sowohl in der Vergangenheit als auch der Gegenwart beschreiben lassen.

Bildung in Indien. Erfolge der indischen Bildungspolitik

Author : Igor Spitz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668365520
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Bildung in Indien. Erfolge der indischen Bildungspolitik written by Igor Spitz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Südasien, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Problematik des Zugangs zu Bildung für die unterschiedlichen Bevölkerungsschichten Indiens. Seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist der Zugang zu Bildung als ein soziales Grundrecht definiert und die Bildungspolitik ist eine wichtige Säule des Sozialstaates geworden. Darüber hinaus ist die Bildungspolitik zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der Wirtschaftspolitik avanciert. In Bezug zu Indien soll die Ausbildung einer breiteren Bevölkerungsschicht Teil des wirtschaftlichen Wachstumsprozesses werden. Das Bildungsniveau Indiens bekommt zunehmend auch für die deutsche Wirtschaft größere Bedeutung. Dadurch, dass deutsche Unternehmen stetig in Indien investieren sind derzeit mehr als 400.000 Inder in deutschen Firmen angestellt. Es ist bewiesen, dass eine gut ausgebildete Bevölkerung unbedingt erforderlich ist für einen wirtschaftlichen Wachstumsprozess. Zu diesem Thema haben die Vereinten Nationen das Milleniumsziel „Education for all“ formuliert, welches insgesamt sieben Unterziele umfasst. Untersucht werden dabei auch die strukturellen und kulturellen Besonderheiten des Subkontinents und die Reformbestrebungen der indischen Regierung. Anhand von ausgewählten Kennzahlen bewertet diese Arbeit die Entwicklung von drei Unterzielen im Zusammenhang mit den Bildungszielen der indischen Regierung. Das Resultat dieser Arbeit soll aussagen, ob in der institutionellen Bildung Indiens diese drei Unterziele bereits erreicht worden sind.

Adult Learning and Education

Author : Kjell Rubenson
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123814898
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Adult Learning and Education written by Kjell Rubenson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 46 articles from the diverse and still emerging field of adult education.

Island Rivers

Author : John R. Wagner
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760462179
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Island Rivers written by John R. Wagner and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?

Encountering Poverty

Author : Ananya Roy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520962737
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Poverty written by Ananya Roy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin persistent impoverishment and using tools of critical analysis and pedagogy, the authors explore the opportunities for and limits of poverty action in the current moment. Encountering Poverty invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today.

Territories of Poverty

Author : Ananya Roy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820348430
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Territories of Poverty written by Ananya Roy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.

City Requiem, Calcutta

Author : Ananya Roy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816639328
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book City Requiem, Calcutta written by Ananya Roy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty. City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories.

Technology’s Refuge

Author : Linda Leung
Publisher : UTS ePRESS
ISBN 13 : 1863654240
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Technology’s Refuge written by Linda Leung and published by UTS ePRESS. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the use of information communication technologies by refugees during flight, displacement and in settlement, this book examines the impact of Australia’s official policy of mandatory detention on how asylum seekers and refugees maintain links to diasporas and networks of support. Given the restricted contact with the world outside of the immigration detention centre, the book juxtaposes forms and processes of technology-mediated communication between institutionalised detention, with those of displacement and settlement. It finds that while there are obstacles to communication in situations of conflict and dislocation, asylum seekers and refugees are able to ‘make do’ with the technology options available to them in ways which were less constrained than in detention settings. The book also outlines how communication practices during the settlement process focus on learning new technologies, and repairing the disconnections with family members resulting from separation and detention.

Fertility of Immigrants

Author : Nadja Milewski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642037054
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Fertility of Immigrants written by Nadja Milewski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, “Fertility of Immigrants: A Two-Generational Approach in Germany” by Dr. Nadja Milewski, is the sixth book of a series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. Dr. Milewski is now working for the University of Rostock, but at the time she wrote the book, she was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. The book is a slightly-revised version of her doctoral dissertation (“Fertility of Immigrants and Their Descendants in West Germany: An Event History Approach”), which she completed at the Max Planck Institute and submitted to the University of Rostock. She was awarded highest honors, summa cum laude, for her dissertation. As Professor Jan Hoem wrote in his review of Dr. Milewski’s dissertation, the research focuses on the patterns and levels of childbearing among immigrant women. Given Germany’s varied immigration experience with refugees, asylum seekers, guest workers, and foreign-born persons of German ancestry, Dr. Milewski’s topic is of particular interest, especially with regard to differences in the patterns and levels of childbearing among various kinds of immigrants to Germany vs. native-born Germans. Numerous empirical and theoretical studies of childbearing among immigrants to various countries have been published and Dr. Milewski carefully reviews them. While earlier studies have tended to be rather fragmentary, particularly for European populations, Dr. Milewski’s research provides a comp- hensive picture of the recent female fertility of post-war migrants and their desc- dants in West Germany, with an emphasis on migrants who came to Germany to work.

Intergenerational consequences of migration

Author : Ayse Guveli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137501421
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Intergenerational consequences of migration written by Ayse Guveli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the impact of migration on the lives of multiple generations of 2000 Turkish families. Exploring education, marriage, fertility, friends, attitudes and religiosity, it reveals transformations and continuities in the lives of migrants and their families in Europe when compared to their non-migrant counterparts in Turkey.

Research Handbook of Expatriates

Author : Yvonne McNulty
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784718181
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook of Expatriates written by Yvonne McNulty and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In the Research Handbook of Expatriates, Yvonne McNulty and Jan Selmer have created a seminal work that should be on the bookshelf of all social scientists who work in the field of expatriation. More senior scholars will appreciate the ''deep dive'' each chapter takes into the literature, each one acting as a reservoir they can draw from to powerfully inform their future research efforts. Doctoral students and newly minted PhDs will find this book to be especially valuable - the final chapter of the book alone provides inestimable career and ''how-to-publish'' guidance for them in the field of expatriation. The coverage of the history, construct, milieu, research methodologies, and issues is the best I have come across in a single volume in over 30 years of working in the field. In short, this is a monumental contribution to the study of expatriates and global mobility.' - Mark E. Mendenhall, University of Tennessee 'McNulty and Selmer's edited volume does a wonderful job of consolidating and integrating everything we know about expatriates and their different types. This long-overdue Handbook, featuring chapters by top researchers, lays a trail for scholars to further advance the study of expatriates.' - Joyce Osland, San Jose State University 'McNulty and Selmer's edited book of readings on virtually all aspects of expatriates deserves a prominent place in the library of researchers and practitioners interested in this subject. The Handbook provides a historical overview as well as the latest trends in expatriate studies and concludes with useful guidelines on how to conduct as well as improve the quality of research in this field.' - Rosalie L. Tung, Simon Fraser University, Canada Constituting a comprehensive and carefully designed collection of contributions, the Research Handbook of Expatriatesprovides a nuanced and up-to-date discussion of expatriates. Theoretically broad and groundbreaking, it offers important and contemporary insights into emerging areas of research warranting future consideration. Drawing upon a range of perspectives from the field?s most distinguished academics, contributions review the history of the literature in relation to expatriates, from the development of the expatriate construct through to the current state of research on business expatriates. Subsequent chapters progress into detailed examinations of the various types of business expatriates including LGBT, self-initiated expatriates, female assignees, inpatriates, international business travellers and commuters, and millennials. Other themes include expatriate performance, adjustment, expatriates to and from developing countries, global talent management, and expatriates? safety and security. The Research Handbook also covers expatriates in diverse communities such as education, military, missionary, sports and ?Aidland?, and provides additional commentaries relating to methodological issues, research with practitioners, case studies, biculturals and ATCKs, and global families. The Research Handbook concludes with publishing advice for PhD and early career researchers. Stimulating insightful new areas of study, this collection is a must read for academics and scholars in the field of expatriate research, international management, global human resource management and business administration. It also offers a wealth of guidance for executives and recruiters along with expatriates and professionals who may expatriate. Contributors: M. Andresen, C. Brewster, L. Care, J.-L. Cerdin, L. Clarke, D.G. Collings, M. Collins, A. Corbin, M. Crowley-Henry, M. Dickmann, H. Dolles, R. Donohue, C. Doss, B. Egilsson, A. Fee, K.L. Fisher, K.J. Hanek, A. Haslberger, T. Hippler, K. Hutchings, M. Isichei, J. Lauring, L. Mäkelä, R. McPhail, S. Michailova, M. Moeller, B. Oberholster

Rationality in the Social Sciences

Author : Helmut Staubmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331962377X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Rationality in the Social Sciences written by Helmut Staubmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents for the first time a collection of historically important papers written on the concept of rationality in the social sciences. In 1939-40, the famed Austrian economist Joseph A. Schumpeter and the famous sociologist Talcott Parsons convened a faculty seminar at Harvard University on the topic of rationality. The first part includes their essays as well as papers by the Austrian phenomenologist Alfred Schütz, the sociologist Wilbert Moore, and the economist Rainer Schickele. Several younger economists and sociologists with bright futures also participated, including Alex Gerschenkron, John Dunlop, Paul M. Sweezy, and Wassily W. Leontief, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize for developing input-output analysis. The second part presents essays and commentaries written by today’s internationally noted social scientists and addressing the topic of rationality in social action from a broad range of perspectives. The book’s third and final part shares the recently discovered correspondence between the seminar principals regarding the original but failed plan to publish its proceedings. It also includes letters, not previously published, between Richard Grathoff, Walter M. Sprondel and Talcott Parsons on the rationality seminar and the exchanges between Parsons and Schütz.

Risk

Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135149290X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Risk written by Niklas Luhmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker.

Values of American Society

Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643907788
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Values of American Society written by Talcott Parsons and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material in Values of American Society remains the principal resource for understanding Parsons' conception of value systems. His treatment of value systems has been much debated, although poorly understood, in considerable part because Parsons never published his full conception, developed only in these manuscripts. They continue to hold interest for social scientists, both for their carefully developed analytical scheme and for the resulting discussion of American culture and society. (Series: Studies in the Theory of Action, Vol. 3) [Subject: Sociology, American Studies]Ã?Â?Ã?Â?

Poverty Capital

Author : Ananya Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415876729
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Poverty Capital written by Ananya Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book participates in a set of fierce debates about development âe" from the role of markets to the secrets of successful pro-poor institutions. Based on many years of research in Washington D.C., Bangladesh, and the Middle East, Poverty Capital also grows out of the author's undergraduate teaching to thousands of students on the subject of global poverty and inequality.

On the Edge of Scarcity

Author : Michael N. Dobkowski
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629436
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book On the Edge of Scarcity written by Michael N. Dobkowski and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernization and Industrialization have presented the human race with many problems, inflicting deprivation, poverty, war and premature death on millions of people. Until recently, however, solutions were achievable. Drawn from the much-acclaimed Coming Age of Scarcity and adapted here for general classroom use, this work will be an ideal introduction to courses in population, environment and resources, genocide studies, and social conflict. As we enter the twenty-first century, several components converge, namely population, land for cultivation, energy resources, and environmental carrying capacity. Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann establish a realistic projection of the disastrous future that awaits humankind as surplus populations collide with dwindling resources. Scholars from a variety of disciplines investigate the problems and suggest ways to maximize individual and collective survival, discussing cause-and-effect scenarios concerning industrialization, biophysical limits, exponential population growth, and genocide.