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This study shows how efforts to curb the wanton slaughter of whales has impacted most severely on the Inuit subsistence hunters, whilst completely failing to stop the industrialized slaughter of whales "for research".

This text reflects the post-Cold War world of the 1990s by concentrating on current rather than historical controversies. Chapters are also devoted to ethnic identity and its relation to language, nationalism, discrimination and religious beliefs.

This volume illustrates the racial and ethnic variance in the United States and probes the issues that affect the various ethnic and racial groups, such as immigration and migration, health, crime and language.

Ecological Futures, the final book in Sing C. Chew's trilogy on world ecological degradation, proposes that our own era exhibits ecological conditions similar to those of the past. The climate changes, environmental crises, mass population migrations, and socioeconomic disorganization we find in our globalized world also characterized the Late Bronze Age and the period following the fall of the Roman Empire. Given such historical parallels, can history tell us what to expect? Analyzing past trends, Chew identifies a set of long-term structural changes common to previous systemic crises and suggests possible outcomes. These 'possible futures' include the collapse of systems, territories, informational technologies, and communities in an era of scarce resources, political reorganization, and globalization.