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Environment,scarcity,and violence
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Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
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Developing countries
/ Environmental aspects
/ Environmental conditions
/ Environmental degradation
/ International Relations
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE
/ Renewable natural resources
/ Scarcity
/ Social aspects
/ Social conflict
/ Violence
2001,2010,1999
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Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
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Developing countries
/ Environmental aspects
/ Environmental conditions
/ Environmental degradation
/ International Relations
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE
/ Renewable natural resources
/ Scarcity
/ Social aspects
/ Social conflict
/ Violence
2001,2010,1999
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/ Scarcity
/ Social aspects
/ Social conflict
/ Violence
2001,2010,1999
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2001,2010,1999
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The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book that these environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences—contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence, especially in the developing world. Homer-Dixon synthesizes work from a wide range of international research projects to develop a detailed model of the sources of environmental scarcity. He refers to water shortages in China, population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, and land distribution in Mexico, for example, to show that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources, the increased demand for these resources, and/or their unequal distribution. He shows that these scarcities can lead to deepened poverty, large-scale migrations, sharpened social cleavages, and weakened institutions. And he describes the kinds of violence that can result from these social effects, arguing that conflicts in Chiapas, Mexico and ongoing turmoil in many African and Asian countries, for instance, are already partly a consequence of scarcity.
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Princeton University Press
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9780691089799, 0691089795, 9781400822997, 1400822998, 1400803756, 9781400803750
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