Environment, Scarcity, and Violence |
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| Author:
| Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-08979-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2001 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Argues that the environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence. This book develops a model of the sources of environmental scarcity. It shows that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources.
Argues that the environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence. This book develops a model of the sources of environmental scarcity. It shows that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources.