Environment, Scarcity, and Violence

by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon

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Pub. Date: 2010-07-01

Publisher(s): Princeton University Press

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List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 3
Aim and Structure of the Book	p. 6
Key Research Concepts, Methods, and Goals	p. 8
Overview	p. 12
The Critical Role of Environmental Resources	p. 13
Sources of Environmental Scarcity	p. 14
The Importance of Context	p. 16
Pivotal Countries	p. 18
Ingenuity and Adaptation	p. 25
Two Centuries of Debate	p. 28
Neo-Malthusians versus Economic Optimists	p. 29
The Distributionist Alternative	p. 35
Thresholds, Interdependence, and Interactivity	p. 37
Social Friction and Adaptive Failure	p. 42
Appendix: How to Read a Systems Diagram	p. 45
Environmental Scarcity	p. 47
Three Sources of Scarcity	p. 47
Factors Producing Scarcity	p. 49
The Physical Trends of Global Change	p. 52
Interactions and Social Effects	p. 73
Interactions	p. 73
Social Effects	p. 80
Appendix: The Causal Role of Environmental Scarcity	p. 104
Ingenuity and Adaptation	p. 107
The Nature and Role of Ingenuity	p. 109
Some Factors Increasing the Requirement for Ingenuity	p. 112
Some Factors Limiting the Supply of Ingenuity	p. 114
Conclusions	p. 125
Appendix: Can Poor Countries Attain Endogenous Growth?	p. 127
Violence	p. 133
Types of Violent Conflict	p. 136
Four Further Cases	p. 148
Urban Growth and Violence	p. 155
Implications for International Security	p. 166
Appendix: Hypothesis Testing and Case Selection	p. 169
Conclusions	p. 177
Notes	p. 183
General Readings on Environmental Security	p. 241
Index	p. 247
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