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Environment, scarcity, and violence /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, 2001.
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520 |a 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. 
505 0 |a Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview; 3. Two Centuries of Debate; 4. Environmental Scarcity; 5. Interactions and Social Effects; 6. Ingenuity and Adaptation; 7. Violence; 8. Conclusions; Notes; General Readings on Environmental Security; Index. 
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