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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Violence > Environmental aspects > Developing countries.
Social conflict > Developing countries.
Environmental degradation > Social aspects > Developing countries.
Renewable natural resources > Developing countries.
Scarcity > Social aspects.
Violence > Aspect de l'environnement > Pays en voie de développement.
Conflits sociaux > Pays en voie de développement.
Environnement > Dégradation > Aspect social > Pays en voie de développement.
Ressources renouvelables > Pays en voie de développement.
Rareté (Économie politique) > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Ecology.
Environmental degradation > Social aspects.
Renewable natural resources.
Social conflict.
Violence > Environmental aspects.
Knappheit
Ressourcen
Sozialer Konflikt
Umweltbelastung
Milieuvraagstuk.
Sociale conflicten.
Developing countries > Environmental conditions.
Pays en voie de développement > Conditions environnementales.
Developing countries.
Entwicklungsländer
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Aim and structure of the book
  • Key research concepts, methods, and goals
  • 2. Overview
  • The critical role of environmental resources
  • Sources of environmental scarcity
  • The importance of context
  • Pivotal countries
  • Ingenuity and adaptation
  • 3. Two centuries of debate
  • Neo-Malthusians versus economic optimists
  • The distributionist alternative
  • Thresholds, interdependence, and interactivity
  • Social friction and adaptive failure
  • Appendix. How to read a systems diagram
  • 4. Environmental scarcity
  • Three sources of scarcity
  • Factors producing scarcity
  • The physical trends of global change
  • 5. Interactions and social effects
  • Interactions
  • Social effects
  • Appendix. The causal role of environmental scarcity
  • 6. Ingenuity and adaptation
  • The nature and role of ingenuity
  • Some factors increasing the requirement for ingenuity
  • Some factors limiting the supply of ingenuity
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix. Can poor countries attain endogenous growth?
  • 7. Violence
  • Types of violent conflict
  • Four further cases
  • Urban growth and violence
  • Implications for international security
  • Appendix. Hypothesis testing and case selection
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • General readings on environmental security
  • Index.

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