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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
Autor principal: Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sociale conflicten.
Milieuvraagstuk.
Umweltbelastung
Sozialer Konflikt
Ressourcen
Knappheit
Violence > Environmental aspects.
Social conflict.
Scarcity > Social aspects.
Renewable natural resources.
Environmental degradation > Social aspects.
Ecology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Rarete (Économie politique) > Aspect social.
Ressources renouvelables > Pays en voie de developpement.
Environnement > Degradation > Aspect social > Pays en voie de developpement.
Conflits sociaux > Pays en voie de developpement.
Violence > Aspect de l'environnement > Pays en voie de developpement.
Renewable natural resources > Developing countries.
Environmental degradation > Social aspects > Developing countries.
Social conflict > Developing countries.
Violence > Environmental aspects > Developing countries.
Entwicklungsländer
Developing countries.
Pays en voie de developpement > Conditions environnementales.
Developing countries > Environmental conditions.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
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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