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  • 1
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    Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (2010)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press
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    UID:
    gbv_738971057
    Format: Online-Ressource (272 p)
    ISBN: 9780691089799
    Content: 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 wi
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 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 ScarcityFactors 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 Selection8. Conclusions; Notes; General Readings on Environmental Security; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781400822997
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext
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    UB Potsdam
  • 2
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    Environment, Scarcity, and Violence / (1999)
    Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,
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    UID:
    edocfu_9958352637902883
    Format: 1 online resource (272 pages) : , illustrations.
    Edition: Core Textbook.
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
    Edition: System requirements: Web browser.
    Edition: Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
    ISBN: 9781400822997
    Content: 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 range of international research projects to develop a detailed model of the sources of environmental scarcity. He refers to water shortages in China, population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, and land distribution in Mexico, for example, to show that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources, the increased demand for these resources, and/or their unequal distribution. He shows that these scarcities can lead to deepened poverty, large-scale migrations, sharpened social cleavages, and weakened institutions. And he describes the kinds of violence that can result from these social effects, arguing that conflicts in Chiapas, Mexico and ongoing turmoil in many African and Asian countries, for instance, are already partly a consequence of scarcity. Homer-Dixon is careful to point out that the effects of environmental scarcity are indirect and act in combination with other social, political, and economic stresses. He also acknowledges that human ingenuity can reduce the likelihood of conflict, particularly in countries with efficient markets, capable states, and an educated populace. But he argues that the violent consequences of scarcity should not be underestimated--especially when about half the world's population depends directly on local renewables for their day-to-day well-being. In the next decades, he writes, growing scarcities will affect billions of people with unprecedented severity and at an unparalleled scale and pace. Clearly written and forcefully argued, this book will become the standard work on the complex relationship between environmental scarcities and human violence.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Figures -- , 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. , In English.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400822997
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822997
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  • 3
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    Environment, scarcity, and violence / (1999)
    Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,
    Details
    UID:
    almafu_9959227328102883
    Format: 1 online resource (272 p.)
    Edition: Core Textbook
    ISBN: 9786612457845 , 1-4008-2299-8 , 1-282-45784-5 , 1-4008-1210-0
    Content: 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 range of international research projects to develop a detailed model of the sources of environmental scarcity. He refers to water shortages in China, population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, and land distribution in Mexico, for example, to show that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources, the increased demand for these resources, and/or their unequal distribution. He shows that these scarcities can lead to deepened poverty, large-scale migrations, sharpened social cleavages, and weakened institutions. And he describes the kinds of violence that can result from these social effects, arguing that conflicts in Chiapas, Mexico and ongoing turmoil in many African and Asian countries, for instance, are already partly a consequence of scarcity. Homer-Dixon is careful to point out that the effects of environmental scarcity are indirect and act in combination with other social, political, and economic stresses. He also acknowledges that human ingenuity can reduce the likelihood of conflict, particularly in countries with efficient markets, capable states, and an educated populace. But he argues that the violent consequences of scarcity should not be underestimated--especially when about half the world's population depends directly on local renewables for their day-to-day well-being. In the next decades, he writes, growing scarcities will affect billions of people with unprecedented severity and at an unparalleled scale and pace. Clearly written and forcefully argued, this book will become the standard work on the complex relationship between environmental scarcities and human violence.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Figures -- , 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 , Issued also in print. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-08979-5
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-02794-3
    Language: English
    Subjects: Sociology
    RVK:
    MS 1700
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400822997
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822997
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